21 Mar 2008
Earlier today the website went live and registrations started. What is a “Day of .NET”? And why is it happening in Cleveland? A “Day of .NET” is, as the Day of .NET website says, “a one-day conference on all things .NET organized by developers for developers.” And that last part is why it’s happening in Cleveland. A number of us have frankly been tired of nothing happening in the Cleveland/North East Ohio area, and decided to take the bull by the horns as it were.
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21 Mar 2008
Tuesday (3/18) was the Microsoft Launch event in Detroit. Being the intrepid geek I am, I decided to take a road trip and go to the event 3 hours away, rather then the one in the same town a week earlier. Madness you say? Nay, for I 
got to enjoy the good company of Corey Haines and Nate Hoellein on the way there and back as we car polled together. While leaving at 4:30am was a bit rough, the drive was worth it once we got there. I got to interact with a slew of smart people that I get to see far to rarely. Dustin Campbell has a good list of everyone I ran into there (don’t worry Dustin, your secret of feeling up Jeff at lunch is safe with me).
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15 Mar 2008
A few weeks ago Dr. Wayne Kelly posted on the IronRuby mailing list the set of libraries and methods that had to be implemented in order to perform a rubygems setup. This is an important first step towards full rails support. I volunteered to take on the task of porting the Zlib library. I thought, why not implement it in pure Ruby, that way there would be no external dependencies. It would have to be API compatible with the ruby-core Zlib implementation, so it could be used in place of the natively compiled libraries.
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13 Mar 2008
Recently I’ve been asked to make a case for using something other then MSTest, one of the arguments against using an xUnit framework was the lack of integration to Team Foundation Server. Well, I took it upon myself to show that MbUnit and NCover could perform just as well in a TeamBuild environment. Here’s how to get it all working.
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04 Mar 2008
Make yourself at home… I’m still unpacking a bit, but expect new posts very soon!
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