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Archives for October, 2008


Merb 1.0 For Ruby Emerges. Real Competition For Rails?

by Mark Driver  |  October 10, 2008  |  13 Comments

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 [...]

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Remember Smalltalk?

by Mark Driver  |  October 9, 2008  |  50 Comments

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++ [...]

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