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Daily Archives: March 27th, 2008

Sustainable Development in Ruby, Part 1: Good Old-Fashioned Inheritance

The first technique we’ll look at in this series is something so basic it may not even seem worth spelling out. But sometimes old-school techniques are overlooked in the excitement of a young language.

Let’s use as our example a hypothetical communications protocol, Flying Monkey Transport Protocol (FMTP). Flying Monkey Transport Protocol is a packet-based […]