Dumping Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 for VMWare Workstation 6.0

Microsoft
I recently decided to dump Microsoft’s Virtual PC 2007 in favor of VMWare’s Workstation 6.0.? Why?? The primary reason is VPC is a pretty lousy virtualization environment, has lousy support for anything but Microsoft and no one outside of Microsoft creates any virtual machines for it.?? Yes, I sound bitter.?...

New IronRuby Build Instructions

IronRuby
I started playing with the new drop of the IronRuby source this past Labor Day Weekend but found out quickly the source would not build due to the RakeFile included with the release.? It was apparent the RakeFile was very specific to the Microsoft internal environment and it would not...

links for 2007-08-29

Technology
[Ask Udi](https://udidahan.weblogs.us/ask-udi) A nice podcast about all things SOA (tags: [soa](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/soa) [podcast](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/podcast)) [NServiceBus - Communications Framework for .NET](https://udidahan.weblogs.us/category/nservicebus/) A framework for managing SOA applications in .NET. Utilizes MSMQ for it's core plumbing. Very good. (tags: [soa](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/soa))

links for 2007-08-24

Technology
[InfoQ: A Look at Common Performance Problems in Rails](https://www.infoq.com/articles/Rails-Performance) A nice look at Rails performance issues and how to address them. (tags: [rails](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/rails) [rubyonrails](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/rubyonrails)) [InfoQ: Ruby Hoedown Presentations available online](https://www.infoq.com/news/2007/08/ruby-hoedown-videos) Nice screencasts from a recent Ruby event. (tags: [ruby](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/ruby) [Presentations](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/Presentations)) [InfoQ: FiveRuns Readies Latest Component of Rails Stack - Installer](https://www.infoq.com/news/2007/08/fiveruns-releases-rails-installe)...