Entries Categorized as 'Ruby'

PHP, Groovy and language evolution

Date May 28, 2008

I’ve been using PHP since early 1996, back in the PHP/FI days.  I’ve used it steadily over the years, sometimes full time and sometimes part time, but that’s been pretty much a primary language for me for 12 years now.  During that time I’ve seen a lot of language changes, some for better and some [...]

Ted Neward on Grails/Rails

Date February 3, 2008

Ted Neward does a good job of dissecting a post from Stu @ Relevance on ‘How to pick a platform’.  I won’t repeat everything said in those posts - they each do a better job of representing their positions than I could.  I would take exception to Ted’s comment towards the end of his post:
My [...]

Latest podcast up

Date January 27, 2008

I had a good conversation with Joe Fiorini about balancing his daily work in .NET with a passion and enthusiasm for Ruby on Rails.  Have a listen.
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Why is SUN ignoring PHP, Groovy and other languages?

Date January 19, 2008

I’ve had a love/hate relationship with Sun for many moons.  They give us OpenOffice, Java, etc. on the one hand, but then come up with byzantine licensing structures (CDDL was Sun, right?  and SCSL was for sure) and get antagonistic towards JBoss and others on occasion.  Ultimately, trying to ascribe a single mindset to Sun [...]

Raleigh web job market

Date October 25, 2007

If you’re in the Raleigh area and are looking for a job in the web development market, give me a holler - I’ve had recruiters calling night and day.  AND they’re not all calling with the same position.  That used to happen once in a while - I’d have calls from three recruiters that were [...]

Few ideas from last week

Date July 29, 2007

I had a few ideas from last week that I wanted to throw out here for posterity.
Grahame was talking about Haskell, and I asked if he was going to wait for JHaskell - or Jaskell - before adopting it. We then quickly realized Raskell (a ruby version) and Paskell (php/perl/python version) would be good [...]

Linux distros - does personality matter?

Date July 26, 2007

I got a question from my brother the other day about why Mandriva wasn’t as well received as a distro.  It’s his primary distro, and was mine for about 2 years.  I don’t think there’s all that much ‘wrong’ with it, but I went to ubuntu about 2 years ago, mostly to ride the momentum [...]

Do you ever cut corners?

Date May 29, 2007

This is a general question, but possibly aimed at the PHP crowd more because it’s often easier to cut corners when doing development than in other languages.
“Cutting corners” can mean almost anything from skipping unit tests to skipping documentation to lax variable names to almost anything that you know isn’t optimal but you skip for [...]

Feeling groovy

Date April 17, 2007

I attneded the local java group last night to hear Scott Davis speak about Groovy.  My colleague Grahame came along as well.  Scott did a great job of going in to enough detail to show the power of Groovy, without going overboard.  I recorded the event on audio, and may put that up either here [...]

Learning new technologies

Date January 7, 2007

I’m in the midst of learning multiple new technologies, and I think I have to stop, or at least slow down. A personality trait I’ve had for a long time is taking on too many multiple projects at the same time, and in the last year or so I’ve been realizing it gets my [...]