07 April 2003

FlashForward Coverage : O'Reillynet.com. - via mesh on mx Bruce Epstein has posted some summaries of each day of last months FlashForward conference in San Francisco. Of particular interest was his summary of Tim O'Reilly's session titled "Watching Alpha Geeks". Day 1 Coverage Day 2 Coverage Day 3 Coverage... One thing got me about what Bruce says here. How can Macromedia and Flash developers avoid being relegated to a side canyon of history? How can they compete with Microsoft, even as the .NET initiative pauses if not stumbles? Pauses maybe, stumble I don't think so.  What on earth Macromedia and Flash developers have to worry about .NET concerns me a little. Don't Macromedia have MX products for .NET? Anyone?.... 5:35:03 PM    comment []

SharpReader conquers the universe. - via Sam Gentile's Blog It seems that many have pointed this out already, but it's worth mentioning again. SharpReader rocks. Get it. I only hope Luke builds some extensibility in. I'd love to be able to build my web front-end on top of this and, as Scott mentioned, post to my weblog through it. [Loosely Coupled] Ok, everyone is on this bandwagon, and for good reason. It rocks! It's fast as all hell and the threads feature is killer. Scott, what do we have to do to make this the blog client for .NET Weblogs  instead? I'd switch in a second if we could post back and be integrated in. Lets make it happen. Lots and lots of folks mentioning this. It looks pretty cool, its free and if you have a lot of feeds to manage looks like it does a good job. Not got a good a RSS agger yet? Give this one a blast. 5:29:31 PM    comment []

S# and Ruby As far as I know, there is currently no Ruby.NET solution available. This is something that various Ruby folks (incl. Matz) have been discussing with us for some time as a natural extension to our S# work. The features required to implement the Ruby language syntax and semantics exist within the S# language implementation for both .NET and the S# native VM/EE runtime AOS platform. We will shortly be releasing S#.NET and will be exploring the re-use of its .NET dynamic language (reflected-jit) implementation technology for solutions to implementation of languages such as PHP, Ruby, VBScript/VB, and JScript 2.0. This is very interesting to hear, I wonder what the Parrot folks make of this. I also wonder if Ruby may be ahead of Python and Perl in running (with out the performance hang up) on the CLR. 5:21:35 PM    comment []

More S# Info Some background info on S# 5:16:32 PM    comment []