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Less Magic, Please

My development style tends towards less and less metaprogramming and magic these days. Its not for lack of ability or lack of capable coworkers. I work with some pretty sharp people, and I know they can grok whatever sort of voodoo method_missing module_eval mysticism I can throw at them. But lately I […]

Ruby For Rails by David A Black - Book Review

Ruby for Rails might just top the classic PickAxe for the best all around Ruby book…

Memcached, Rails, and You

Geoffrey continues the run of helpful articles with an intro of how to implement memcached with ActiveRecord. I know my team will have to look into this soon, as we have some model objects that are essentially lookup objects, but need to be used for every request in some way. Since they change […]

Ruby and Ruby on Rails Book Roundup

Explosion of the Ruby book market - at least sixteen books coming 2006!

Do you program? You need to read Steve Yegge.

Adding Steve Yegge to the A-List of Programmer Bloggers

A Little Ruby, A Lot of Objects

Brian Marick started a book on objects in Ruby five years ago called A Little Ruby, A Lot of Objects [PDFs here]. Its written in the unique style the The Little Schemer and A Little Java, A Few Patterns. You could go as far as to call these books the Socratic method applied […]

NFJS Milwaukee - Day One

The No Fluff Just Stuff tour kicked off today. I made it down to Milwaukee in time, despite a frantic search for my keys that ended with finding them in my wife’s jacket (of course). After the registration and intro from Jay, I went over to see Stuart’s talk on Spring Dependancy Injection. […]

Eight More Essential Books for Developers

A followup to my most popular post ever

Five books every Java developer must own

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 […]

Neward’s paper on the OR mismatch and LINQ

Ted Neward recently posted an extensive paper comparing various OR solutions from over the years, including JDBC, SQLJ, and ActiveRecord. Of course, the paper finished up by showing .NET's upcoming solution with LINQ and how it "hopes to take a large step forward in minimizing the object-relational mismatch." It allows you to code [...]