Languages Span!
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Loading ...I have often been caught in the cross fire of the ongoing and awfully brutal and emotional language wars. I am a C programmer by choice and a PHP/Perl Developer by trade, so I get some of the most heated and misfortunate of the angry or emotionally charged responses from people who just do not know a god damned thing about what they are talking about. Scarier is when I hear absurdities from people who actually do know something about their topic. For some reason they want to stick their toes into my pool and do not like the temperature of the water so they go into a tirade about how I should change the color of the water with some dye and install a heater, oh and the chlorine content is too low or too high and algae will form; who knows, maybe you should add this algae snake as well to keep it from getting to the bottom! I apologize for the extended analogy here but it stands. It is important that Comp Sci. and Developers alike learn at least one thing about languages before they enter the market and end up coding themselves into a corner – There is no such thing as a language level, Languages Span!
Posted on July 25th, 2008 by Bob in Application Development, Game Development, Inspiration, Web Development
Python for Programmers
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Ruby, oh yea, its on Rails
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I nearly forgot yesterday that Ruby has a train following it about. It has been growing in popularity over the last few years as it has become more and more well known as the language used behind a growing number of applications, such as campfire for instance. I have no complaints about it though, its actually a very useful language. My problem, as is often the case, falls on ignorance and the terrible practices of fearing languages.
When someone approaches me and asks me if I know Ruby on Rails I have to answer, quite politely the first time, no. I don’t know Ruby on Rails any more than I do QCodo, PHPCake or any other of the dozens of web frameworks. The attachment of “on Rails” to Ruby has really ruined, at least in my mind, the possible momentum that could be enjoyed by Ruby as has been enjoyed by other languages like, Perl or Python. The fact that these later languages names begin with the letter P should not lead anyone to believe that they are P-opular. All of the languages that I have experience with have their place in my heart and a place in my development practices. From my point of view, pinning “on Rails” onto Ruby weakens the message that many of us have already taken to learning.
Posted on December 12th, 2007 by Bob in Application Development, Web Development
Frets On Fire
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Tired of the same old Guitar Hero bullshit? Well apparently there is an open source option for PC’s. It looks kind of neat, maybe you should check it out. I am going to stick to the real thing, but you are all free to do as you feel is necessary!
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Posted on November 17th, 2007 by Bob in Misc. Video, Random
Controlling Dreams, when they are about code
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...I woke up this morning, sweaty as all hell, but I knew something that I hadn’t the night before. I solved the problem I had been facing for the last week in my code. All it took was to forget it and close my eyes.
This is a story that I have heard from many of my coder buddies over the years, and miraculously this is not something that seems to be few and far between. This pattern of immersion seems to permeate the society that I now consider to be my own.
Posted on March 20th, 2007 by Bob in Inspiration, Random