Roop says

I would have to assume that there are plenty of developers out there that want to install JRuby and Ruby on the same machine. There is a tragic flaw with this, the gem command is the same for both. If you add both to the path there is no way to distinguish between the […]

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I have recently become frustrated with the Eclipse IDE. I use 3.2 to do my java development, Flex Builder to do Flex development and Aptana RadRails for Ruby and Rails stuff. This last week I almost cracked and purchased TextMate , to see what all the fuss was, but since Aptana just […]

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About a week ago now someone commented on my Buildr review post about a possible tutorial on how to use Buildr. I thought about writing something up, but then I remember that I had purchased the MacHeist Bundle a few weeks back and that came with Snapz Pro x. So I decided to […]

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Is this another rant?….Yes. I apologize for all the rants lately, but hopefully there is some educational value woven throughout my posts, and besides I promised this one.
Lets start with a history lesson…
In the beginning there was assembly, the language that changed with each machine architecture. The machines ran quick and required little […]

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This past weekend I had the pleasure to attend a local conference, acts_as_conference. The conference was described as an event that was focused on Ruby on Rails, but it seemed to be much more focused on Ruby, with Rails in mind. Overall I think the conference was a great success at $100 a […]

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What?!?1?!/!? That is right, I said it Java is not statically typed and by proxy is not safer than dynamic languages. Zealots HALT! We can fix this, and I intend to add some gas to the fire that people like Bob Lee over at crazybob.org have started.
So let me start by saying […]

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Lately at my office there has been some conversation about dynamic languages, and which one we should be investigating to replace dead languages like, ColdFusion, there I said it. Luckily one of the dynamic language junkies left to go work for Netscape, now Propellar, because he was a Python fan boy. I looked a little […]

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Anyone who has been following my blog, probably knows that I have been working on some PoC work with Buildr at my office. Well when it came down to it, my boss and I decided that Buildr just isn’t quite ready for our office. After we came to the sad realization that I wouldn’t […]

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I was researching the execution time difference between static and instance method calls today and came across an old Java forum thread about the topic. I was looking for performance information, but everyone in the thread was focusing on “good <abbr title=”object oriented>OO</a> practices”, and I was astonished as to what I was reading. […]

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I should start this post off by apologizing to the Buildr folks for taking so long to write up this review. I should also point out that I am currently attempting to contribute to this project, I don’t believe that sways my opinion at all since I choose to contribute after I reviewed the […]

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