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• John Lam on IronRuby

  Time for another salvo of moving pictures! John catches us up on the IronRuby and shows some under-the-covers architecture of the DLR at the ALT.NET Open Spaces, Seattle event. I didn't get the whole thing, but there's some good stuff especially... Posted Apr 24 2008, 03:23 PM by Dave Laribee with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: ALT.NET, Featured, ironruby, Ruby, video

• A Brief Statement on BDD

  Scott Bellware posed a question on the newly formed BDD list asking people's background. The list is concerned with Behavior-Driven Development but seems to have a heavy bias toward the .NET developer. This bias seems to bend the conversation towards... Posted Mar 09 2008, 10:20 PM by Dave Laribee with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: .net, BDD, python, Rails, Ruby

• System.Web.EatDirtMonoRail?

  Ben writes (emphasis his): System.Web.MVC will reach an audience that MonoRail doesn’t: The corporate giant who already swallowed the pill and will do anything that Microsoft pushes, good or bad . And a lot of consultants work firmly in this space. That's... Posted Oct 16 2007, 12:28 AM by Dave Laribee with | with 18 comment(s) Filed under: microsoft, monorail, mvc, open source, opinion, Rails, Ruby

• KLOCs and Golf Scores

  I'm always amused when I hear "our system has one million lines of code" bandied about as a point of pride. All that says to me is that most likely you've inherited a big ball of mud because when a single system gets that big, well,... Posted Sep 19 2007, 10:46 AM by Dave Laribee with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: Metrics, NHibernate, Rails, Ruby