The Lost Episode

Back in August we sat down to chat with Rob Reynolds and Dru Sellers about the Nu project. At the time, I hadn't even edited the interview with Brian Hogan yet. So in a death spiral of external events and general procrastination sprinkled with a little bit of exhaustion for good measure, I haven't gotten around to editing the episode... yet. First I want to apologize to you, our listener for not being more prompt with the turn around on new content. I can make excuses but those don't make for good listening. And I want to apologize to Rob and Dru for taking the time to sit down with us and I didn't return the courtesy by getting the episode out in a timely manner. I'm going to sit down over the next couple days and get the episode together as a "Rough Cut" (really, all of our episodes probably would be described as "Rough Cuts" anyway) and at least get Rob and Dru's insights into the .NET F/OSS world and the great work they're doing with Nu into your ears.

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Episode 2 - Chat with Shay "IronShay" Friedman

Will and Mike chat with Shay "IronShay" Friedman, an IronRuby MVP and the author of "IronRuby Unleashed".

Notes:

- There are 3 IronRuby MVP's: Ivan Porto Carrero,  Michael Letterle

Shay Friedman - http://ironshay.com
Michael Letterle - http://blog.prokrams.com
Ivan Porto Carrero - http://flanders.co.nz/

- Rake is a great tool for building .NET, particularly using Albacore

- Albacore
http://albacorebuild.net
Derick Bailey - http://derickbailey.lostechies.com/
The Nature of Lisp - http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html
Transitioning from NAnt to Rake - http://codebetter.com/blogs/david_laribee/archive/2008/10/17/transitioning-from-nant-to-rake.aspx

- JRuby, Jetty, Apache
JRuby - http://jruby.org
Jetty - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetty_(web_server)
Apache - http://httpd.apache.org/

- Jimmy Schmenti
http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com/
Microsoft DLR program manager

- The importance of REPL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read-eval-print_loop

- Dynamic C#
http://www.weirdlover.com/2010/05/26/c-dynamics-the-cool-new-thing-to-crap-on/

- Compiler as a Service
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2210734/what-is-the-state-of-the-c-compiler-as-a-service

- Tools
RubyMine - http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby
SharpDevelop - http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/

- Origin of the "Iron" prefix
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1194309/why-are-many-ports-of-languages-to-net-prefixed-with-iron
… and why is python named python and ruby named ruby?
http://geekswithblogs.net/brians/archive/2008/06/14/122861.aspx

- Silly names
cucumber - http://cukes.info
nokogiri
  http://nokogiri.org/
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokogiri
hotgazpacho - http://hotgazpacho.org

- Origin of IronPython
Jim Hugunin - http://hugunin.net/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/hugunin/archive/2006/09/05/741605.aspx

- For Want of a Nail
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Want_of_a_Nail_(proverb)

- PowerBuilder
http://www.lannigan.org/powersoft_powerbuilder_history.htm

- Objective-C History (kind of)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C#History

- Perl
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl

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Posted by Michael D. Hall