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1	Friday C# Quiz: Know Your Closures Although I've vowed not to post about closures anymore, I can't help but post one more quiz. I know Friday is mostly over for many of my readers, but there are still a few time zones left. Without downloading Microsoft Visual C# 2008 Express Edition ...	May 2, 2008
2	It's A Typo (Was: James Gosling: Silverlight Kicks Ass) James Gosling: As much as I love the Mac's eye candy, it really hasn't been keeping up as a developer's machine - their attention has clearly been elsewhere. Meanwhile, the Solaris folks have made huge strides in Solaris's usability on a laptop with ...	Oct 15, 2007
3	The .NET Meets Java Panel The .NET Meets Java panel at the St. Louis .NET User Group meeting yesterday was interesting but did not change too many people's minds, in my opinion. There are two kinds of people there: the regular .NET User Group members who are VB6-turned-VB.NET ...	Sep 25, 2007
4	Local Event: .NET Meets Java The St. Louis .NET Users Group will feature a Panel of Local Experts: .NET meets Java event for this month's meeting: St. Louis DotNet User Group: Are you a Java person and have always wondered what this .NET thing is? Are you a .NET person and neve...	Sep 24, 2007
5	Flex 3 SDK and Silverlight: Is Java Applet An Idea Whose Time Has Come? Twelve years after the original Java applet in the browser announcement, the march to a richer GUI runtime in the browser seems to be back on. On the heels of Adobe announcing the plan to open source its Flex 3 SDK, Microsoft entered the race with an ...	May 1, 2007
6	Mono's Response To XPF/XAML, Flash and XPF/E Miguel de Icaza: Today we are announcing the response to Microsoft's WPF/XAML, a response to Flash and WPF/E. A cross-platform GUI toolkit (supports Windows, MacOS and Linux and is easily ported to new platforms) written entirely in managed code and 1...	Apr 16, 2007
7	Will It Be JRuby vs. IronPython? On the heels of Microsoft's release of IronPython 1.0 comes the news that Sun has hired the two primary JRuby developers. I don't know if Sun intended it, but the juxtaposition of these two news item gives the effect that the two managed execution env...	Sep 7, 2006
8	IronPython 1.0 Released Jim Hugunin: I’m extremely happy to announce that we have released IronPython 1.0 today! ... IronPython is about bringing together two worlds. The key value in IronPython is that it is both a true implementation of Python and is seamlessly integrated...	Sep 6, 2006
9	Joost: A Simple Networking Library Justin Michel came to the OCI internal Java lunch today to present the Java version of his Joost networking library. First person is Justin now. I started to work on this C++ communications library four or five years ago. I worked on several projects...	Jul 21, 2006
10	Joost: A Simple Networking Library Today's OCI C++ lunch features Justin Michel presenting his own networking library—Joost. It abstracts away many of the lower level details and makes network programming simple and correct. The Joost abstraction retains only a few concepts: add...	Jun 27, 2006
11	Free .NET To Come To Fedora Core 5 The following two pieces of news will probably prove more important in the future than they seem right now. Miguel de Icaza: I just woke up to the announcement over at Chris Blizzard's blog (from Planet Gnome) that Mono today was included in Rawhide,...	Jan 10, 2006
12	Things To Look Into Continuing my tradition of making a list of things that I ought to know. Here's a few things that I think merits some deeper examination: JBoss Seam The announcement is here. The product page is here. The documentation is here. More info here. ...	Sep 22, 2005