Dynamic language slowdown at Microsoft?

By tim, on August 7th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Jimmy Schementi, until recently a Program Manager at Microsoft working on IronRuby, has posted about why he is leaving the company; and in doing so answers a question I posed a few months back, Why F# rather than IronPython in Visual Studio 2010?

When my manager asked me, “what else would you want to

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August 7th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: microsoft, professional, ruby, visual studio | Leave a comment

Future of Web Apps cheers the independent Web

By tim, on October 2nd, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

The Future of Web Applications conference in London is always a thought-provoking event, thanks to its diversity, independence and character. That said, it is a frustrating creature at times. The frustration on day 1 was the barely functional wi-fi, which ruined a promising interactive application called HelloApp, built with ASP.NET MVC. HelloApp would have

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October 2nd, 2009 | Category: .net, adobe, cloud computing, facebook, flash, javascript, microsoft, open source, ruby, software development, twitter, visual studio, web authoring | 3 comments

Programming language trends: Flash up, AJAX down?

By tim, on March 4th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

I’m fascinated by the O’Reilly reports on the state of the computer book market in 2008, particularly the one relating to programming languages.

Notable facts and speculations:

C# is the number one language, overtaking Java (which is down 12%), and was consistently so throughout 2008. Although the .NET platform is no longer new and

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March 4th, 2009 | Category: .net, adobe, google, iphone, microsoft, ruby, silverlight, software development, web authoring | 5 comments

Salesforce.com linking with Facebook, Amazon

By tim, on November 3rd, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

I’m at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, where Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, and co-founder Parker Harris, are presenting new features in the force.com platform.

The first is a built-in ability to publish your Force.com data as a public web site. The service is currently in “developer preview” and set for full release

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November 3rd, 2008 | Category: amazon, facebook, java, php, ruby, salesforce.com, web authoring | Leave a comment

Future of Web Apps 2008 Day One: Web is DVD, desktop VHS

By tim, on October 10th, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

I’m at London’s dreary Excel centre for Carson’s Future of Web Apps conference, just before the opening of day two. Yesterday was a mixed bag; good when speakers talk technical; bad when they descend into marketing. The origins of the conference are as a start-up incubator; developers and entrepreneurs getting together to see what’s

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October 10th, 2008 | Category: google, open source, php, ruby, software, software development, web authoring | One comment

Ruby interpreter flaws make the case for JRuby?

By tim, on June 24th, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

The official Ruby blog reports:

Multiple vulnerabilities in Ruby may lead to a denial of service (DoS) condition or allow execution of arbitrary code.

More discussion here and here. The community is fixing the problems energetically; but they do appear serious, and some are struggling with compatibility issues.

Since these seem to be bugs

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June 24th, 2008 | Category: .net, ruby, security, software development, web authoring | One comment