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There's a very good blog post by Robert Harper, a CMU CS professor, called " Dynamic languages are static languages ." It'...

When you first start to learn physics you typically learn Newtonian Mechanics. Objects have inertia. Force is mass times acceleration. For e...

We use continuous integration (CI) testing where I work, using Hudson as our CI server. I saw this recent article on the social impacts of...

Once upon a time Rails was single threaded and could only process one request at a time. This meant for each concurrent request you wanted t...

One stand-out quality of the Ruby community is a fascination with obtaining and manipulating Ruby parse trees.  Such a fascination exists in...

Holy abstract concept, Batman! Computers are complicated things, especially modern networked ones filled with multiple CPU cores, and anyon...

UPDATE (3/2012): Hi there. This post still seems to get a lot of traffic, but I'd like for you to know I've changed my opinion. At ...