On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 09:05, Michael Reiland
wrote:
> I'm not sure I understand the claim that reading blogs keeps your skills
> "modern and sharp". I would think practicing your craft would have more of
> an effect on that then reading someone's opinion about something.
Agreed -- but practic
On 10/13/2011 8:54 PM, Dave Aronson wrote:
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:28, Michael Reiland
wrote:
I think the idea that rails needs extra smart programmers is a bit silly.
It's a bit like a blog author who tells his audience they're in the top
echelon simply by reading his or her blog.
A
Hi Andrew,
You can show your co-worker this movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQbuyKUaKFo
Regards,
Noven
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On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:28, Michael Reiland
wrote:
> I think the idea that rails needs extra smart programmers is a bit silly.
> It's a bit like a blog author who tells his audience they're in the top
> echelon simply by reading his or her blog.
A while back, some programming blog (Coding Ho
I think the idea that rails needs extra smart programmers is a bit
silly. It's a bit like a blog author who tells his audience they're in
the top echelon simply by reading his or her blog.
Statements like those are a masturbatory fantasy that has no place in
the evaluation of technology stack
I have been a ruby developer for 4 years before ditching the language in
2010
The best way to figure out a skill and the amount of usage is websites
like
stackoverflow and the number of questions tagged ruby python java
Google trends gives you a fairly good idea too.
Now while ruby is far supe
> However, my co-worker mentioned that he thinks if we are switching, we should
> switch to
> Java because Ruby is a dying language.
Eeh, just show your co-worker the following chart:
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/Java.html
( Uuh and DON'T show him the Ruby Chart ;-((( )
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OH You should see the smiles on Java devs faces when they switch to Ruby.
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If there's a dying language of the two, I'd guess it was Java.
On Oct 9, 2011, at 4:14 PM, Robert Walker wrote:
> Andrew wrote in post #1025635:
>> However, my
>> co-worker mentioned that he thinks if we are sw
Andrew wrote in post #1025635:
> However, my
> co-worker mentioned that he thinks if we are switching, we should switch
> to
> Java because Ruby is a dying language.
>
> I just about fell out of my seat. *Dying* language? Far from it! Every
> company I know is deploying Ruby applications!
So you s
JavaScript tops the list at https://github.com/languages -- am wondering if
it refers to standalone apps being built entirely in Javascript, or it
includes libraries like jquery, dojo, etc which are used pretty much by
every web application. Any idea how github identifies languages?
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See popular languages on github:
https://github.com/languages
See popular websites built by RoR:
http://rubyonrails.org/applications
On Oct 7, 11:34 am, Andrew wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I work for a company that uses PHP. In my free time I write Ruby apps. My
> manager recently "discovered" Heroku
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