I. Linguistics We are programming languages – they can certainly be compared to natural languages Regional dialects are crazy. Can I get a coke? Pop is delicious. Jargons and cants differ not in grammar but in vocabulary. Hmmm . ...
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Jruby is already kind of an easy sell in big companies. It’s the quickness of rails with the familiarity of java. But… I’m not trying to to sell JRuby to enterprises [well clearly, or else he wouldn’t be giving this talk at...
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This guy was creating an embedded system, and basically just wanted to test out ruby. Hard to blame a guy for that. Back in the day, we had low-level languages, slow computers, and less tools. These days we have high-level languages, fast computers,...
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Adhearsion is not a rails plugin. Rails is certainly hot though. After all, the web is hot. Telecom, at least historically, is not at all hot. Enter VoIP. Asterisk, the defacto standard, has a fairly tough-to-get-into codebase. Maybe adhearsion can...
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Astels from google (et al). Chelimsky from Articulate Man (et al). Tests are nice. Tests should focus on design and documentation. Behavior driven development (BDD) emphasizes design, documentation, and, of course, behavior. They demonstrated some...
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