Dispelling Some Confusion Over SproutCore

June 17, 2008 – 12:21 am

While SproutCore uses Ruby to generate static HTML and JavaScript files, you are not tied to Ruby or Rails in production.
SproutCore runs in the browser, your production system can use whatever backend you want, as long as it sends JSON to the browser.
When I was using an early version of SproutCore to build .Mac Web [...]

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Ruby and Cafe Scifi+tique

August 31, 2007 – 3:00 am

You wouldn’t be surprised to meet Ruby enthusiasts at a Japanese science fiction convention.

Shimura’s got embedded Ruby running in Illustrator. Press a button, and that evals to ‘7′.
The back story: Shimura’s part of Cafe Scifi+tique, a performance event put together by Japanese science fiction fans to invert and parody the creepy ‘maid cafe’ scene.
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A Spectrum of Complexity in Class Design

December 7, 2005 – 12:05 am

Todd Ditchendorf pointed out a disagreement between Martin Fowler and Elliott Rusty Harold on class design. Fowler appreciates all 78 methods in Ruby’s array class.

Much of an object’s strength lies in its behavior, not its data. If you only try to provide the minimum, you end up with multiple clients duplicating code for common [...]

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Language Wars

September 23, 2004 – 12:00 am

I’m a little bothered by all the sniping between the various scripting language camps: Lisp bashes Python, Perl bashes PHP, everyone bashes Java.
But anyone can walk up, hand $10 to a hosting company, and start serving PHP + MySQL applications. If you want to run Perl, Python, Ruby or anything else, you need to use [...]

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