Entries Tagged as 'ruby'
PHP’s shareability brings all the boys to the yard
A short followup to my PHP post from a couple days back… It spawned some interesting comments that got me thinking some more on the subject. Another post I came across pointed out some other really interesting points about PHP’s architecture.
Both in the comments and on Ian’s blog they note that basically it isn’t the [...]
Lessons to be learned from PHP
SEE ALSO: PHP’s shareability brings all the boys to the yard
I’ve been reading this latest thread of posts around the net concerning Ruby and shared hosts, or equivalently, ease of installation. Here’s one. Here’s another. And I’m glad, for Ruby, that they are talking about this problem - I hope for their sake they take [...]
Less Love for Ruby on Rails?
Nothing really that interesting, just in the past few days I’ve come across two posts not singing RoR’s praises. First was that post by Zed where he kinda goes off not necessarily in the most convincing way - but his words as the developer of Mongrel must carry weight. Strewn in that invective were some [...]
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On the ever impending demise of Perl
Scott (who has thankfully started blogging again) points out the new O’Reilly post showing the graph of technical book sales broken down by language.
Now among many other things this chart reveals that Ruby is way up in the ranks and perl (and surprisingly php, too) are down quite a bit. The chart is a comparison [...]
My general issue with Ruby
Sadly, I’ve had 0 time to get further along in my first ruby project, although significant functionality is already in place (not that there’s actually that much functionality). But as I’ve been going through both Ruby and Rails, it has struck me that all the convenience it gives you must surely come at a cost [...]
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Ruby by osmosis
Haven’t had much chance to work on my project since last week and this weekend a friend’s in town so I probably won’t get much done. Fortunately, Caitlin is picking up the slack and she’s hard at work learning ruby by osmosis.
Ruby vs Perl Arrays
One thing that you take for granted in perl is the interchangeability of lists and Arrays. That is, when you want a list, you can easily use an Array type, you may have to dereference that mutha, but you’re going to be able to use it and use it very conveniently. So, if you’re trying [...]
Rails: The Beginning
I finished up the Rails books this weekend and finally started coding up my first project. The project is a secret now not because it’s great but just because I like keeping secrets, it’s what gives my blog that special sauce that you all can’t get enough of. Or I don’t want to be embarrassed [...]
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Knee Deep in Rails
So, I’ve been slowly making some more headway into Agile Development with Rails. I’ve put behind me the intro section that was a bunch of chapters devoted to step by step building a little app. It was cool and an interesting way to put everything into perspective. Now I’m into the meat of the book [...]
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Working on the Rails Road
Well, I lost a little momentum last week as I got swamped with work, so I haven’t made as much progress into the Rails book as I would have liked. I guess that’s life. Nevertheless, I’m a bit more than 100 pages in and have a couple thoughts on the book and on Rails.
I’m very [...]
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