Review: 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
Imagine you asked 97 people who have had some experience in the software industry what they think every programmer should know. That is precisely what you get with this crowd sourced collection of tips from O'Reilly. I received a free copy of the e-book as a part of the O'Reilly blogger review program and here is my take on it.
Continue Reading...Review: Randal Schwartz on Learning Perl (Video)
Randal Schwartz, author of O'Reilly's Learning Perl (The Llama book), presents a 2 day video course covering the majority of the content from the book. This video presentation recreates a classroom setting that provides a unique and insightful introduction to the Perl language along with it's community and culture. Continue Reading...Another go with Rails 3 on Windows
It has been awhile since we last looked at Rails 3 on Windows and a lot has changed. Continue Reading...Ruby is too tightly coupled
I Love Ruby. Unfortunately "require 'ruby'" brings in unrelated cruft that I don't love. That has led me to the opinion that Ruby is too tightly coupled. I am not a VM implementor, I haven't even looked at the source code of Ruby itself, so how, you might ask, have I come to this conclusion? Here are a few modules that are automatically included when I require 'ruby' Continue Reading...Massaging Rails 3 Beta on Windows
[Update:Quite a lot has changed since this post was written. See Another Go with Rails 3 on Windows for a more up to date Rails 3 on Windows guide.
]So you've read the blog posts and seen the tweets and retweets about the early Christmas present that is the official Rails 3 beta. Here I share my experience of trying to bring it to life on Windows. Continue Reading...
From Zero to Rails3 on Windows in 600 seconds
Want to give Rails3 a test run but you're on Windows and you're not sure where to start? Read on for a guide to installing Rails3 with Ruby 1.9.1 and sqlite3 from scratch on Windows using the awesome bundler gem. Continue Reading...Heroku my Hero!
Thanks to Heroku for providing a great service. I am now hosting this blog on Heroku via Radiant CMS for free! New content coming soon…
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