After the GIDS 2008 last year, me and one of my colleague at Xebia expressed our interest in attending Developer Summit this year. Great Indian Developer Summit(GIDS) took place from 23-25 April 2009 at Bangalore , India. Our journey started with witnessing a huge chaos at the airport. Their systems had gone down so everything was haywire. We joked of representing Xebia here as well to present them a better software solution @Bangalore , India The first day saw a huge number of peopl
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One of the important additions to IronPython 2.6 is something that enables several important new ways of integrating with the .NET framework. One the use cases is for .NET attribute support, which has long been missing from IronPython. The new feature is __clrtype__ . This allows you to customize the CLR type used for Python classes. By default a Python class in IronPython is not a true .NET class. This is because Python classes are much more flexible than .NET classes (and can be garbage co
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RIAPalooza Two. Designers and Developers Together For a One Day Conference in Chicago.
Last Year I attended RIAPalooza , a conference focused on the design and development of Rich Internet Applications. It was a fantastic event, with a lot of great presentations covering AJAX, Flex, and Silverlight. I wrote a recap about the event, here . The event is happening again this year, on May 8th. It looks to be another awesome lineup of sessions. One change from last year
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