Reflections on code, the things I read and what I've been up to.
A couple of long standing problems in the world of Ruby have been dealing with all the gems that are so easy to toss into your project and the differences...
Read ArticleMuch, but refreshingly not all, of the arguments about WikiLeaks have focussed on whether or not WikiLeaks was right to leak those diplomatic cables. Do governments have the right to...
Read ArticleIn 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 ArticleAustralia in all its cultural majesty has co-opted yet another foreign tradition: hallowe’en. An ancient pagan European tradition celebrating the movement of dark forces through the night. The Americans took...
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 ArticleThere are now nine people in the world who have walked on the moon, and unless something dramatic happens …, it won't be long before there are none. That might...
Read ArticleI’ve been wondering why I dislike twitter hashtag memes so much. But it’s pretty obvious really: it doesn’t matter how unexpected and funny the original concept was, the world has...
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