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Coding Cool with Fan!
10 August 09 11:18 AM | CSharpener | 1 comment(s)

The most exciting new programming language I have seen in quite some time is the new Fan language . I recommend reading Why Fan and taking the Tour to have get a quick grasp of what Fan offers. Then Download Fan and StartHere ! Why am I so enthusiastic...

Filed under: [.NET General], [Languages], [Software Architecture], [SoftDev], [JavaScript], [CLR], [Ruby], [Smalltalk], [.NET], [Fan]

SmallScript is dead! Long live SmallScript!
08 July 09 11:36 AM | CSharpener | 1 comment(s)

In a previous post, Before it becomes famous , I posted about S#, or SmallScript, a SmallTalk variant that was being designed that was supposed to have a version that might have worked on .NET. Now, it seems that project has pretty much died out. David...

Filed under: [.NET General], [Languages], [Tools], [WebDev], [SoftDev], [Smalltalk], [.NET]

Your Company's Next Senior Software Architect???
02 July 09 04:08 PM | CSharpener | with no comments

I would *love* to join a new and exciting software development team that has a single-minded focus on delivering high-quality software products to great customers. Perhaps that team is working in your company! Please have a look at my resume (http://weblogs...

Filed under: [.NET C#], [Languages], [Software Architecture], [Human Factor], [SoftDev], [General], [ASP.NET], [TDD], [GameDev], [.NET]

[.NET][Articles] Single-Sign-On (SSO) for SharePoint 2007 (MOSS)
14 November 07 08:47 AM | CSharpener | 1 comment(s)

I recently discovered this very interesting article that covers the basics of configuring and using SSO with Microsoft SharePoint 2007, especially when creating views and forms on external SQL Server databases using Windows authentication. This is a very...

Filed under: [.NET General], [Software Architecture], [Database], [Articles], [SoftDev], [ASP.NET], [.NET]

[.NET C#] Unified C# 3.0 Specification
12 September 07 08:34 AM | CSharpener | with no comments

The C# team at csharp-online.net has a download link for a consolidated document presenting the Unified C# 3.0 Specification , which brings together all prior C# specs with the latest version. It weighs in at slightly over 500 pages, but looks to be the...

Filed under: [.NET General], [.NET C#], [Languages], [Reference], [SoftDev], [.NET]

[Database] Reporting Services Architecture
12 September 07 08:16 AM | CSharpener | with no comments

There is an excellent article on Reporting Services Architecture for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services (SSRS) at csharp-online.net . There is a great diagram on the first page. Reading the article from front to back is a little difficult, as...

Filed under: [.NET General], [.NET C#], [Software Architecture], [Database], [Articles], [SoftDev], [.NET]

[Languages] Ruby is coming along on .NET
20 June 06 11:53 AM | CSharpener | 1 comment(s)

I have been checking out a couple of newer implementations of Ruby for .NET. Each offers something different and it is obvious that we are getting closer to having a really usable variant of Ruby on .NET in the near future. Here are my current favorite...

Filed under: [Languages], [Tools], [WebDev], [SoftDev], [Ruby], [.NET]

[Languages] A Smalltalk Compiler for .NET - #Smalltalk
20 June 06 11:39 AM | CSharpener | with no comments

A fortuitous incident led me to review the .NET Languages website, which has a great list of .NET languages on its Resources page. There, I found out about a new-to-me compiler, #Smalltalk , that implements Smalltalk to run on .NET. The #Smalltalk system...

Filed under: [Languages], [Tools], [SoftDev], [Smalltalk], [.NET]

Before it becomes famous
07 February 03 05:01 PM | CSharpener | 1 comment(s)

[July 2009 Update: the links originally given in this article have gone "dark."] Recently I noticed that SmallScript.org changed the name of its new SmallScript language to S#. S# (SmallScript) is a .NET-based Smalltalk derivative that is just on the...

Filed under: [Languages], [SoftDev], [Smalltalk], [.NET]