I came across Ruby Conventions for Java Programmers a while back, but still fairly helpful. Every language has its own idioms.
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Joel Spolsky argues recently somewhat tongue in cheek that Java just isn’t a good language to differentiate potential programmer candidates. At a high level I can agree with the sentiment that you want to know that someone knows more than Java. On the idea of weeding people out I can’t say that his focus on [...] I have a defacto rule I try to follow with resource allocation. For any project beyond simple maintenance I always assign 2+ developers. The reasons are fairly obvious: At least two developers know the source code. Each developer is able to bounce ideas off the other one and help work through roadblocks. It’s hard to [...] Stumbled across this post by Dave Churchville where he argues that J2EE has killed of OOP. I find it pretty close to the truth with the web applications we build. We don’t get to build a whole lot of first class objects. I find many of my developers haven’t grokked OO all that well, because [...] Over the Xmas break I finally freed up enough time to do a shallow dive into Ruby via the Pickaxe book. So far it’s very enjoyable for a variety of reasons. This is the first completely new language I’ve tried to learn after becoming test infected. It’s nice to do really simple things and keep [...] |
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