The impression I’ve gotten from working with ruby is that it’s generally fun to work with. One of my coworkers who has about a year of experience told me: You become happy from working with ruby. Also, for many tasks it can provide a easier experience than some of the alternatives. Consider the tasks: Manage builds or server Simple web app Tools like rake and sinatra are simple enough to help green developers complete the task without drowning in the complexity. It’s the same reasoning behin[...]

The impression I’ve gotten from working with ruby is that it’s generally fun to work with. One of my coworkers who has about a year of experience told me: You become happy from working with ruby. Also, for many tasks it can provide a easier experience than some of the alternatives. Consider the tasks: Manage builds or server Simple web app Tools like rake and sinatra are simple enough to help green developers complete the task without drowning in the complexity. It’s the same reasoning behind webmat[...]

The impression I’ve gotten from working with ruby is that it’s generally fun to work with. One of my coworkers who has about a year of experience told me: - You become happy from working with ruby. Also, for many tasks it can provide a easier experience than some of the alternatives. Consider the tasks: - Manage builds or server - Simple web app Tools like rake and sinatra are simple enough to help green developers complete the task without drowning in the complexity. It’s the same reasoning behind webmatr[...]

Why is Typescript more interesting than coffeescript and similar constructs? Typescript is an extension of the javascript language. If you avoid the syntactic sugar for classes and modules in typescript, but it still can be very helpful (perhaps a sweet addition to jshint). It avoids the assembler of the web problems. I don’t agree with the reasoning about the reasoning about write large applications. It would be horrible if you write javascript and avoid writing good code and instead use the type system a[...]

One of the fears is that the days of PC is considered over. That we there will be a massive shift towards a reduction of the interface. Some have pointed out that the start screen on Windows 8: It’s Almost Not Terrible. Gartner sums it up in a word: Bad for desktops (however he also says that it’s very fine on touch device). This all sounds very odd. However, the negativity mostly centered around how to use the start screen on a desktop might not be such a big deal. Hanselman among others assures that you [...]