Brad Ediger is a freelance programmer, specializing in Rails, who has used the framework since its release in 2004. He and his wife Kristen (a web designer) own Madriska Media Group, a web development firm.
Ruby is a wonderful language, but its syntax has some shortcomings. Inspired by Perl, the syntax of Ruby requires many special cases and is difficult to parse by anything but a full Ruby interpreter. We seek to fix this...
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Ruby is a wonderful language, but its syntax has some shortcomings. Inspired by Perl, the syntax of Ruby requires many special cases and is difficult to parse by anything but a full Ruby interpreter. We seek to fix this...
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Never thought it would happen, but I finally switched to the Dvorak keyboard layout. I've been wanting to switch for years, but there is never a good time for a programmer to have to re-learn how to type. It wasn't...
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Never thought it would happen, but I finally switched to the Dvorak keyboard layout. I've been wanting to switch for years, but there is never a good time for a programmer to have to re-learn how to type. It wasn't...
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Paul Graham's Arc language has been causing a commotion in the Lisp and web application communities. One of the stand-out features of Arc is its tidy syntax for simple anonymous functions. In Arc, the increment function can be expressed...
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Paul Graham's Arc language has been causing quite a commotion in the Lisp and web application communities. One of the neat features of Arc is its tidy syntax for simple anonymous functions. In Arc, the increment function can be...
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"Advanced Rails covers quite a bit of territory, going for breadth rather than depth most of the time. Each chapter covers a classic, pivotal development concern..."
--Ben Munat, Slashdot.org