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Impressions of Ruby on Rails from an ex J2EE developer (me)

A friend who is working primarily in the J2EE technology world (as I was, until early 2006) asked me for a how’s-it-going with respect to Ruby and Rails.
The short version:
- Ruby is fun to program in, as you’ve probably heard
- Rails is over-hyped, but it’s still quite good (definitely not perfect)
- I like the productivity [...]

Bruce Tate on learning J2EE

I’ve been listening to the Ruby on Rails Podcast over the last month or so, starting with the first episode from way back in July 2005 and now I’m up to the March 10, 2006 episode with Bruce Tate. There’s a great section in this podcast where Bruce describes the immense amount of information that [...]

Ruby First Impressions: Backup Scripting

I started programming in Ruby this week, and so far I like it a lot. From my initial use of Ruby as a backup automation scripting language, here are my thoughts.
You might be wondering, why am I working on backup scripting now? Don’t I have some big project I’m supposed to be working on 24/7? [...]