A colleague of mine recently predicted that Ruby would overtake PHP in the next 2 years. Another colleague recently commented on the way Java is trying to makeover its midlife crisis “Java 5 is not innovation; it is contact lenses and a toupee. ” One thing I know is that Java will not always [...]

A colleague of mine recently predicted that Ruby would overtake PHP in the next 2 years. Another colleague recently commented on the way Java is trying to makeover its midlife crisis “Java 5 is not innovation; it is contact lenses and a toupee. ” One thing I know is that Java will not always [...]

Pragmatic programmer Dave Thomas (Prag Dave) has written another entry in his excellent blog about the differences in languages [“Is Ruby Better than… ?”], particularly the punditry around comparing Ruby to Java. Something that I have recently been somewhat guilty of. If you ask any of my colleagues about my choices in...

Pragmatic programmer Dave Thomas (Prag Dave) has written another entry in his excellent blog about the differences in languages [“Is Ruby Better than… ?”], particularly the punditry around comparing Ruby to Java. Something that I have recently been somewhat guilty of. If you ask any of my colleagues about my choices in...

I’m getting anxious for the No Fluff Just Stuff [link] conference. It’ll be here October 7-9th, and will be a great event. I’m also a bit nervous, as my company is not exactly sure they are willing to send me again (went to the Des Moines show in July), and said that [...]

I’m getting anxious for the No Fluff Just Stuff [link] conference. It’ll be here October 7-9th, and will be a great event. I’m also a bit nervous, as my company is not exactly sure they are willing to send me again (went to the Des Moines show in July), and said that [...]

I decided to show the Ruby code that I recently wrote, and then wrote a comparable version in java. Check out the results.

I decided to show the Ruby code that I recently wrote, and then wrote a comparable version in java. Check out the results.

I have been playing with Ruby off and on for a while now (since the Des Moines No Fluff Just Stuff conference) and am finally starting to become productive with it. My copy of pickaxe came in early last week, so things have really picked up. On Friday I wrote my [...]

I have been playing with Ruby off and on for a while now (since the Des Moines No Fluff Just Stuff conference) and am finally starting to become productive with it. My copy of pickaxe came in early last week, so things have really picked up. On Friday I wrote my [...]

Disclaimer: I'm probably being a complete dolt on this topic... please chime in and let me know what you think. The other night I helped my wife dig out what will one day be a patio and retaining wall from the side of a gentle slope in our backyard. While digging out hard-packed clay I started to think about a talk that Ted Neward gave at the...

Disclaimer: I'm probably being a complete dolt on this topic... please chime in and let me know what you think. The other night I helped my wife dig out what will one day be a patio and retaining wall from the side of a gentle slope in our backyard. While digging out hard-packed clay I started to think about a talk that Ted Neward gave at the...

I was given the opportunity recently to work on a from-scratch project. We are using JSF for the front end, Hibernate for the data persistance teir, and Spring to wire them together. The app is running in WebSphere Portal, with a DB2 database, both on Linux. RAD 6 is our IDE. It has been a blast to build a full application from scratch. We are...

I was given the opportunity recently to work on a from-scratch project. We are using JSF for the front end, Hibernate for the data persistance teir, and Spring to wire them together. The app is running in WebSphere Portal, with a DB2 database, both on Linux. RAD 6 is our IDE. It has been a blast to build a full application from scratch. We are...

Linky Here is a quote: " In fact, Rails makes Ajax so easy that for typical cases it's no harder to use Ajax than it is not to!" Thats just sexy! Well, I know what I'm gonna be doing tonight. ;D