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June 2007 - Posts

Supporting Free/Open Source Software

My previous post about ScrewTurn Wiki reminded me to send them a donation via PayPal.  After years of just using "free" stuff, I now advocate that we all support the "free" products we personally use. 

That extends to commercial projects.  Shouldn't every project that uses any free/OS software make a donation for each product used?
 

Posted Monday, June 18, 2007 12:08 PM by Alex Hoffman | with no comments

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From OpenWiki to ScrewTurn Wiki

Since 2002 I have used OpenWiki as a means of collecting, sharing and communicating information with development team members and stakeholders.  It was fast, reliable and had some surprising features.  I never really found an alternative that "felt right" to me.

But I've now moved on to ScrewTurn Wiki (free - GPL).  Has just that right combination of performance, features and simplicity!
 

Posted Monday, June 18, 2007 11:39 AM by Alex Hoffman | 2 comment(s)

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Number of Types/Methods in IronPython

Thomas and Oren recently showed a couple of scripts in PowerShell and Boo respectively that count the number of types and methods in mscorlib.

Here is one possible implementation in IronPython ...

import System
typeCount = methodCount = 0
mscorlib = System.Type.GetType('System.Object').Assembly
for t in mscorlib.GetTypes():
    typeCount += 1
    methodCount += t.GetMethods().Length
print "Types: %s | Methods: %s" % (typeCount, methodCount)

On my system (Vista) this script will output ...

Types: 2318 | Methods: 27677

I wonder, is there a more efficient way to implement this in IronPython?

Posted Tuesday, June 05, 2007 11:20 AM by Alex Hoffman | 4 comment(s)

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