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Writespace Updated with Command Line Version and Some IronRuby Fun by jdanforth

I had a few minutes to fix a few issues and release an updated version (1.3) of Writespace – the full screen editing environment addin for Word. So what’s new? I removed the annoying illuminated animation for row and column when typing. Added F4 shortcut...
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IronRuby 0.3 Released by jdanforth

Jimmy Schemento just blogged : I’m pleased to announce a new release of IronRuby : IronRuby 0.3 ! Staying true to our “Conference-driven development schedule,” this release is in conjunction with MIX ‘09 , where Silverlight 3 Beta and ASP.NET MVC 1.0...
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IronRuby with ASP.NET MVC by jdanforth

Now that ASP.NET MVC preview 4 is out, Phil Haack did as promised and made available a working prototype of IronRuby + ASP.NET MVC integration . He wrote: Now that Preview 4 is out, I revisited the prototype and got it working again. I use the term working...
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IronRuby Getting Started Links by jdanforth

Justin Etheredge wrote a detailed step-by-step blog post about how to download, build and get IronRuby up and running which is really good. There is also the new wiki on the official IronRuby web site ( www.ironruby.com ) which covers the same topic and...
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ASP.NET MVC Supporting IronRuby and IronPython by jdanforth

I just picked up this answer to a comment on ScottGu's blog : I believe we will be showing using ASP.NET MVC with IronRuby and IronPython later this week at TechEd.  I don't think we've finalized what the tooling support will be - but you will be...
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[Ruby] IronRuby Running Unmodified Rails by jdanforth

I just saw this interesting twitter entry from John Lam : I've also seen messages on the IronRuby mailing list like these: We're just in a big time crunch before RailsConf so we're pretty well implementing anything that we need to in order to get Rails...
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What Happened to the Rails Website? by jdanforth

I was going to look at some of the Ruby on Rails screencasts on www.rubyonrails.org site, but someone must have forgot to pay the right amount of money in time or something :)   I'm sure things will be working fine by the time you read this blog...
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Try Ruby in the Browser by jdanforth

There's a pretty awesome online "Ruby in your browser" tutorial that you could try. It has a built in Ruby console and everything is interactive. It's takes 15-30 minutes or so to go through, and it's good. Someone put a whole lot of effort...
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A .NET Guy Looking at Some Ruby (Part 2) by jdanforth

This is me continuing scribbling down notes as I go along relearning lost Ruby skills and at the same time comparing the Ruby syntax and way of writing code to .NET. In my previous post I very briefly went through the basics of variables, loops, iterators...

A .NET Guy Looking at Some Ruby by jdanforth

I’m thinking it would be nice to relearn the basics of Ruby (which seems to gain more and more popularity) and compare it to some of the dynamic features .NET 3.5 has been blessed with. I’m also interested in where the Microsoft version of...
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