Hello, Ran across this one today which you guys might find interesting. It's a pretty good summary of the advantages of agile methodologies that you can hand...
The ruby list just posted a few good links for getting started with Ruby. http://rubyforge.org/docman/?group_id=251 http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/ruby/0.3/...
On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 17:58:44 -0000, Mark W. Windholtz ... I've been ripping through this one. http://www.rubycentral.com/book/index.html I don't know if it's...
Hey, I learned a lot at the meeting last night. Thanks for being kind to this here Python fan. :) Looking forward to the next one. -- Thomas G. Willis ...
It looks like you nailed the definition of "self-similarity" as explained in the linked book review. (As if I should somehow be shocked by your command of the...
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 09:32:59 -0500, William Barnett ... Will the "10 things..." be posted somewhere? I'd like to have someone take a look at it. I'm sure it...
Dear Pete, I have been involved with a Java traing group at the Job Search Focus Group for the last year and we are using Deitel & Deitel's "Java How To ...
xp-cinci, I've been using RDoc off the web. But then it occured to me, "Isn't Rails RDoc also installed with Rails?" So, I looked around the disk. Where is it?...
... Assmuming you installed rails with rubygems, then start the gem_server program and point your browser to http://localhost:8808. -- -- Jim Weirich...
On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 17:41:36 -0000, Mark W. Windholtz ... 'rm -fr \-?' is a pain?! OK, so I noticed the same funky behavior and found that I had to escape the...
Use: rm -rf -- '-?' The double dash tells rm that everything after that is a file name, not an option. The question mark should be quoted or escaped because if...
Another way to delete the file. If your directory is ~/www/-? cd ~/ rm -rf www/-\? As long as the - is not at the beginning of the argument you should be ok....
I just stumbled across the following articles about Ruby On Rails. Where Curt Hibbs' original OnLAMP tutorial addressed the step by step "hows" of building a...
Anyone here inherited a J2ee app that wasn't really documented and had no unit tests etc...?? me too. I just found this thing called beanshell. c:\>java -jar...
For extended syntax you can integrate groovy into your project as well. One of our past projects used an admin webpage that allows the submission of java code...
My very own copy of PickAxe 2nd edition landed on my doorstep yesterday. I skimmed the sections and found out that many of my beginner questions are handled...
xp-cinci, How do I write to a log file from inside Rails? It looks like puts "something" ... will write to the http response output stream not to stdout. ...
... Do you want to write to the standard Rails log file? Then use: RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.info("Informational message") (also debug, info, warn, error, and...
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Another take on the static/dynamic typing discussion. I still think that the most significant advance in programmer productivity is the IDE and, currently,...
Yeah I saw this today, and I'm in the middle of a debate with a bunch of colleagues on it today. I agree a good IDE on the level of eclipse or Visual Studio...
I just thought of something, and I'm not a patterns expert by any means.... Most patterns books have code in statically typed languages. That I've seen anyway....
Tom, There is a small talk design patterns book. I had it for awhile, but gave it away to a smalltaker. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Good to know. Is it this one? http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201184621/qid=1110904215/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-3668727-5232930?v=glance&s=books ...