Episode 2 – Chat with Shay “IronShay” Friedman
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Will and Mike chat with Shay “IronShay” Friedman, an IronRuby MVP and the author of “IronRuby Unleashed”.
Notes:
- There are 3 IronRuby MVP’s: Ivan Porto Carrero, Michael Letterle
Shay Friedman – http://ironshay.com
Michael Letterle – http://blog.prokrams.com
Ivan Porto Carrero – http://flanders.co.nz/
- Rake is a great tool for building .NET, particularly using Albacore
- Albacore
http://albacorebuild.net
Derick Bailey – http://derickbailey.lostechies.com/
The Nature of Lisp – http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html
Transitioning from NAnt to Rake – http://codebetter.com/blogs/david_laribee/archive/2008/10/17/transitioning-from-nant-to-rake.aspx
- JRuby, Jetty, Apache
JRuby – http://jruby.org
Jetty – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetty_(web_server)
Apache – http://httpd.apache.org/
- Jimmy Schmenti
http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com/
Microsoft DLR program manager
- The importance of REPL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read-eval-print_loop
- Dynamic C#
http://www.weirdlover.com/2010/05/26/c-dynamics-the-cool-new-thing-to-crap-on/
- Compiler as a Service
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2210734/what-is-the-state-of-the-c-compiler-as-a-service
- Tools
RubyMine – http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby
SharpDevelop – http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/
- Origin of the “Iron” prefix
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1194309/why-are-many-ports-of-languages-to-net-prefixed-with-iron
… and why is python named python and ruby named ruby?
http://geekswithblogs.net/brians/archive/2008/06/14/122861.aspx
- Silly names
cucumber – http://cukes.info
nokogiri
http://nokogiri.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokogiri
hotgazpacho – http://hotgazpacho.org
- Origin of IronPython
Jim Hugunin – http://hugunin.net/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/hugunin/archive/2006/09/05/741605.aspx
- For Want of a Nail
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Want_of_a_Nail_(proverb)
- PowerBuilder
http://www.lannigan.org/powersoft_powerbuilder_history.htm
- Objective-C History (kind of)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C#History