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Re: The Lounge Advertising Network

blowmage — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:27:28 -0000

I don't know why you were surprised C# would win by such a huge margin. .NET devs are language bigots the same as Java, Ruby, and Python devs. I'm slowly becoming convinced polyglots are unicorns.

Re: 18: Talking with Jeremy Miller about Alt.Net

blowmage — Fri, 01 May 2009 11:05:18 -0000

Hi Dave, thanks for your comment. To be fair, we've gotten 18 episodes in before addressing the "What is Alt.NET?" question, even though this is a hotly discussed topic and generally the very first thing newcomers ask. This was intentional. I decided the best way to explain what Alt.NET is was to show it, and that's what we've tried to do.

I also tried to make each episode accessible to newcomers while still remaining entertaining for those familiar with the subject at hand. This isn't always easy. If you have a better way then perhaps you should contact James about hosting a few episodes instead of sounding like a troll.

Re: http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/posts/jamesbritt/2009-04-13-solving-the-problem.rc.html

blowmage — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:38:46 -0000

James, I _really_ like this approach. I still haven't recovered my Mephisto install, and I've been looking to move to something akin to Webby or Jekyl. But I haven't found a decent way to get them to generate the tag pages from my entry's metadata and was about to roll my own solution. I love the idea of using a post-commit hook to generate the site. Very clever.

Re: 18: Talking with Jeremy Miller about Alt.Net

blowmage — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:00:36 -0000

I really liked Jeremy's point that the Alt.NET approach is really the mainstream in other communities like Java and Ruby and Python.

Re: MVC Storefront Part 26: Finis : Rob Conery

blowmage — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:37:08 -0000

Thanks for the series Rob! It has been a great shared reference when discussing various Alt.NET topics, and also a validation for them. I've enjoyed the journey of you caring about your craft. Well done.

Re: Alt.NET Podcast Episode 15: Domain Driven Design

blowmage — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:59:30 -0000

Thanks Peter. I'd love to be back on from time to time, but that'll really be up to James Avery.

In the mean time, you can always subscribe to my Rubiverse Podcast if you just can't get enough of my soothing and angelic voice. :)

http://rubiverse.com/

Re: Alt.NET Podcast Episode 15: Domain Driven Design

blowmage — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:35:45 -0000

Thanks Jeremy. I had a blast doing it, but figured someone actually currently doing .NET development might do a better job.

On the bright side, this probably means there will be much less Ruby references in the future! ☺

Re: Alt.NET Podcast Episode 12: More jQuery in ASP.NET

blowmage — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:29:32 -0000

Feel free to link to the podcast, but we ask that you do not embed the podcast directly.

Re: Announcing the Disqus API

blowmage — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:34:31 -0000

Really? Awesome! Thanks guys!

Re: West Coast Logic

blowmage — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:35:38 -0000

What does "osim" mean?

Re: Announcing the Disqus API

blowmage — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:14:32 -0000

Any chance of adding "parent_post" to the "create_post" API method? Right now it looks like you cannot nest the comments as you add them.

Re: Alt.NET Podcast Episode 11: jQuery in ASP.NET

blowmage — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:10:52 -0000

Hi geokaps, I don't think we will get to those topics on the podcast soon, but I can give you my thoughts.

1. I don't think that "Corporate IT" will move to ASP.NET MVC until it is part of the next Visual Studio, and then the adoption will depend on your corporate policies. For instance, the company I recently left was still on .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 with no plans to upgrade anytime soon.

2. I see ASP.NET MVC/jQuery serving a very different market than Silverlight 2.0. There will assuredly be some synergy between them, but they are clearly separate technologies. I don't expect one to win at the expense at the other.

Re: Comments Are Now Enabled - { |one, step, back| }

blowmage — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:06:47 -0000

Hey cool! I am planning on moving my blog comments to Disqus as well. I'm even working on a gem to help import all my old comments.

I remember Rublog very well! It was my first Ruby-powered blog engine, and outside of the less-beautiful URLs it was probably the best. But I'm currently planning on moving from Mephisto to a static site using Webby. I have a couple more tweaks to make to Webby before I move though.

Re: Alt.NET Podcast Episode 11: jQuery in ASP.NET

blowmage — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:57:13 -0000

Thanks. I think everyone on the panel did a great job. Can't wait to get part two released!

(I fixed the link. The parenthesis confused Textile.)

Re: Prototype Framework is a Javascript Extension, Not Just a Library

blowmage — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:34:03 -0000

I think Prototype's philosophy is similar to Ruby. Meaning, you build the language up to meet your needs. It is much more common in Ruby to send a closure to the .each method than it is to use the built-in iterators like for. As long as you work this way Prototype works fantastically well.

Part of why I think much of the hype and excitement moved from Prototype to jQuery is that jQuery is more aligned with the JavaScript language. It is less interested in adding Ruby idioms as it is using JavaScript's “good parts”. jQuery almost begs to be unobtrusive, and the typical use Prototype isn't.

I've used and like both. I'm not sure which is better. They are just different.

Re: Disqus and Graffiti : Simpable

blowmage — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:10:38 -0000

People still use IE?

Re: Alt.NET Podcast Episode 10: Object-Oriented Programming in Ruby

blowmage — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:08:01 -0000

If you create a Disqus account you can simply edit your previous comment instead of posting another comment to clarify. Just sayin'... :)

Re: Alt.NET Podcast Episode 10: Object-Oriented Programming in Ruby

blowmage — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:06:51 -0000

I think the first three Prag screencasts do a good job of covering this. Although this idea is throughout all episodes so far.

http://www.pragprog.com/screencasts/v-dtrubyom/...

Re: Alt.NET Podcast Episode 10: Object-Oriented Programming in Ruby

blowmage — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:00:37 -0000

Hi Chris, I'm afraid I don't quite understand what you are asking. Can you elaborate? Feel free to send me an email and maybe I'll post something up on my blog.

In a very small nutshell, one of the differences is that you can act on an object and not just a class. If you wanted to bill a customer in a non-existent C# project you would probably do the DDD thing and create a service to perform this action for you. This would probably not be part of the Customer class, because you have to guard against polluting your classes in C#.

In Ruby, you can act directly on the Customer object you want to bill.

class Customer
attr_accessor :name, :age;
end

mike = Customer.new
mike.name = 'Mike Moore;
mike.age = 35

def mike.bill_for_services_performed
puts 'YOU CAN HAS MY MONEY!'
end

mike.bill_for_services_performed #=> YOU CAN HAS MY MONEY!

Granted, this is probably not how you want to implement this, but it does show one way you can focus on object instead of the class using Ruby. Even more, the classes themselves are objects in Ruby, and you can manipulate classes just like any other object. I recommend watching Dave Thomas' screencasts.

Re: Is Microsoft Buying the Community?

blowmage — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:31:40 -0000

Yeah, I spoke at the Utah Code Camp. Here are my slides from that.

http://blowmage.com/2008/3/10/ironruby-csharp-a...

Re: Is Microsoft Buying the Community?

blowmage — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:53:05 -0000

Switch. Don't fear the change, just do it.

Re: Is Microsoft Buying the Community?

blowmage — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:51:35 -0000

(Hey Emad, please remove this duplicate comment.)

Re: Introducing the New DISQUS

blowmage — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:16:08 -0000

Either one I wrote myself, or Mephisto. I suppose I could stand up a local WordPress instance, import all my comments into that, and use that to import to Disqus. But my long term goal is to generate my site from local static files and use Disqus to moderate the comments. So what I'd really like is an API where I can import my existing comments.

Re: Introducing the New DISQUS

blowmage — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:01:59 -0000

Any word on allowing import of comments from a platform that is not WordPress? I am specifically interested in importing comments from sites that are not on one of the major platforms.

Re: Alt.NET Podcast Episode 7: Object-Relational Mapping

blowmage — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:19:53 -0000

Hi Frans, you are correct. I am still planning on a future podcast where I want to get many folks from the different ORM tools together to discuss things, but it will have to wait for a bit. I'll email you separately about this.