My favourite trade rag, Dr Dobbs’ Journal, has released the list of it’s 18th Jolt Awards finalists (the IT industry’s “Oscars”). In the collaboration tools segment, the wonderful Mingle project collaboration product by ThoughtWorks Studios. I was lucky enough to see Mingle develop from its earliest genesis, and got to play with some code on [...]
Browsing Posts published in January, 2008
Language ninja, Ola Bini made a remark that Ruby was strongly-typed. Without confusing “strong” with “static”, this still made me pause. I knew it was type-safe. I knew it was dynamically-typed. I knew it used Duck typing. I didn’t think about it in terms of strong types. I suppose arithmetic exceptions and array-bounds checking make [...]
