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Rails: First Impressions

Saturday, April 11th, 2009 Posted in Programming | No Comments »

Due primarily to overwhelming peer pressure, I'm finally trying Ruby on Rails.  Overall, it's living up to its reputation.  Rails makes it very easy and fast to get a web application off the ground and it gets the boring, repetitive ...

Playing with patterns in Python

Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in Programming | No Comments »

I've been reading Design Patterns by Gamma, et al.  because it's a somewhat interesting and influential book, and because programmers are widely expected to have read it.  But you don't become a better programmer by reading about programming, in the ...