posted by gael
Friday, March 21st, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Today I’m packing for one week of vacation followed by the
AOSD 2008 conference,
the principal conference of the AOP community
I will be presented PostSharp in a session academically named
User-friendly aspects and compile-time imperative semantics in .NET with
PostSharp and you can already download
the
paper in PDF format.
But that's not all. If you are to attend the conference,
you are invited to the
Microsoft.Community.Dinner that will take place the 2nd of April (the
day of my speech) after the reception. Info and reservation at gael at
fraiteur dot net.
During the
posted by gael
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
I am happy to announce that I started this week a long-term partnership
with Starcounter AB, a Stockholm-based software shop producing a next-generation
object database management system (ODBMS) that will make you understand the
benefits of 64-bit hardware. I am not allowed to give too much details, but
I'll sure do it once it will go public. Believe me, it sounds cool!
The good thing for PostSharp is that the partnership plans to reserve 40%
of regular working time to PostSharp development. To be more precise, I will
work in the average 3 days a week for Starcounter, but at a rate that allows
me to invest the rest of the time in PostSharp.
Starcounter is already a old partner of PostSharp. Contacts started in
June 2006, when they started considering PostSharp in their product. In
November 2006, they sponsored the development of the hosting infrastructure,
which allows to host PostSharp easily in server environments. In May-July
2007, they hired me to implement PostSharp in their product. The money
allowed me to pack and publish the first release candidate, which was a
really great step!
PostSharp just took too more time to be done in spare time (do you
realize the time it takes to support users, correct bugs, and promote the
project?). I am happy that our agreement will guarantee the future of
PostSharp.
A great new for the community expecting long-term project viability!
Happy PostSharping!
Gael
posted by gael
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
If you belong to those who don't like global installations, the
latest release candidate should make you happy: there is now a binary
distribution without installer.
This distribution should remove much of the mystery about how PostSharp
integrates in the build process. Actually, since the installer does not
modify the MSBuild target files for you, you have to do it yourself. The
interesting thing is that you can do it in a per-project basis: instead of
modifying global MSBuild target files, you can just import PostSharp in the
projects that actually need it.
If you think this kind of installation is for you,
download the 'Binary - No Installer' package, and read
carefully the installation instructions in the file
doc/Build-Instructions.html.
Since this kind of distribution is quite new, I am looking forward for
your comments.
Happy PostSharping!
Gael
