April 14th, 2010 by Anders Janmyr — Agile
I can’t take credit for this statement, since I am only drawing the logical conclusion from a statement said by a man far smarter than I. Donald Knuth wrote in his famous paper Structured Programming with go to Statements (PDF): We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: pre-mature optimization is [...]
Tags: ruby
January 16th, 2010 by Anders Janmyr — Tips & Tricks
I just read, or rather skimmed, the book, called Everyday Scripting with Ruby and it is awful. I had high expectations. I was expecting something like Perl for System Administration, where you right away get into hard core Perl scripting. This book is nothing like that! It is a really basic introduction to Ruby, and [...]
Tags: email, gmail, growl, perl, python, ruby, scripting
March 24th, 2009 by Fredrik Olsson — Architecture, Embedded, Java, Tips & Tricks
Many Java developers are looking at new dynamic languages, such as Groovy and JRuby, mostly because of the freedom and rapid development that a dynamic language allows. Some of my colleagues are also looking at Cocoa and feel daunted at the sight of Objective-C. Here I will use a small example that is easy and [...]
Tags: design patterns, frameworks, iphone, mobile, objective-c, programming, ruby
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