“Hi, I’m Ruby on Rails…”
Since there’s considerable overlap between the Cult of Mac and the Cult of Rails, it was inevitable some Rails enthusiasts would make Rails advocacy videos borrowing from the style of the popular “I’m...
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JRuby 1.0 Released!
It hasn’t even been a year since Sun hired JRuby contributors Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo to work on it full-time. It’s been an even shorter period since Ola Bini (whom I had the pleasure of...
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The Lightswitch That Might Explain a Lot About Java
John Maeda at The Laws of Simplicity has an interesting photo of a lightswitch at Sun Labs: Click the photo to see the original. He writes: I gave a talk at Sun Labs where I encountered a special light...
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23 Programming Languages Compared
Possibly inspired by articles like Tim O’Reilly’s State of the Computer Book Market (here are parts one, two, three and four of the Q1 2007 edition of this series) posts on the O’Reilly Radar blog,...
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Monkey Knife Fight! (or: Not Much Has Changed)
Seems Like Old Times Back in December 2005, I wrote a blog article talking about the blog shooting war between Java and Ruby advocates that erupted over which approach was better: the one taken by...
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The Language Adoption Debate and “Three Stooges Syndrome”
Tim “Ongoing” Bray’s Take Tim Bray posted a blog entry on what drives adoption of a language in which he included some tables such as the only below: Flawed Founders Polished Successors Procedural...
View ArticleHello, 2008! Will Java Strike Back?
Java’s nickname, “The New COBOL”, as a badge of honour: “…considering COBOL’s standing in the industry: It’s not clear that being the ‘new COBOL’ is actually a bad thing. It may not be glamorous,...
View ArticleWhat I Learned From Java That Makes Me a Better Programmer When I Use Ruby
One lesson that Nathan Weizenbaum learned from Java that makes him a better Ruby programmer: “I learned what I was abstracting. I learned what blocks are, why dynamic typing is useful, what it means to...
View Article17 Thousand Reasons I AM a Ruby on Rails Developer
The blogger at willcode4beer says in 17 Thousand Reasons I’m not a Ruby on Rails Developer that the median salary of Rails developers is on average $17K less than that for J2EE developers. I’m not...
View ArticlePython and Java: A Side-by-Side Comparison
This side-by-side comparison of Java and Python shows why I prefer working in languages like Python and Ruby: the “yak shaving” that Java requires drives me crazy.
View ArticleAnd the “Static vs. Dynamic” Battle Rages On…
After reading Bill Burke’s article, Dynamic Languages: Rationalizations and Myths, you might also want to look at Patrick Logan’s articles, Dynamic Languages: Should the Tools Suck? and Deeper Dynamics.
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Open Source Language Roundtable Webcast: Wednesday, July 22nd
O’Reilly’s conference on Open Source, OSCON, takes place this week in San Jose, California. One of the events taking place at OSCON is the Open Source Language Roundtable, the abstract for which...
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Maritime DevCon: June 18th in Moncton
If you’re a developer out in the Maritimes, you might want to check out Derek Hatchard’s Maritime Dev Con, which takes place on June 18th in Moncton. It’s a single-afternoon, two-track conference –...
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