Martin Fowler on Ruby and Microsoft

Ruby
In the event you are a Ruby enthusiast and have been living under a rock, Martin Fowler has an interesting post on his view of Microsoft’s lack of open source support, their intent with Ruby and AlphaGeeks ramblings.

Great Ruby Development Environment for Windows

Ruby
I am a Microsoft Windows developer by day, writing C# .NET Windows client and web application to make a living. I use Visual Studio 2005 for my day-to-day work and I have to say, I am spoiled by many of the features Microsoft has baked into the application.

Connecticut (CT) Ruby on Rails Meetup Group

Ruby on Rails
I recently discovered the CT Ruby on Rails Meetup Group while searching for?a local Ruby and Ruby on Rails group.? I had discovered the MetroWest Ruby Meetup Group a while back but never can seem to get the time to get to a meeting. I have not gone to a...

links for 2007-03-22

Technology
[100% Reflective Class Diagram Creation Tool - The Code Project - C# Programming](https://www.codeproject.com/csharp/AutoDiagrammer.asp) Nice tool to produce a class diagram from a .NET assembly. (tags: [dotnet](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/dotnet))

links for 2007-03-07

Technology
[The Trac Project - Trac](https://trac.edgewall.org/) (tags: [bugtracking](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/bugtracking)) [BugTracker.NET Home](https://www.ifdefined.com/bugtrackernet.html) Great free and opensource bug tracking system for .net. (tags: [bugtracking](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/bugtracking)) [FogBugz](https://www.fogcreek.com/FogBugz/) Not a free tool but one I have used in the past, it integrates to Visual Studio and to source control systems. Although not free, it is inexpensive for...

links for 2007-02-15

Technology
[ADO.NET team blog : Entity Data Model 101 - Part 2](https://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2007/02/12/entity-data-model-101-part-2.aspx) (tags: [LINQ](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/LINQ))

links for 2007-02-10

Technology
[Enterprise .NET Community: Creating a Custom ASP.NET Profile Provider](https://www.theserverside.net/tt/articles/showarticle.tss?id=CsharpLINQLearningGuide2007) This is a great resource for learning LINQ. It is a small portal of everything LINQ. Very useful. (tags: [LINQ](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/LINQ)) [ADO.NET team blog : Entity Data Model 101: Part 1](https://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2007/01/30/entity-data-model-part-1.aspx) Nice introduction to the new Entity Data Model coming in the...

Microsoft Windows Vista Machine Build - Preview

Technology
I have had the same desktop system for the past 3 years and over the past few months it seems the system is getting slower and slower. It is a Dell Optiplex with a 3.2G P4 process, 2G RAM and a couple hard drives and running Windows XP SP2. I...