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Java Makes You A Better Programmer?

April 29th, 2006

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.

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ideas, java, ruby, tools

BBC Television Program Info Searchable in RDF

April 27th, 2006

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…

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ruby, semanticweb, webservices, webtools

Making Javascript More Like Ruby

January 21st, 2006

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).

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ruby, webdev, webtools



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