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Most rubyists know you can define a method on a single object like so: logger = Logger.new(STDOUT)... … View Post »

Most rubyists know you can define a method on a single object like so: logger = Logger.new(STDOUT)... … View Post »

Thats an interesting number... That number represents the 2008 budget allocation to the Department of Education... So, in a couple of weeks we are all going to make a decision... We can go out and buy a Playstation 3, make a payment on our car, or put it away for a rainy day... But that would effectively be taking money away from education and giving it to Sony, Toyota, and Bank of America... Instead, make the decision to use that money in a manner which would confound our Government... Make a statement... Counter the groupthink that will persuade most people to follow the masses and consume something... I hope this makes you think a bit about how you will be spending" your" $600... I hope you Don ' t Choose to consume... … View Post »

Thats an interesting number... That number represents the 2008 budget allocation to the Department of Education... So, in a couple of weeks we are all going to make a decision... We can go out and buy a Playstation 3, make a payment on our car, or put it away for a rainy day... But that would effectively be taking money away from education and giving it to Sony, Toyota, and Bank of America... Instead, make the decision to use that money in a manner which would confound our Government... Make a statement... Counter the groupthink that will persuade most people to follow the masses and consume something... I hope this makes you think a bit about how you will be spending" your" $600... I hope you Don ' t Choose to consume... … View Post »

Glyphobet makes some good points about Ruby, particularly about some of its lacking documentation... Glyphobet also makes a large blunder in the first sentence: A few weeks ago, I learned Ruby and Ruby on Rails to compare them head - to - head against Python and Pylons, in preparation for a new project... This is a joke, right?... Implementing one 1000 line library python> PottyMouth and all of a sudden your an expert?... Spending a few weeks learning a small portion of a language ( the portion needed to implement PottyMouth ) could only give you a cursory knowledge of the language and platform at best... The thing is, most of the time I like reading language comparison articles, especially ones that are written by thoughtful programmers who care much deeper about their craft than to spend useless energy writing flame posts... But its a waste to put so much effort into an article with only a few weeks experience... Thats why I take Zed Shaw's negative opinion of Ruby with greater weight than his recent positive opinion of Python... … View Post »

Glyphobet makes some good points about Ruby, particularly about some of its lacking documentation... Glyphobet also makes a large blunder in the first sentence: A few weeks ago, I learned Ruby and Ruby on Rails to compare them head - to - head against Python and Pylons, in preparation for a new project... This is a joke, right?... Implementing one 1000 line library python> PottyMouth and all of a sudden your an expert?... Spending a few weeks learning a small portion of a language ( the portion needed to implement PottyMouth ) could only give you a cursory knowledge of the language and platform at best... The thing is, most of the time I like reading language comparison articles, especially ones that are written by thoughtful programmers who care much deeper about their craft than to spend useless energy writing flame posts... But its a waste to put so much effort into an article with only a few weeks experience... Thats why I take Zed Shaw ' s negative opinion of Ruby with greater weight than his recent positive opinion of Python... … View Post »

Let those 9 numbers ring in your ears for it represents a failure of our democracy, another restriction of free speech perpetrated at the hands of the DMCA . Read the story here: 88.80.13.160… View Post »

Let those 9 numbers ring in your ears for it represents a failure of our democracy, another restriction of free speech perpetrated at the hands of the DMCA . Read the story here: 88.80.13.160… View Post »