It is pretentious for me suggest my own name be attached to something. Therefore I will not request that this be named in my honor, but I would like to release this law to the world.
As a discussion related to speed, efficiency or convenience of a ‘program’ grows longer, the probabilty of someone telling [...]
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Now that’s quality! I realize that The Pragmatic Programmers’ site is [...]
I’ve been doing the computer thing for over 10 years now. I’ve been programming for most of them. I know a bunch of languages, technologies and other doodads.
To this day almost nothing can compete with the feeling I get from creating an efficient, elegant computer program. Well, some things can. We’ll [...]
Marcus recently said some things about languages that I agree with whole heartedly: Pick your weapon and go to town!
It’s the tools that make languages useful. Rails is always an example because it’s Ruby’s killer app. The tools don’t make the language, but they certainly draw moths to the flame. So here’s to linguistic [...]
I try to like you, I really do. I want to use your phenomenal cosmic power to make my life easier. Disclaimer: I’m on OS X w/the default 1.8.2 install.Today, I installed Rails and said: “During lunch, I’m gonna start porting my app to Ruby On Rails!” I already have Postgres installed, [...]
Dave Heinemeier Hanson of Ruby On Rails and 37signals fame posted an interesting tidbit about how companies should be hiring people: Reduce the risk, hire from open source. I think is a fantastic idea.
Unfortunately, most companies don’t work the way 37signals does. As far as I can tell, they are a hardcore Ruby [...]
A recurring comment I see concerning Rails is that it allows small groups of people to do amazing things in insanely short periods of time.
This might be true. With or without Rails, I contend that small groups of smart people have been producing applications in relatively short periods of time. I’ve read about, met, [...]
I discovered the concept of AppCasting today. It’s an RSS feed that uses the enclosure to hold a URL to the release of your application. Throw in your ChangeLog and a message and, voila, instant announcement to all the people that subscribe. I plan to implement this for Telemetry. It would be [...]
Let’s all circle jerk and marvel at the amazingness that is drag ‘n drop ordering in 37signal’s Backpack.
I’m subscribed to just a few blogs that talk about Ruby, and every damn one of them posts this with a wide-eyed vigor that Java people can only hope to match.
Congratulations guys, you have raised the celebration of [...]