July 2004 - Posts

IronPython released!

Finally, I can download the much talked about 'Iron Python'.

This is a .Net implementation of Python, which claims to be "up to 1.7x faster than Python-2.3 on the standard pystone benchmark."

I look forward to trying this one out :)

http://www.ironpython.com/

p.s. From an earlier post, I was pointed to Zope (http://www.zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/index_html) , to show that there are alternatives out there. I think I will try them both out together this week.

posted Thursday, July 29, 2004 5:02 AM by andrewwhitten

Membership Services in ASP.Net 2.0

I spent quite some time adding user roles to our product on Sunday... and today MSDN posts a nice article showing how much easier it is with ASP.Net 2.0 !

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/06/ASPNET20Overview/default.aspx

Also the 'Master Pages' concept is something I would really like to employ.

That said, our product is near completion with ASP.Net 1.1, and to take advantage of these changes would take quite some time to reimplement.

posted Tuesday, July 13, 2004 5:23 AM by andrewwhitten

Boo! - Python style implementation for .Net

I had a lot of fun using Jython ( http://www.jython.org/ ), which is an implementation of Python ( http://www.python.org/ ) in Java. It is great for quickly scripting some tests to web service calls.

I then got excited to hear there was IronPython ( http://ironpython.com/ ), which I gathered was the same thing implemented in .Net. However it is not yet available for download at all, nor is there any indication as to when it will be.

Today I found another language called Boo, ( http://boo.codehaus.org/ ) which is a new .Net language, and seems to be 'inspired' by Python.

If anyone has experiences with Python implementations on .Net, I'd love to hear about them.

posted Monday, July 12, 2004 5:54 AM by andrewwhitten