Getting Started With IronRuby And RSpec, Part 1This article is based on a prerelease version of IronRuby. All information is subject to change.This article discusses: Ruby and Duck Typing Ruby and the Microsoft .NET Framework Using IronRuby and RSpec This article uses the following technologies: IronRuby“That’s not what we asked for!” I’m sure most developers [...]
Tag Archives: Started
.NET Interop: Getting Started With IronRuby And RSpec, Part 1
Posted by james on October 14, 2011
0 comments
Don’t Get Me Started: Mars and Venus
Posted by james on October 4, 2011
0 comments
A client of mine was scratching his head over his wife’s behavior when he’d taken her shopping for a new netbook. “Look at this, honey,” he had told her. “A dual-core processor. How’d they get one into this little box? Wow, what a neato heat sink.” “That’s nice, dear,” she said to him. “But will [...]
Cloud Data: Getting Started with SQL Azure Development
Posted by james on September 24, 2011
0 comments
Microsoft Windows Azure offers several choices for data storage. These include Windows Azure storage and SQL Azure. You may choose to use one or both in your particular project. Windows Azure storage currently contains three types of storage structures: tables, queues and blobs.SQL Azure is a relational data storage service in the cloud. Some of [...]
Mobile Apps: Getting Started with Windows Phone Development Tools
Posted by james on September 22, 2011
0 comments
Like many of you, I’ve spent the past year or so inundated by a slew of post-apocalyptic, Terminator-esque ads telling me what Droid Does. I’ve hummed along with the T-Mobile My Touch commercials. I’ve read articles about how many apps Apple has sold for the iPhone.Unlike many of you, I’ve also spent the past year [...]
Don’t Get Me Started: The Human Touch
Posted by james on September 16, 2011
0 comments
The screenshot below shows the movable, dockable main menu bar, a so-called “feature” that appeared in Microsoft Office Word 97 and departed with the menu in Office Word 2007. Have you ever moved the main menu because you wanted to? Have you ever seen, or even heard of, anyone doing that? You haven’t, and neither [...]
Don’t Get Me Started: Turn! Turn! Turn!
Posted by james on August 29, 2011
0 comments
I was listening to Pandora.com the other day, and its algorithms decided to play me the Byrds classic (1965) folk-rock song “Turn! Turn! Turn!” I know you’ll recognize some of its lyrics: “To everything, there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven. A time to be born, a time to die; [...]
Don’t Get Me Started: Weasel Words
Posted by james on August 26, 2011
0 comments
Here is the same content in en-us. My e-mail service went down last month for a full day. When it finally came back up, I received an apology from its administrator, saying: “users experienced e-mail connectivity issues.” Bullhockey, Mr. Administrator. I did not experience “an issue.” I experienced the lack of e-mail because your servers [...]
Don’t Get Me Started: The Secret to a Successful Windows Phone 7 App
Posted by james on August 24, 2011
0 comments
Here is the same content in en-us. Killer applications sell the hardware and the OS that runs them. The classic example is Lotus 1-2-3, for which users bought the original IBM PC. The killer apps for dumb cell phones are voice and text messaging. They’ve been fantastically successful, with a mobile phone in the pocket [...]
Security Briefs: Getting Started With The SDL Threat Modeling Tool
Posted by james on August 8, 2011
0 comments
Getting Started With The SDL Threat Modeling Tool Figure 1 The Threat Modeling ProcessIn November 2008, Microsoft announced the general availability of the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) Threat Modeling Tool as a free download from MSDN. This column follows a team through the process of getting started with the SDL threat modeling approach and shows [...]
Don’t Get Me Started: A Real Pain in the Neck
Posted by james on August 5, 2011
0 comments
Not too long ago, the Microsoft.com homepage, shown here, was inflicting physical pain on its users. This pain was caused by deliberate decisions of professionals whose job it is to know better. Plattski hyperbole? Read and wince. As on many homepages, the central display frame cycles through several highlight screens. The tabs beside the screen [...]