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Stupid Type Systems - Innecessary Casting in C#

If List<> inherits IList<>, and MyIdentity inherits IIdentity, then why the heck the C# compiler cannot cast from List<MyIdentity> to IList<IIdentity>??????It is the same, the compiler is not smart enough to know this.So to satisfy Read More
posted Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1:22 PM by tayseer | 2 Comments
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C#.Next, What it must NOT include?

There are some talks lately about the next version of C#, and what is should add. People has gone too far asking for new features, most notably the dynamic lookup static void Main(string[] args){    dynamic    {        Read More
posted Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:20 AM by tayseer | 0 Comments
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The Django book is released

Finally, the long-awaited Django book is released under the GNU Free Documentation license. Everybody can learn and suggest enhancements to the book or Django.Does Django runs with IronPython? Yes, it runs on IPCE, but I don't think that everything runs Read More
posted Sunday, December 16, 2007 4:23 PM by tayseer | 0 Comments
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The First IronPython Book

Manning Publishing is working on the first book about IronPython, called IronPython in Action. You can download the first chapter for free. They have provided the chapters 2, 3 and 4 under their early access program. Read More
posted Monday, September 10, 2007 6:52 AM by tayseer | 0 Comments
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Blame yourself before anybody else

Here at Silverkey, we use LLBLGen Pro as our ORM. One of the nicest features of it is prefetching related entities, so if you have a "CompanyEntity", you can tell it to fetch all related "Employee Entity". This makes our jobs easier, except when it doesn't!!!Today Read More
posted Tuesday, August 21, 2007 11:25 AM by tayseer | 0 Comments
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Silverkey Demo Day II - an insider's report

Update 16/7/2007: A version of my presentation in PowerPoint 2003 format is attached with this post. The demos are attached with the original one here For audience opinons, see Korayem or Ahmad Shreef To know how we got the idea of Read More
posted Saturday, July 14, 2007 1:33 PM by tayseer | 2 Comments
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Silverkey demo day 2

Dear PythoneersSilverkey is going to hold its second demo day on 7/7/2007 in Cairo, Egypt. You can see the demo day agenda here. We are going to make a discussion about static vs. dynamic languages, using C# and Python as examples. I'm going to represent Read More
posted Thursday, June 28, 2007 12:59 PM by tayseer | 0 Comments
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Next IronPython talks at Teched 2007

Herehttp://blogs.msdn.com/ironpython/archive/2007/05/25/our-talks-at-teched-2007-june-4-8th-in-orlando.aspxThis is going to be more in-depth than the talks at MIX. I just hope they release the screencasts like they did to the screencast Read More
posted Sunday, May 27, 2007 5:50 AM by tayseer | 0 Comments
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