I just stumbled on this article Sunday morning. This snippet sums up the product:
There is a way of marrying the advantages of .NET development with Java deployment. Using Mainsoft for Enterprise Edition (EE), Visual Studio developers can write code in .NET and cross-compile it to Java. Not only code, but pieces of the Framework; Mainsoft [...]
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Running .Net code on a JVM?
June 8, 2008
SQL Server driver for PHP5
February 9, 2008
For anyone that has struggled with using PHP and MSSQL over the years, this one may come as some pleasant news (if you’re still in that situation). Microsoft has put out a preview of “SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP” back in October 2007 (yeah, I just found out this morning!). Ehh… not as impressed [...]
MS dev tool installation woes
February 3, 2008
I’ve not done any major development work specifically inside MS Windows for a few years now, and I’ve forgotten what some of the hassles are. Today I revisited that world, looking to play with the new ASP.NET and .NET 3.5 framework. Whew what a hassle. Let me start by saying I can only run Windows [...]
Need Excel macro
January 31, 2008
Looking for an Excel macro or whatever it’s called that would record the time/date a row was changed in to a column in that row. That might be recursive if not handled properly. This seems like it would just come standard in Excel - have a cell indicate the last updated time/date of something in [...]
Latest podcast up
January 27, 2008
I had a good conversation with Joe Fiorini about balancing his daily work in .NET with a passion and enthusiasm for Ruby on Rails. Have a listen.
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Latest podcast up - Codemash Open Spaces - Open Source in .NET
January 20, 2008
I had a fun time recording this ‘open spaces’ meeting at Codemash last week. This was led by Joe Brinkman from the DotNetNuke project, and joining us was Kevin Devine from the Euclid Public Library, Sara Ford from Codeplex @ Microsoft, Steven Harman from the Subtext project and - shoot - I do not have [...]
MS Word formatting concerns
January 15, 2008
The same discussion for ’standardizing’ on MS Office came up yesterday (again). The big issue is that going between OpenOffice and MS Word will sometimes lose certain formatting. However, I’ve also heard of (and seen) MS Word losing formatting with itself. A bit of digging turns up this little nugget:
Printer hardware and configuration can affect [...]
Great DotNetNuke conversation
January 5, 2008
I had the pleasure of speaking with Joe Brinkman last year @ codemash, and perhaps will get a chance to speak with him again next week (again, @ codemash). Anyway, while not directly in the dot net community myself, I try to keep up with what’s going on all over the place. I stumbled on [...]
PHP on mobile devices
December 20, 2007
I heard about this last week, which is an article about running PHP on Symbian mobile devices. Haven’t seen much in the press about this, possibly because it’s not a full release, but just an announcement. The crux of the article is that someone has ported Apache, MySQL and PHP to the Symbian E90. They’re [...]
Codemash free admission drawing giveaway
December 6, 2007
The codemash organizers have graciously donated a free pass to the upcoming Codemash conference to be given away to one lucky webdevradio.com listener. To enter in to the drawing, listen to the codemash episode interview podcast on webdevradio with Jim Holmes, follow the instructions, and hope your name is drawn.
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