Hello rake-world
Rake is a quite popular build framework, that has its strengths in the fact that it is code (no more xml), and it is very simple to get started with. Actually setting it up is a 3 step process. Make sure the path environment variable is set to point at your ironruby/bin folder....
Silverlight and IronRuby – a match made in heaven
A couple of months ago I was starting to read about IronRuby, and while thinking about what my first little pet project should be I saw a tweet from a guy who was enjoying the combination with Silverlight. I gave the idea some thought and liked the idea of using a dynamic...
MongoDB – getting better for .NET
Since my last post Rob Connery has joined the team working on MongoDB, and he recently blogged about the latest additions he has made on github . I couldn’t resist taking a look at the latest changes, and even though there is still some way to go it is nice to see the...
Ayende - the relational dragonslayer
Ayende, who most know to be one of the Guru's when talking about ORM's and by extention working with relationel databases came to a very interesting conclusion a couple of days ago when he received a phonecall. To parafrase his point in "Slaying relational dragons" in a few...
Db4o – first look
As the next step in my recent adventures into NoSQL country I decided to take a look at db4o . Shortly put I hope it will give me more than the document based databases, like Mongo that I have also been taking out for a spin. My interest in NoSQL has been kindled further than it...