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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]

[Tools] New version of UMLet available (9.1)
02 July 09 09:57 PM | CSharpener | with no comments

A newer version of UMLet is available. This free UML editor, UMLet , is my "UML as sketch" tool of choice! You can read *about* a very interesting article on the rationale behind UMLet here (note, however, that the article's authors require payment for...

Filed under: [Software Architecture], [Tools], [SoftDev], [UML]

[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]

[Tools] Unit Testing for JavaScript
30 May 06 09:09 AM | CSharpener | with no comments

The entire development community probably already knows about this, but I just discovered that an Open Source unit testing framework exists for JavaScript. The framework is JsUnit and it is a port from JUnit . If you find yourself doing extensive work...

Filed under: [Reference], [Tools], [SoftDev], [TDD], [JavaScript]

[.NET General] O Happy Day!
20 April 06 10:25 PM | CSharpener | 1 comment(s)

This is just a "happy day" announcement that Microsoft has decided to make all of the Visual Studio .NET Express Editions permanently free ! Thank you!

Filed under: [.NET General], [.NET C#], [Software Architecture], [Database], [Tools], [WebDev], [SoftDev], [General], [ASP.NET], [WebServices], [GameDev]

[Graphics] An awesome Blender 3D Tutorial Wikibook!
28 February 06 09:59 AM | CSharpener | 3 comment(s)

Blender 3D: Noob to Pro is a great, free tutorial for the free, open source Blender 3D graphics modeling and rendering software. I still cannot believe how little press and attention Blender 3D gets. To me, it's the coolest gift the open source community...

Filed under: [Graphics], [Reference], [Tools], [SoftDev], [General]

[Languages] LSharp, a new .NET Lisp-like scripting language
27 February 06 08:04 AM | CSharpener | with no comments

From the ancestral line of Lisp, we now have another new scripting language for .NET. LSharp "uses a Lisp dialect similar to Arc." LSharp is Open Source (GPL). More information is available on Rob Blackwell's Web Log .

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

[Languages] Zonnon, a new .NET language
27 February 06 07:58 AM | CSharpener | with no comments

Descending from the heritage of Pascal, Modula-2, and Oberon, Zonnon is a new language for .NET. According to the Zonnon website, "It retains an emphasis on simplicity, clear syntax and separation of concerns whilst focusing on concurrency and ease of...

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

[Database] New! IBM DB2 Express-C - Free!
08 February 06 01:57 PM | CSharpener | with no comments

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! The venerable IBM has set a somewhat simplified version of it's workhorse database, DB2, free. Check out IBM DB2 Express-C for Linux and Windows .

Filed under: [Database], [Tools], [SoftDev]