Myles Braithwaite

Recently at a clients I had to work with a property software developed in ASP. It was developed by a vendor and another consultant company. Now the vendor’s software (of course) was compiled into DLL files (for those of you who work in python think eggs in java think wars) so IIS could server nicely (now this is a property software so this is quite normal). Now most of that would normally be okay but except for a bug in the software in the database layer. Now this (as told to me by the other consultants firm) was just a matter of a sequence file not in the database. No lets say if this was a open source project I would have CC myself to the bug ticket to receive up to the minute status on said bug. After a month of waiting I might even go as far as to download the version, simulate the environment and begin seeing what the problem is and if I find anything would create a patch and attach it to my ticket. Of course because this is property software all I can do is sit back and hear allot of bullshit.

I will be presenting IronPython at the next PyGTA meeting.

Newsgroups: comp.lang.python.announce
From: “Mike C. Fletcher” 
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:15:27
Subject: Python in a strange land: IronPython and ASP.NET at the next PyGTA


	
IronPython is a native implementation of Python on the Microsoft .NET platform.  The implementation is from Microsoft and the language is well supported by the Visual Studio development environment which has always been one of the Microsoft platform’s strengths.  Though Python is often associated with the Free and Open Source communities, consultants and developers frequently need to solve real-world problems using Python on the .NET platform.  IronPython makes using Python in these situations a natural choice for the Python programmer. 

	
Our speaker for the evening is Myles Braithwaite, a local consultant and developer.  He is going to give us an idea of how developing a web application using ASP.NET looks when using IronPython instead of C#, as well as his impressions of the platform. 

	
As usual, we will hold the presentation at Linux Caffe, gathering for introductions at 6:30 PM, with the formal presentation beginning at 7:00 PM.  We normally head out around 8:30 PM for beer, coffee and/or ice cream.  You can find directions and maps to Linux Caffe on the wiki: 

	
http://web.engcorp.com/pygta/wiki/NextMeeting

Update

I have the Presentation and Demo files at my wiki: /Presentations/2007/PyGTA-IronPython

I install IronPython’s module for ASP.NET on one of my Windows Boxes to see how it would work. Here are some simple sinpplets of the differentces bettween Python, C#, and Visual Basic.

I have moved this page to my wiki.