Mark Driver

The Merb framework for Ruby has reached the big 1.0 with an impressive list of features. If you’ve never heard of it, consider Merb a second generation Ruby framework that takes many of the (sometime painful) lessons learned in Rails and applies them to a blank canvas.
I’ve predicted in Gartner research that the Ruby developer [...]

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I’ve often referred to Smalltalk as the ‘Latin’ of modern OO languages.  Most owe a tremendous debt to Smalltalk but the language itself has been relegated to a small niche of technology elites for several years now.  
Here a simply equation.  In terms of mental fortitude…
1 Smalltalk developer = 2.5 C++ developers
1 C++ Developer = 1.5 [...]

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