I’ve been thinking a lot about the subject of professionalism in the context of software development lately. As I see it, there are two strains of professionalism. There are, for lack of a better term, “professionalistic” developers. To be professionalistic is to adopt the trappings of professionalism while missing out on the underlying attitude. These […]
You’re an amateur developer until you realize that everything you write sucks. – Coding Horror
Utility Belt is a grab-bag of IRB extensions to make your Ruby REPLing easier.
It’s worth the install just for the edit command, which allows you to shell out to your favorite editor in order to edit more complex input. But there’s a lot of other good stuff there too.
Eric.weblog() reminded me of an excellent interview with Anders Hejlsberg on generics in C#, Java, and C++. Anders is the kind of person you want in charge of designing a language. In the interview he demonstrates a deep knowledge of the how competing languages implement generics, and the implications of those design decisions. […]
I played around with jQuery a little over the weekend. I’m fairly impressed. The obvious comparison is with Prototype, but I can’t really make that comparison because almost all the Prototype work I’ve done has been automatically generated by Rails. Certainly the code I hand-wrote over the weekend seems more concise and […]
Via Exploring Beautiful Languages: the Pimp My Library pattern.
Observations:
“Pimp My Library” is way cooler than “Decorator“ or “Wrap Class”. I really want to spend some quality time with Scala.