Yes, language propaganda again. Ain’t it fun ?
Here comes a nice quote from the latest Steve Yegge post (read it entirely if you have the time, it’s both fun and educational - at least for me). So, there:
I made the famously, horribly, career-shatteringly bad mistake of trying to use Ruby at Google, for this project. [...]
According to O’Reilly Radar, sales of Java books have declined in the last 4 years by almost 50%. C# is selling more books from year to year and will probably level up with Java in 2008. Javascript is on the rise (due to AJAX, for sure) and PHP is on a surprising decrease path (although [...]
Moving my blog to the Wordpress platform, I wanted to install a template somewhat nicer than the default. This is how I discovered a potentially very harmful stunt which some blackhats are pulling in free Wordpress templates. What they do is build sort of “template farms” where they keep a directory of hundreds or maybe [...]
A newcomer in the world of “code snippets” sites in programmingishard.com. Although the site is a few months old, only recently it started to gain some steam. Unlike its competition Krugle and Koders, this is not a code search engine but a snippet repository entirely tag-based, user-built. The author has a blog at tentimesbetter.com.
As for [...]
Memcached is a clusterable cache server from Danga. Or, as they call, it a distributed memory object caching system. Well, whatever. Just note that memcached clients exist for lots of languages (Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl) - mainstream languages in the web world. A lighter version of server was rewritten in Java by Mr. Jehiah [...]
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