I've spent the better part of the last 4 months looking into what the open source communities have been up to.  The .NET stack was great to work with for 2.5 years, but I always find I get a thrill out of working with new things.My books collection has been growing, particularly with PragProg titles.  In the last 4 months I've read:Seven Languages in Seven Weeks - Bruce TateHTML5 and CSS3 - Brian HoganProgramming Ruby 1.9 (1.9.2 update) - Dave ThomasThe Rails 3 Way - Obie FernandezIn the mean time I've come to love the Ruby programming language and the Rails framework - which has j

Saturday 13 August was Devs4Devs at Microsoft's Bryanston offices.  Apologies that I've taken so long to get my slides and code out, but they're attached at the bottom of this postThanks everyone who attended my talk on using jQuery PJAX with ASP.NET MVC3.Here are my slides and code from the talk.Slides Code

Calling all developers!  Microsoft's Devs4Devs is happening on 13 August 2011 at their Bryanston offices.Devs4Devs has to be my favourite developer event of the year.  There's time to socialize with fellow geeks and learn how to use some really cool new technologies.I will be presenting on using jQuery PJAX to speed up client side performance with the ASP.NET MVC framework.A list of presentations and the registration link can be found on Microsoft's South Africa Developer Platform blog, here

Thanks for the great turn-out at the Microsoft Community Night on 12 July, we had a full room for the languages UG!For those who weren't there - I gave a talk on Dynamic Languages and the DLR on Tuesday 12 July.Here are the resources from the talk:IronPython: http://ironpython.codeplex.com Clay: http://clay.codeplex.com System.Dynamic: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.dynamic.aspxAnd here's the code used to call a Python script from C#, using the DLR interop and dynamic keyword: