iron7

Iron7 was just the start!

Since Iron7, I’ve recently been working with Jurassic – http://jurassic.codeplex.com – and we now also have javascript running on WP7.1

Also… this scripting has formed the basis of quite a lot of the work behind https://github.com/Expensify/WindowsPhoneTestFramework

See:

Windows Phone 7 Testing Introduction

Please help iron7 – please go to WP7Comp and leave a comment and a like.

Thanks to the post from PhraseMeme - http://blog.phrasememe.com/2011/03/wp7comp-entry-statistics-total-likes.html

Currently, if you sort the list by total of (likes+comments+reactions) then the top 10 are:

Please help iron7 – please go to WP7Comp and leave a comment and a like.

If you are a developer and you like on-phone development, then please do support iron7!

Thanks!

Stuart

If you like Iron7, then please help support the project.

We’re currently entered into a competition - http://www.wp7comp.com/iron7-ruby-scripting-on-windows-phone-7/

By going to that page and leaving a positive comment and hitting the LIKE button, then you can help us win $10,000 to help pay for development.

If you like iron7, please go there and leave a comment.

I’ve finally started to checkin Iron7 to a branch of the IronRuby source – something I’ve been promising since December!

It’s currently uploaded to… https://github.com/slodge/main

Hopefully soon it will be pulled across to the main source tree at https://github.com/ironlanguages/main

Remember if you like Iron7, then please like and comment for us at http://www.wp7comp.com/iron7 – thanks.

SoloSailor46 just left this superb review of Iron7:

Scripting comes to WP7

I’m not happy about paying $99 a year so that I can write my own apps for my phone – IronRuby is an excellent alternative (even though I don’t know Ruby yet) Fortunately there are plenty examples to learn from. Iron7 supports the Windows Phone controls (such as panorama) as well as other compact framework features.

Pros: Object Oriented scripting for the windows phone, integration with an online scripting library

Cons: None

Thanks Also if anyone wants to support iron7, then please leave us positive feedback at:

www.wp7comp.com/iron7

– winning $10000 would definitely help fund more development – thanks again!

Here’s a shorter intro video – one that fits inside the 3 minute requirement for wp7comp.

If you like the app, please do vote for Iron7 over on wp7comp – any money won will help fund further development!

Here’s a couple of links to some other developers who have recently tried writing some Ruby on Windows Phone 7:

Justin James recently got his feet wet with IronRuby, and he was eager to use it in a real-world scenario. Find out what this Ruby novice thinks of using IronRuby to write a Windows Phone 7 application.

See http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/smartphones/use-ironruby-to-develop-a-windows-phone-7-app/2257

And:

In this post I just gonna go through how to get windows 7 phone up and running with ironruby, most are taken from Tomas Matousek but I had to make some customization for it to work!

See http://skyw00lker.wordpress.com/2011/02/16/windows-7-phone-ironruby/

I gave a quick (5 minutes!) talk on using IronRuby inside .NET applications yesterday at the superb DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper community conference at Microsoft Reading

If you’re interested, here are the slides:

Video of 1.0

On YouTube - http://bit.ly/overflow7

About

This is a Stack Overflow app for Windows Phone 7 – it allows you to browse, read and bookmark Stack Exchange sites

Screenshot

License

The app is available on the WP7 marketplace as a free never-ending trial – but if you want to purchase the app for 0.99 then you’ll help encourage me to add more features

Download

App is available on http://bit.ly/zuneoverflow7

Platform

Windows Phone 7 – WP7

Contact

I created the app – you can contact me via me[at]slodge[dot]com

I’d love to get feedback about what people want

Code

App is written in Silverlight-WP7 using hand-crafted MVVM (must start using a library like MVVM Light one day!)

I made use of the excellent Stacky library - link text

Versions

• 1.0 – first release
• 1.1 – major memory improvements (ListBox and VirtualizingStackPanel)
• 1.2 – a bug fix + major Markdown rendering improvements (links and images)
• 1.3 – addition of UserBadges to some displays

Here’s one of my side projects from iron7 : overflow7 – it’s a Window Phone 7 browser for Stack Overflow

Here’s a video explaining more: