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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]

Something is squawking!
23 July 09 03:40 PM | CSharpener | with no comments

After a rather long ... lull ..., I'm hearing much more noise again from the (almost mythological) realm of Pearl 6 . Seems like some sort of Parrot has been squawking loudly, lately. In fact, it may have even squawked loudly enough to get me to join...

Filed under: [Languages], [Software Architecture], [WebDev], [SoftDev]

Yes, I was an Agile Manifesto signatory!
09 July 09 11:24 AM | CSharpener | 1 comment(s)

Yes, I was a relatively early signatory to the Agile Manifesto . I "signed" in the 19 May to 20 June, 2003 , time period. I did my first test-driven development (TDD) using the SUnit testing framework in the Smalltalk programming language. I was immediately...

Filed under: [Software Architecture], [Agile Development], [WebDev], [SoftDev], [TDD]

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]

Hot off the press! Google will develop a new operating system!
08 July 09 10:58 AM | CSharpener | with no comments

Introducing the Google Chrome OS I can feel the trembling from Redmond from here in Southern California! :)

Filed under: [Software Architecture], [Articles], [WebDev], [SoftDev], [General], [GoogleDev], [Google]

New platform grows up! Google Apps is out of Beta!
08 July 09 10:40 AM | CSharpener | with no comments

On The Official Google Blog , Google has announced that Google Apps is now out of beta . One important observation for software developers is that Google Apps will now cost you. No more free ride! While you can try it for free, it costs $50 per user per...

Filed under: [Software Architecture], [WebDev], [SoftDev], [GoogleDev], [Google]

[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]

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]

Time to get busy again!
11 February 09 01:26 PM | CSharpener | with no comments

Well! I've let this blog sit too long without taking care of it. I'm very busy, these days, on a number of different levels. But lately, I've started doing some work and research on Open Source GIS systems and on SharePoint development, so you should...

Filed under: [Software Architecture], [WebDev], [SoftDev]

New Office 2007 Data Mining Add-ins!
23 January 08 02:32 PM | CSharpener | with no comments

Here is a cool article on The SQL Server 2005 Data Mining Add-ins for Office 2007 , some great new business intelligence tools for Excel 2007.

Filed under: [SoftDev], [BusinessIntelligence], [Datamining], [Datawarehouse]