[dba-Tech] FYI: "Microsoft may still win the tablet war" and other mobile market news directly related to MS technologies...

Hans-Christian Andersen hans.andersen at phulse.com
Fri Jan 11 15:31:42 CST 2013



It's a bit disconcerting though that IronRuby hasn't had a stable release in 2 years and that Microsoft abandoned their support of both IronPython and IronRuby in 2010.

Whats going on there?

- Hans



On 2013-01-11, at 12:18 PM, Salakhetdinov Shamil <mcp2004 at mail.ru> wrote:

> Hi Hans --
> 
> Yes, iPhone/iPad development can be done using MonoTouch as it follows from the books (I have no own experience with MonoTouch) - here is one of the books:  http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/Professional-iPhone-Programming-with-MonoTouch-and-NET-C-.productCd-047063782X.html  . There quite some others if you look at Amazon, e.g.  http://www.amazon.com/Learning-MonoTouch-Hands-Building-Applications/dp/0321719921  ...
> 
> And Python is available for Visual Studio as IronPython  -  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IronPython  - it should be good enough to start with when time will allow.
> 
> There exists also IronRuby -  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IronRuby  ...
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> -- Shamil
> 
> 
> Пятница, 11 января 2013, 11:16 -08:00 от Hans-Christian Andersen <hans.andersen at phulse.com>:
>> Hi Shamil,
>> 
>>> Python is on my "long waiting list" - do you use Python in your everyday web development there?
>> 
>> Not currently, but I did use Python and Django for a bit recently. I quite liked it and the syntactic sugar as great, but you just have to be aware of these things or else it just looks like magic at first.
>> 
>> I highly recommend you move Python up your waiting list, because it will benefit you in many ways, not the least that Python is cross platform.
>> 
>>> I must note my intention in posting the subject news wasn't to post "bullet-/punch-holes- proof" Microsoft and Nokia's-MS-tied technologies' information - you can find that the last news is on probable Nokia's adaptation of Android.
>> 
>> Fair enough. I thought you were posting a 'current state of Windows 8 / Phone 8' (of which I'm sceptical, as you can tell).
>> 
>>> the move to Android (using MonoDroid) and iPhone (MonoTouch) promise to be natural as I have read from  some of the tech. books. Of course it would be better to use native Android and iPhone dev. tools but that would be the next step.
>> 
>> So, Apple is now allowing applications built in MonoTouch? Interesting. Didn't realise this was happening.
>> 
>> 
>> - Hans
>> 
>> <<< skipped >>>
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