I mentioned that ActivePython is a .NET language, as IronPython is. But the command:
>>> from System.Windows.Forms import *
results in an errormessage: Importerror: No module named System.Windows.Forms.
Jan 042005
Jan 042005
Apress is giving away the ebook “Dissecting a C# Application: Inside SharpDevelop”. And if you don’t want to receive their newsletter, you don’t even need to supply an e-mail-address. The download is split into two parts: the book itself (3.8MByte PDF) and the accompanying source-code (5.9Mbyte ZIP).
Jan 042005
It sure is a simple language to learn. Thanks to all the people that blogged about it. Very usable language. Simple (and dymanic) semantics. To be used as scripting or as standalone programming language. And IronPython (as well as ActivePython) are .NET languages!
Jan 022005
Our Christmas-holiday was well spent. We changed the three bedrooms on the first (for the US-people, the second floor, we don’t count groundlevel) floor. The master bedroom looks twice as big now, my computerroom is now half as big, and the guestroom is now in the former computerroom. Now all we have to do is to get rid of the packaging of all the IKEA-stuff we bought! It’s a massive pile of paper now.
Jan 022005
A little late, but I wish you all a happy and healthy 2005!
Dec 272004
Don’t forget: as of January 1st, 2005, Microsoft will no longer support Windows NT 4.0. No more pay-per-incident, Premier or online support. NOTHING. See this page.
Dec 272004
I got LotR: The Return of the King for Christmas. Now I have all three episodes in the special 4-DVD edition. Mind you: RotK runs for about 3 hours in the cinema, at home you will have to have beverages and crips for about 4 hours!
Dec 232004
If you download and register Omea Reader before January 1st, you can get a license for free. Omea Reader is an RSS reader, and I guess this release falls in the category “abandonware” or “orphanware”: software houses releasing old software for free or as open source. To get into the picture, since they are supporting the Open Source / Free Software initiative(s). Or to get rid of things they don’t need/want anymore. As a sort of self-endorsed Escrow.
Anyway, Jetbrains has a new product Omea Reader Pro, so their non-pro version is now to be had for free.
Dec 222004
If you are a serious developer, you are testing your products against different environments. But that’s difficult. You can’t have IE 4, IE 5 and IE 6 on one system, or you have to choose between Windows 2000 or Windows XP. Or between Windows 2000 server and Windows 2003 server. And why does that stupid client still wants NT4 support?
It sounds like a commercial, but if you have VMWare Workstation, these problems are solved. I bought it in the 3.x days, when VMWare started to be a REAL alternative to a multi-OS-boot. I skipped version 4, because I didn’t need the new features. But there is a beta for version 5 now. It supports all the latest OS-es out there and a few more 😉 The beta is public, but if you’re not a VMWare customer yet, you need to sign up. Go to this page for instructions.
Dec 222004
Commercial products Visual Studio and Borland Delphi/JBuilder, and free Sharpdevelop have a strong competitor in the IDE-market: X-Develop. Currently only available as preview download, X-Develop promises to be a very strong competitor. Already supported languages are Java, J# (up to 2.0 including generics), C# (up to 2.0 including generics), VB.NET, but it’s language plug-in API opens the door for others as well.
One very interesting (Java) feature is the back-in-time debugger, that allows to step through the code up to the point where things went bonkers.
Developers taking their work back home might be glad to hear that X-Develop is fully compatible with VS.NET SLN-files, including VS.NET 2005.
X-Develop is created by the same people that bring us CodeGuide, an IDE for Java and JSP.