Tim Bray has a brief posting with what is likely to turn out to be an incendiary issue: if you come from a Java background, you will write better librarys (and code) in other languages than if you didn’t have a Java background. I can see this particularly outraging much of the Ruby crowd, who seemingly live to smugly disparage anything that is not Ruby.
technorati tags: java, ruby, programming, ideas
Apparently this site (open.bbc.co.uk) contains 75 years worth of information about every program that the BBC has aired over the years in a searchable format using semantic web technologies under the covers.
I wanted to try this out and write about it a bit, but apparently the site is not responding. Is this a server problem or a Ruby problem? Either way it probably has to due with enormous demand at the rollout of this new tool. I guess we will find out later…
technorati tags: bbc, rdf, semanticweb, webtools, ruby
Over at Ajaxian, there is a discussion on Kavascript which is an attempt to make javascript a bit more like Ruby and Perl.
The general consensus seems to be that this is a very, very, bad idea (pre-compilation = debugging nightmare).
technorati tags: ajax, ruby, javascript
