Posted in Code on Apr 10th, 2008
I recently changed hosting providers and I am still in the process of moving everything over. One headache that I don’t need is recreating all of the Subversion repositories that I had hosted on the old service. So, I have decided to move the code for my app_version plugin to GitHub.
The plugin’s code is now […]
Posted in Code on Aug 25th, 2007
I have been reading Practical Common Lisp and learning quite a lot in the process. However, I began to see a pattern emerging in the code that deals with objects that is also very common in Ruby. The pattern emerges where you have a class and you want to perform some initialization beyond what the […]
Posted in Tools on Aug 1st, 2007
There is a good article running over at SD Times titled “Study Predicts Upswing In Dynamic Language Use” (hat tip to James Robertson). Given how hot dynamic languages are right now I don’t think it would take Nostradamus to predict an upswing in use. The Forrester study mentioned in the article did have a few […]
Posted in Tools on May 2nd, 2007
With the advent of multi-core CPUs concurrency is becoming more important, but is traditional threading the way to go? The problem is that traditional threading is very difficult to get right. I am sure that are some cowboys out there who will respond to that last sentence by saying that “real programmers” don’t have a […]
Posted in Code on Mar 31st, 2007
A while back I began refactoring reusable pieces of code in my Rails applications into plugins. Overall this has been a successful strategy for keeping my application codebase clean. I have decided to release some of these plugins as open source in the hope that they are useful to someone else. The first plugin I […]
Posted in Tools on Sep 11th, 2006
I noted the release of IronPython 1.0 last week and wondered if it would run under Mono on my Mac. Turns out the answer is yes.
Update: It looks like the Gardens Point Ruby.NET Compiler also works under Mono (mostly).
Posted in Tools on Jul 15th, 2006
Someone recently ran a benchmark comparing Rails to Django and Symfony and the posted the results on the Rails wiki. The gist of the benchmark is that the author created some dynamic content in all three frameworks and then used siege to hammer the server with 50 and then 150 concurrent users. At 50 users […]
Posted in Code on Jul 10th, 2006
I have been playing around with Typo and decided to see how difficult it would be to try to migrate my content from WordPress. As it turns out, the conversion script that comes with Typo is completely non-functional with the pre-release version of Typo 4 and WordPress 2.0.x. Like a good open-source user I checked […]
Posted in Misc on Jun 30th, 2006
Summary:
Recently the buzz in the Ruby community has been focused around building Web 2.0(TM) applications in Rails. In fact, Ruby can also be used to build good looking desktop applications on Mac OS X using Ruby Cocoa.
Detail:
Recently the buzz in the Ruby community has been focused around building Web 2.0 applications in Rails. However, Ruby’s […]
Posted in Misc on Jun 25th, 2006
An earlier post suggested that reading outside of one’s field of interest is way to sharpen critical thinking (and, by extension, writing) skills. Another good approach is to diversify within a field. For developers this means learning a new programming language or environment.
So, what is a good language for a dyed in the wool Java […]
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