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In my opinion there are three kinds of programming language. Toys: Languages that were designed by one person to scratch an itch or serve particular purpose, no more. Ruby was...
Read ArticleThoughtWorks’ resident language inventor Ola Bini will be visiting Sydney in September. Ola is one of the four committers on the JRuby project (now the fastest Ruby runtime) and the...
Read ArticleThe agile family of software development methodologies is now pretty firmly established. Developers have always been some of the most firm supporters of these approaches. And as developers, we like...
Read ArticleGeorge Orwell’s 1984 is rightly a hugely famous novel of the twentieth century. His depiction of a totalitarian future was so griping and compelling that the words and phrases he...
Read ArticleRFC 2806: a URL scheme for describing phone numbers. A URL looks like tel:+1-312-555-4589. Cute. I didn’t know this existed. But Mobile Safari on the iPhone does. It seems more...
Read ArticlePreviously, I’ve mentioned that I’ve written a script that will show a Twitter user who they and another Twitter user both follow.
Read ArticleWhen you’re a Twitter’er you will often be in a situation where someone follows you, and you’re wondering, ‘Who is this person? Do I know them?’ Well, I can’t answer...
Read ArticleSay you’re a bright young kid at Univeristy and you’ve decided that computer science is what you want to do with your life. What should you start doing with yourself...
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