JAOO Århus 2009
Actually I had not planned to go to JAOO this year, but first my good colleagues who run ANUG struck a good deal where Mads Torgersen and Oren Eini alias Ayende Rahien would give a special talk in the evening for the usergroup. This was simply too good to pass up. After all, how...
IronPython - high order functions as decorators for AOP
One of my favorite features from when I was playing around with F# was high order functions. A high order function is quite simply a function that takes a function as an argument and returnes a function. A basic sample just to get the point accross could be: def Outer():...
Community events and interesting stuff I have stumbled upon
Community events Over the last couple of months I have spent some time participating at usergroup events and listening to podcasts - to a larger extent than usual. Actually just today I was at "Dev Days - architecture that works", which was the first whole day ANUG event. The...
IronPython – multiple inheritance and monkey patching
Multiple inheritance Besides the basic OOP stuff that I covered in my last post there are some things that you can do in IronPython which is not possible in languages like C# and java. One nice thing that I have heard people moan about not having in other languages is multiple...
IronPython – OOP basics
A while ago I heard a podcast where it was discussed that some believe that languages like C#/java etc are actually not object oriented but that they are really oriented. This provoked my thinking quite a bit, since OOP was the corner stone during my education, and we wrote all...