Looking Sideways

VB.Net Oddities

Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:56:00 PST

I am at a new job where we the main development platform is .NET in VB. I am baffled by some of the ways things are done in VB.Net. I try not to be a language bigot, but VB.Net just feels messy and wordy to me.

Maybe some of my 0 readers can explain the following to me:

Why must I explicitly write Implements InterfaceName.MethodName after every method of an Interface I am implementing? The fact that I am implementing an Interface forces me by definition to implement all declared methods.
What is up with Modules? Is it that hard to write Public Shared Class?

There are probably more, but these are two oddities I encountered today.

I laughed

Mon, 27 Feb 2006 19:34:00 PST

This made me laugh today.

http://www.parm.net/web2.0/

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Ruby

Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:05:00 PST

First Blog post.

When I first happened upon Ruby on Rails back when it first appeared on Slashdot, I thought, neat, another toy web framework for writing bad web applications. I had honestly forgotten about it, until a few weeks ago I heard that Rails was gaining momentum and figured it deserved a second look.

I am not sure where I stand on the framework now as I have yet to develop anything with Rails, but the community has me intrigued, as does the Ruby language. Everything seems quite slick after a quick glance, but writing large applications in dynamically typed languages has always made me nervous. It reminds me of some of the most horrible code I have ever had to work with in my career.

So, I’ve bought an iMac(i have never used a Mac in my life), Programming Ruby and Agile Web Development with Rails. I have signed up for a year with Dreamhost, I have installed Typo and am ready to try this thing out. Now I just need a project.

Now playing: The M's - Never Do This Again