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5 links, first saved December 25, 2007, latest April 10, 2009.
- Twitter Should Move Away from Ruby
Oh dear. The chattering classes are at it, talking about how the Twitter folks are dissing Ruby by announcing the replacement of some Ruby code with Scala code. Please stop.At the…
- See Rails request paths in 'top'
During our sale, we had one particular request that came in and wedged the application: every time it hit, the mongrel process size zoomed steadily up to 500Mb, so we had to kill…
- The Apple NDA is lifting...
A great huzzah! was heard through the land. Apple today announced that they will be lifting the NDA on the iPhone SDK. This is incredibly good news, as it means that, once lifted,…
- The 'Language' in Domain-Specific Language Doesn't Mean English (or French, or Japanese, or ...)
I'm a really big fan of Domain-Specific Languages. Andy and I plugged them back in '98 when writing The Pragmatic Programmer. I've written my share of them over the years, and…
- Ruby 1.9—Right for You?
As is becoming a tradition, Matz announced the next major release of Ruby on Christmas day. Let's start by thanking both him and the entire Ruby core team for the efforts to get…