i needed to check something online with my bank so i fired up my browser and checked. then it dawned on me that i remember when ie7 came out that my bank (wells fargo) *immediately* (like literally within a few hours) started blocking it and put up a message saying specifically that my browser wasn't supported because it was beta.
thinking a bit i fired up safari 3 beta...son-of-a-* double standard. looks like i wasn't the only one who thought so...i saw these guys standing on the side of the road today as well...
shame on you wells fargo, shame on you...
yesterday i just posted about excitement around the ironruby discussion at oscon. well, more excitement today!
john lam just announced the first drop of the ironruby sourcecode! the source is licensed under the microsoft permissive license (BSD-style). also the team has announced that they will be accepting source code contributions for the ironruby libraries! this is phenomenal. there will be a lot of work to make that happen and the intention is to get ironruby on to rubyforge by end of august.
john also announced that in some some micro-benchmark tests, ironruby is testing significantly faster than ruby 1.8.6 in some areas and on par in others. john will be at oscon as previously mentioned demonstrating some ironruby code, talking about the dynamic language runtime, working with ironruby in silverlight, etc.
check out his full post here.
UPDATE: ironruby sourcecode released!
this week i'm heading to one of my favorite cities, portland. it is the week the open source geeks descend upon the oregon convention center for a week of open source-ness for OSCON.
so why am i going? i went last year and had a blast...and learned a lot. this year i'm going to lurk a little bit more, try to get some candid thoughts of attendees and hopefully learn some more!
microsoft will have a good showing this year, and i'm most excited about john lam's session on ironruby. if you are headed to oscon, please be sure to check it out on thursday @ 5:20pm (btw, why do FOSS conferences go so late into the night!? -- or i'm just getting old and lazy). john will talk about dynamic languages on .net -- ironruby, the BSD-style project for implementing ruby on .net, and probably show some silverlight madness implementing these dynamic languages.
see you there! if you are going, you can follow me on twitter, or ring me up on my cell, email, whatever...let's hook up and chat! i've put my list on myconfplan.com of where i think i'll be (dang, there is another session during john's that i really want to go to!).
channel 9 was born, then came 10...now press the down on your remote twice...channel 8 has launched!
from the about page:
Channel 8 is THE place to be for STUDENTS who want to code, connect and create technology. Stay plugged into tech news and share in the experience with students around the world just like you who want to see their creations come to life. This is also a back door directly into Microsoft just like Channel 9 but from a student point of view. This means access to the inside scoop about our products and life working inside Microsoft and information on cool things coming out. This is your community – a place for you to share your tips and tricks and even your problems. Go check out what others are doing and talk about what you think is cool.
check it out...interesting design...i like the code monkey!
