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ideas & java & ruby & tools rich.campoamor on 29 Apr 2006

Java Makes You A Better Programmer?

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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ruby & semanticweb & webservices & webtools rich.campoamor on 27 Apr 2006

BBC Television Program Info Searchable in RDF

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 & webdev & webtools rich.campoamor on 21 Jan 2006

Making Javascript More Like 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).

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