Ruby 2.0 is coming very soon. The specification is fixed, and the first stable release will be in production in several months. Now is the time to get prepared for 2.0. What new features are available in 2.0? How can our code, and lives be improved by these new features? …
Ceylon is a new programming language designed to execute on the JVM. We’re fans of Java and its ecosystem. However, we think that the language and class libraries, designed more than 15 years ago, are no longer the best foundation for a range of today’s business computing problems.
This technical discusses services-based architectures and how it has evolved in the speaker’s experience to being a myriad of tiny (100 lines of code typically), loosely coupled applications. SOA, service-oriented architectures, burst on the scene in the new millennium as the latest technology to support application growth. In concert with …
Moving to Agile: what are the changes and how to deal with them. There are official rules of Agile methodologies which everybody knows. But a lot of companies starts using Agile methodologies and got disappointed very quickly. Why this happens? Why you often hear that Agile doesn’t work for us? …
Ruby 2.0 to be released in next February. Ruby 2.0 doesn’t have drastic changes in behavior except adding some new features. However, an internal of Ruby 2.0 Virtual Machine (VM) is changing to improve performance! For example, we changed VM data structures and method invocation processes to achieve fast execution. …
Do you want to be successful in the world of startups and Information Technologies? This talk presents the 10 best ways to scam, rip off, fool, and influence today’s American programmer. While focusing on the American variety of coder, these tactics are sure to work on people from all over …
