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1
The Next Big Thing: An Opinionated Google Search
(Tangential thoughts triggered by techno.blog("Dion")....
Oct 16, 2008
1:56:29 PM
2
Unit Tests Are Not Enough
The new and improved It's Just a Bunch of Stuff That Happens—which went off the air briefly, as I noted 37 days ago—is back with renewed, focused energy and is as penetratingly insightful as ever. In a post yesterday, Eric gave a concrete ...
Sep 26, 2007
11:20:16 PM
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The End Of The Ruby Hype (Re: Top 10 Reasons Java Sucks)
Obie Fernandez: I'm not really much into evangelizing Ruby and Rails much nowadays. You know, since we won, I have to admit that it became boring and besides the point. However, this FUDdy discussion on the Hibernate blog got me riled up and I'm in a ...
Sep 20, 2007
7:33:57 AM
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Google Web Toolkit, JRuby At The JUG
We had one of those days at the St. Louis JUG yesterday. An hour before the meeting, right around the time when folks would leave work for the JUG meeting, it rained really hard. Once we arrived, we found the auditorium door locked. The building person ...
May 11, 2007
9:38:42 AM
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Java News Brief (JNB): JRuby
This month's Java News Brief (JNB) features Mark Volkmann introducing JRuby the up-and-coming dynamic language for the JVM. Mark Volkmann: Ahh Ruby... If you didn't already have at least a small interest in Ruby you probably wouldn't be reading this ...
Apr 4, 2007
2:42:07 PM
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Will It Be JRuby vs. IronPython?
On the heels of Microsoft's release of IronPython 1.0 comes the news that Sun has hired the two primary JRuby developers. I don't know if Sun intended it, but the juxtaposition of these two news item gives the effect that the two managed execution ...
Sep 7, 2006
2:53:50 PM
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Risks of Ruby
Bruce Tate on InfoQ: Myth versus reality: Rails is a silver bullet. People have failed with Rails, and many more will fail. If you apply it without the requisite skills, you'll fail too. On a similar note, if Java's not your problem, Ruby will not be ...
Aug 31, 2006
7:40:24 PM
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Major Security Hole Found In Rails
kjart on Slashdot comments: ...and hundreds die in the resulting crash. When interviewed later the conductor said that he wishes he was told where the hole was so he could've stopped the train in time.
Aug 10, 2006
7:31:51 AM
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InfoQ---Technical Articles That Make Sense
I haven't read all the postings on the new (well, launched in June of this year) InfoQ website. However, of the articles I did read, I have found them to be quite informative and technically astute. Give it a try. I'm considering making it part of my ...
Jul 17, 2006
11:27:18 PM
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The Re-education Of A Ruby Brush-er-Off-er
I made it no secret that I did not buy all the Ruby hype, not when Curt Hibbs worked at OCI, not after attending Dave Thomas's and Bruce Tate's Ruby talks at NSJF, not when most of the Java developers around me started to go the the St. Louis Ruby User's ...
Jun 19, 2006
3:07:07 PM
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Ruby Thought Leader Retracts Attack on Father Of Java
(A few days ago, the blogosphere is abuzz with attacks on James Gosling for a comment he made at a conference. The Ruby people was particularly vicious.) Curt Hibbs: UPDATE: It turns out that’s not precisely what he said… close, but enough of a ...
Mar 24, 2006
8:05:07 AM
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Java People, Stop Worrying and Start Coding!
I classify myself as one of those developers who don't get Ruby, just like I don't get Perl. Both are too hard for me. And there seems to be something in my brain that prevents me from learning both. It's strange I never had the problem with C or C++ ...
Dec 22, 2005
6:13:20 PM