Go away Ruby
I’ve been reading the RESTful Web Services book. I like it a lot. The only thing I don’t like is that there is too much Ruby in it. Ruby, please, go away. Might be a good scripting language, I don’t...
View ArticleClueless, Unclear, or Both on Ruby?
In my previous blog, Go Away Ruby, Andy Oliver got a little upset with me in the comments section. In typical Andy style, he likes to strut the one thing he knows to show how much smarter he is than...
View ArticleJRuby and ActiveHibernate
No, I’m not changing my mind about Ruby just yet, I’m just building up debate ammo actually. :) Anyways…I’ve been trying to read up on Ruby, Rails, and ActiveRecord lately and came across two different...
View ArticleDynamic Languages: Rationalizations and Myths
The Patriots loss in the Superbowl has gotten me so depressed and down that I need to take it out on somebody. I need to rant about something, so why not about some things that have annoyed me over the...
View ArticleOther dynamic language propaganda
One of the commenters of my last blog reminded me of yet another myth: If you learned to code in the XXX dynamic language way you’d need to rely a lot less on your IDE. And Joe Johnson wasn’t the first...
View ArticleAnti-IDE Myths
Well, if you were wondering who my evangelist colleague was in my “Dynamic Languages: Rationalizations and Myths” blog, wonder no more. Please go read Steve Vinoski’s comments, they are a good read....
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