http://simonwillison.net/2008-03-19T09:46:01+00:00Simon Willison2008-03-19T09:46:01+00:002008-03-19T09:46:01+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Mar/19/dinos/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/dinoviehland/archive/2008/03/17/ironpython-ms-sql-and-pep-249.aspx">IronPython, MS SQL, and PEP 249</a></strong></p> How Dino Viehland got Django’s ORM to talk to the .NET database layer. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dinoviehland">dinoviehland</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/django">django</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dotnet">dotnet</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ironpython">ironpython</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/microsoft">microsoft</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mssql">mssql</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pep249">pep249</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sql">sql</a></p>

2008-03-17T16:05:18+00:002008-03-17T16:05:18+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Mar/17/unbracketed/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://unbracketed.org/2008/mar/16/pycon-2008-django-now-plays-dark-side/">Django on IronPython</a></strong></p> Dino Viehland demonstrated Django running on IronPython and SQL Server at PyCon. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dinoviehland">dinoviehland</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ironpython">ironpython</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/microsoft">microsoft</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pycon">pycon</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sqlserver">sqlserver</a></p>

2008-01-30T02:19:23+00:002008-01-30T02:19:23+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jan/30/mono/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/01/29/mono-beta-launch/">Mono Beta Launch - Official Linden Blog</a></strong></p> The Mono VM is now in public beta testing running LSL scripts in Second Life. The first step on the road to IronPython support? <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ironpython">ironpython</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/lindenlab">lindenlab</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/lsl">lsl</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mono">mono</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/secondlife">secondlife</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/virtualmachines">virtualmachines</a></p>

2007-07-26T20:07:50+00:002007-07-26T20:07:50+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jul/26/voidspace/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/weblog/arch_d7_2007_07_21.shtml#e777">Mozilla and IronPython: IronMonkey</a></strong></p> Interesting to note that all three new Mozilla projects are being lead by experienced Python developers. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ironmonkey">ironmonkey</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ironpython">ironpython</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mozilla">mozilla</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/voidspace">voidspace</a></p>

2007-07-26T20:05:02+00:002007-07-26T20:05:02+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jul/26/brendans/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2007/07/new_projects.html">Brendan Eich: New Projects</a></strong></p> Exciting new projects from Mozilla. ActionMonkey is joined by IronMonkey (IronPython/IronRuby on Tamarin) and ScreamingMonkey (Tamarin for IE). Upgrading IE’s JavaScript using the Flash Player as a vector is a game-changing idea. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/actionmonkey">actionmonkey</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/brendan-eich">brendan-eich</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/flash">flash</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/internet-explorer">internet-explorer</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ironmonkey">ironmonkey</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ironpython">ironpython</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ironruby">ironruby</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mozilla">mozilla</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/screamingmonkey">screamingmonkey</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/tamarin">tamarin</a></p>

2007-06-16T00:25:52+00:002007-06-16T00:25:52+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jun/16/voidspace/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/weblog/arch_d7_2007_06_09.shtml#e745"><p>[...] Silverlight has full access to the browser DOM and you can make calls from Javascript into silverlight code and from Silverlight into Javascript. This means that you can already write the presentation layer of a client side web app in Javascript and implement your business logic in IronPython.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/weblog/arch_d7_2007_06_09.shtml#e745">Michael Foord</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/fuzzyman">fuzzyman</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ironpython">ironpython</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/michael-foord">michael-foord</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/silverlight">silverlight</a></p>

2007-02-09T00:55:21+00:002007-02-09T00:55:21+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Feb/9/mono/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2007/Feb-07.html">Mono 1.2.3 has been released</a></strong></p> More importantly, it ships with IronPython in the form of Seo Sanghyeon’s Community Edition. <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/weblog/arch_d7_2007_02_03.shtml#e624">The Voidspace Techie Blog</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ironpython">ironpython</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mono">mono</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a></p>

2007-02-04T17:25:36+00:002007-02-04T17:25:36+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Feb/4/ironpython/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://ironpython-urls.blogspot.com/">IronPython URLs</a></strong></p> Mark Rees’ and Seo Sanghyeon’s collection of interesting URLs posted to the IronPython mailing list. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ironpython">ironpython</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a></p>

2006-12-18T15:22:25+00:002006-12-18T15:22:25+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2006/Dec/18/builtins/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=31256928&amp;forum_id=48183">__builtins__ usage</a></strong></p> Avoid using __builtins__ if you want your code to be compatible with IronPython. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ironpython">ironpython</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a></p>

2006-09-22T00:25:11+00:002006-09-22T00:25:11+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2006/Sep/22/excited/#atom-tag

<p id="p-0">Wow, I've had a really busy month. I've attended (and spoken at) <a href="http://barcamp.org/BarCampLondon">BarCamp London</a>, <a href="http://www.mediaintransition.com/indexe.html">Media in Transition</a>, <a href="http://2006.dconstruct.org/">d.Construct</a>, <a href="http://europe.railsconf.org/">RailsConf Europe</a>, Euro Foo and <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/euos2006/">EuroOSCON</a>. All were excellent, and each one nicely complemented the others. I'm exhausted. I think my brain is full.</p> <p id="p-1">My favourite question to ask new people I meet at conferences is "what are you excited about?". It's better than "what do you do?" (their job might not be as exciting as what they do in their spare time) and often gets a really interesting reply. People often ask me the same back, so here are three things that have been catching my attention recently.</p> <ul> <li><p id="p-2"><strong><a href="http://openid.net/">OpenID</a></strong>. It's criminal that so few people are playing with this. I gave talks about it at both BarCamp and Euro Foo - it's decentralised single sign-on that works, and it's trivial to implement thanks to really solid libraries for most programming languages. There's also a <a href="http://iwantmyopenid.org/bounty">$5,000 bounty</a> to help spur adoption. I'll be writing a lot more about this in the future.</p></li> <li><p id="p-3"><strong>Virtualization</strong>. This was a common thread at several conferences, and the recent popularity of Parallels for browser testing barely scratches the surface. Virtual servers have a bunch of advantages over physical servers: you can clone them instantly, you can migrate them between machines (while they are still running if you're using Xen) and Amazon's <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/ec2">EC2</a> offers <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_computing">utility computing</a> on an enormous scale.</p></li> <li><p id="p-4"><strong>Dynamic languages on virtual machines</strong>. <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=IronPython">IronPython 1.0</a> is out, Sun <a href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/09/07/JRuby-guys">have hired the JRuby guys</a>. It looks like dynamic languages are finally being taken seriously as useful and powerful alternatives to C# and Java. Programmers on those VMs get more productive languages, while users of those languages gain access to enormous existing class libraries, not to mention the promise of significant performance boosts.</p></li> </ul> <p id="p-5">Finally, since I've blogged the <a href="/2003/Jul/30/python23/" title="Python 2.3">last</a> <a href="/2004/Sep/21/python24/" title="Python 2.4 highlights">two</a> releases of Python I can't resist saying a few things about <a href="http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5/">the new Python 2.5</a>. It's <a href="http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/whatsnew25.html" title="What&apos;s New in Python 2.5">all good</a>, but the stuff that really stands out is the addition of <a href="http://docs.python.org/dev/lib/module-sqlite3.html">sqlite3</a>, <a href="http://docs.python.org/dev/lib/module-xml.etree.elementtree.html">ElementTree</a> and <a href="http://docs.python.org/dev/lib/module-ctypes.html">ctypes</a> to the standard library. Batteries included!</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/barcamp">barcamp</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ctypes">ctypes</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dconstruct">dconstruct</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dynamic-languages">dynamic-languages</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/eurofoo">eurofoo</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/eurooscon">eurooscon</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ironpython">ironpython</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mediaintransition">mediaintransition</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openid">openid</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/railsconfeurope">railsconfeurope</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/speaking">speaking</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/virtuailization">virtuailization</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sqlite">sqlite</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a></p>

2006-09-01T00:51:17+00:002006-09-01T00:51:17+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2006/Sep/1/room/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2006/08/30.html">The Screening Room #8: IronPython</a></strong></p> Screamingly cool demo, with commentary from Jim Hugunin and Jon Udell. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ironpython">ironpython</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jon-udell">jon-udell</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a></p>

2006-09-01T00:51:17+00:002006-09-01T00:51:17+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2006/Sep/1/screening/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2006/08/30.html">The Screening Room #8: IronPython</a></strong></p> Screamingly cool demo, with commentary from Jim Hugunin and Jon Udell. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ironpython">ironpython</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jon-udell">jon-udell</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a></p>