For the past 20 years I have been writing server based and application software on the Microsoft stack. First in C/C++ leveraging the Win32 API and then in C# when .Net first was released. Over the past few months I have realized that trying to build scalable code on the Microsof...
Git has a lot of features, and I bet that 90% of who use it (including me) doesn’t know half of them. Well, maybe, someday, one of those “unknown features” can “save your life”.
Rails 3.1 introduced the asset pipeline, which makes it easy to include versioned external assets as application dependencies.
Since I’ve seen the new Basecamp, I fell in love with it.
So, I just bought “Seven Languages in Seven Weeks”. I’ve read the Ruby chapter, not a big deal at all, so I skipped it. I also skip Io, Prolog and Scala (for now), and then, fall in Erlang!
After a while using Jekyll Bootstrap, I just realized that it was so much bloated. Then, few days ago, I forked the old Zach Holman’s blog, and started to tweak my own theme based on theirs (that now is opensource). At first, I like it, but after a while, I just start think...
So, I just compiled a little list of things that, I believe, make me dislike Java everyday a little more.
A couple of days ago I wrote about how to build a simple and non intrusive AJAX status with CoffeeScript in RubyOnRails.
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