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I work at Pelco. The opinions expressed here are my own, and neither Pelco nor any other party necessarily agrees with them.
Harry Pierson: "We've hired a few people around here recently (including me obviously). However, if you have a burning desire to work on IronPython (or IronRuby) and Visual Studio, we're still hiring" - This is exactly what's needed to make IronPython and IronRuby really slick! Complete integration into the Visual Studio IDE. Make them first class citizens.
Labels: .NET, DLR, Microsoft, Python, Ruby
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rubydoes.net: "There are other people that have blogged about silverlight and IronRuby before, it might be a good idea to check them out as well." - Tagged for later.
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Vorby is a Google AppEngine Movie Quote site! How cool is that? Now I can link to it for Movie Line of the Week answers and you can hear the spoken word.
Very nice!
Labels: Development, Python
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For some strange reason I started thinking about the Chandler Project this week and then I discover it's in a bit of trouble. That's too bad. Some folks are blaming it on Python? That's weird. I don't really think the choice of language would be a factor. I'd tend to agree with James Robertson, it comes down to Management allowing it to get out of control. You have to ship product, and I don't mean ship something riddled with bugs. I mean you have to sometimes pull back on your desired feature set and put that on the list for the next go 'round.
Ned Batchelder: "This is too bad, it was an ambitious and idealistic project, perhaps too much so. I don't really know what was going on over there."
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Import This: "Back in April 2006, I wrote a HOWTO for installing Django on Windows (link). Since that time, that guide has become quite popular and linked from various places. Unfortunately some of the information in it has become outdated and so it was time to update it." - Ya know, I'm a bit surprised Django doesn't support MS-SQL Server? Anywho, this is something worth reading if you plan on working in a Windows environment.
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The Server Side.NET: "Microsoft is not dead, and it is not dying. Rather, the company's decline in market share is a runny nose." - I can definitely see this happening with the focus clearly on web based stuff. If you're doing client side applications Windows is pretty hard to beat, unless you're doing Mac applications, but the server side has a ton of dynamic language support with frameworks that allow folks to be highly productive and it's all free; Ruby + Rails, Python + Django, etc... On Windows we have those two plus we have ASP.NET and [insert your favorite .NET language here], but is that really an advantage? In short No. The real answer is Yes and No. For me it would be easier to use ASP.NET and C# because I already have experience with ASP.NET and C# is super easy to transition to because of my C/C++ background. Sure I could pickup Ruby and/or Python, but I'd need a bit of time to become as proficient with it as I am with C/C++. Who knows in the end it may be well worth my time to be a Ruby/Python dude, only time will tell.
Hey, have you looked at C#'s upcoming LINQ implementation? Check out Scott Guthrie's series on LINQ; Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. It's going to make life more productive for the C# developer, that for sure.
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