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• John Lam on IronRuby

  Time for another salvo of moving pictures! John catches us up on the IronRuby and shows some under-the-covers architecture of the DLR at the ALT.NET Open Spaces, Seattle event. I didn't get the whole thing, but there's some good stuff especially... Posted Apr 24 2008, 03:23 PM by Dave Laribee with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: ALT.NET, Featured, ironruby, Ruby, video

• The Separated Interface Pattern

  I did a quick streaming video today with the Separated Interface design pattern as our topic du jour. I wanted to see if the whiteboard would show up on video and if this was something people thought was valuable. It's certainly easy to pick a design... Posted Feb 29 2008, 03:47 PM by Dave Laribee with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: architecture, design, Featured, oo, patterns, video

• Die, Chicken. Die!

  The "in breakfast there are chickens and there are pigs" analogy is a popular one in Agile circles. It refers to the idea that in a given project there are people who are fully committed (pigs, developers) and people those who are merely invested... Posted Jan 23 2008, 12:01 AM by Dave Laribee with | with 15 comment(s) Filed under: Agile, Featured, Leadership, management, Scrum, teams, XP

• Approaching BDD

  I'm preparing a chunk of code for open source release in January. Among many other things it has a persistence layer wrapper with a "provider" for NHibernate, yet another validation framework, and a few goodies for building smart clients... Posted Dec 17 2007, 05:38 PM by Dave Laribee with | with 20 comment(s) Filed under: Agile, BDD, Featured, open source, TDD, xeva release series

• Deployment: The Cyclopean Pain in the @$$

  Why is deployment so hard? Where is my Agile deployment?! Chad Myers wrote about using XML configuration and stored procedures to monkey patch fixes in the production environment on the ALT.NET mailing list: Talk about dysfunctional, but we’ve learned... Posted Nov 16 2007, 09:12 AM by Dave Laribee with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: Agile, continuous-integration, deployment, Featured, pain

• Our 100 Language Future

  Jack Vaughan just posted an email interview we did about the DLR and the future for polyglot software developers. In early October I did a talk at Remix Boston about the current state of DSLs on the .NET Framework and what the Dynamic Language Runtime... Posted Nov 07 2007, 04:51 PM by Dave Laribee with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Featured

• This ALT.NET Life

  I'm sitting on a plane, traveling (late) to Remix Boston and mulling over the ALT.NET Open Spaces conference. It was a great experience that exceeded my expectations by a mile. Here's my (long-winded and roughly-cut, sorry) perspective on events... Posted Oct 09 2007, 06:57 PM by Dave Laribee with | with 15 comment(s) Filed under: ALT.NET, Community, Culture, Featured, microsoft