IronPython URLs

Ibrahim Kivanc is a Turkish blogger and programmer who has been having fun with IronPython and Silverlight. We've covered some of his exploits previously . He's created a new website to promote IronPython in Turkey, but it won't make much sense unless you can read Turkish. ironpythonntr.com Fortunately for those of us who can't read Turkish, Ibrahim is intending to translate his articles into English. He says: I'm in a progress with IronPython for a year. Last year I made presantitons with Microsoft Student Partner program and INETA program in Turkey about Ipy.In my blog I wrote more than 20 articles about IronPython in Turkish, most of them about IronPython with Silverlight working together in my blog . As soon as possible I will also translate my articles to English for foreign people. I translated AgDLR and Chiron in Turkish. Now many Turkish people easily develop Silverlight app with IronPython. This year I will make more presentation and promote IronPython in ...

Tarn Barford is another .NET developer interested in IronPython. He has just done a presentation for the Victoria .NET user group and the slides and his notes are on his blog: IronPython Presentation Python Basic information about the language and its background. Would have liked to have added meta programming or at least “...” to the paradigms. I think it’s a fantastic language so I’ll mention it’s expressive, fun, productive or whatever adjectives I’ve got in my head at the time. People using Python I really want to demonstrate that Python is real language, being used by real people, to write real code. I probably should also have mentioned Google App Engine here which I’ve been tinkering with a bit recently and think is pretty cool. IronPython The Python language on .Net. Most of the demo is doing cool stuff in .Net with the Python language. I think it goes further than this and allows developers to use their own paradigms and patterns to do .NET development. C# and IronPy...

IronPython is doing well, it has taken me a week to catch up with all the blog posts in the wake of the 2.0 Beta 4 release. It isn't just in the English speaking parts of the world that IronPython is a hit though, which is good news for the Python and IronPython communities. Here are two recent blog entries on IronPython in both Japanese and Chinese. They are both about the new features in 2.0 Beta 4. The first is about the new COM interop features, whilst the second shows off the COM interop (this one has understandable code examples of working with Excel) along with static compilation and an obligatory mention of the inclusion of the Python standard library. Shozoa IronPython and OLE on MSDN Blogs (Japanese) IronPython 2.0 Beta 4 - JJX on cnblogs (Chinese)

David Peterson has created a Facebook group for dynamic languages on .NET: .NET Dynamic Languages Group on Facebook

A pre-alpha version of IronRuby has just been released: A First Look at IronRuby by John Lam Scott Guthrie has posted a good introduction to using it (interacting with WPF): First Look at IronRuby by Scott Guthrie John Lam's announcement about IronRuby included a couple of surprises. It is to be hosted on Rubyforge rather than Codeplex and will accept contributions from the community. This is something that hasn't so far been possible with IronPython, so members of the community were keen to hear if the same thing would also reply. Jim Hugunin responded on the IronPython mailing list that this will happen in the long term, but we would have to wait...