The first Madison Ruby on Rails user group is meeting tonight at MATC downtown. I’ve heard we are expecting over thirty people, which is pretty impressive for a town where the Java user groups typically get twenty to thirty people. The mailing list is at google groups here, and we also have a [...]
Andy Hunt answers the question a lot of people are asking: Why Ruby?
It stays out of your way
It just works
Ruby’s not perfect, by any means, it’s got dark corners to the language just like every other language. But it has a lot fewer [...]
Finally figured out why ruby wasn’t picking up openssl when I was installing it from the tarball. This was resulting in switchtower not working, which was really driving me crazy as I’m trying to get this box ready for deployments. Well, I guess I’m not sure exactly what is going on, but this [...]
Joel Spolsky and the guys at alwaysBeta take issue with the new web 2.0 calendars…
Bruce Eckel is organizing a very cool looking conference called
Programming the New Web. Go check out the possible topics, but since its an OpenSpaces conference I’m sure the conversation will ber all over the map. Its in Colorado, so all the skiiers should be happy. I’d be happy sitting in a lodge [...]
Update: Welcome, Javalobby readers! You might be interested in the followup to this post. Thanks for the great feedback and suggestions.
Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David ThomasThis is absolutely required reading for any software developer, regardless of language. If you are lost when people are talking about “keeping it DRY” or [...]
A good list of five ways to improve your blog in under an hour, by Brian Shih. The five things are: use feedburner, ping aggregators, fix your typography, use spell check (does spellbound work on FF 1.5.1?) and just write something!
I would add: write an about page with a brief bio [...]
An anonymous javaBlogger posted about crummy error messages in many common frameworks today. His complaint was with messages like this:
Wrong string format
Cannot open file
Unable to contact server
And proprosed changing them to include the offending input:
Wrong string format in state code: “WI_1234″
Cannot open file: my.settings
Unable to contact server: your.mom.com
I would say go even further. [...]
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