Is Ruby too clever?
Before we go there, personally, I think that Perl is clever language. Damned clever! The magical tricks you can do in Perl’s land of plenty is unreal. As such, Perl tends to attract clever people that wrestle with this huge bunking behemoth of a language in a vain attempt to wrestle it under [...]
Off the Rails…
Well that was strange!
After following some rather smashing guides for configuring your Mac for Rails, I needed a good tutorials for writing your first Rails web application. The funny thing is that if you haven’t got a web site that is database backed, most of the Hello World Rails Tutorials are pretty [...]
Meta Programming in Ruby – Part One
def warning
This is written by a Java programmer currently learning Ruby. It’s really a note to myself. I’ve found the best way learn something, is to write about it. Please, those in the know, I would appreciate comments on glaring errors and/or omissions…
end
So, there I was happily stepping through the on-line version of Programming Ruby (currently [...]
Ruby – The language of choice?
Okay, I have caught the Ruby bug. It’s like an itch, the more I scratch it, the more it needs to be scratched. Ruby is a great language. That’s a fact. Rails is a great web framework. That’s a fact. Somewhat over-hyped at the moment, but Rails will find it right place soon enough.
However, I’m more [...]
Time to Mingle?
I recently saw a demo of the Thoughtworks product to manage Agile IT projects called Mingle. I must admit that it did look quite impressive and fills a very large gap in the agile project management tool market. I have been road testing a number of products in this space for some time now, more [...]
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