In a conversation with a coworker, we distilled several programming languages’ design philosophies down to a single sentence. Here’s what we came up with: Java: Protect the Developer From Themselves Ruby: Be the Developer’s Language Python: There is One True Way PHP: eh Do you agree? Disagree? What are the one sentence philosophies behind other [...]

Career 2.0 is a book that was published earlier this year by Jared Richardson with Matthew Bass.  They also have an associated blog for the book.  The reason I’m mentioning Career 2.0 is because it’s a book I believe most software developers need to read. Why?  The focus of the book is on writing and [...]

At the May raleigh.rb meetup, Kevin Smith gave a talk on alternative databases, in which he covered CouchDB and Redis. The talk convinced me that Redis would be the perfect database to underpin Get Encouraged.  Redis is a key-value pair database that is blazing fast: perfect for a small Twitter app that really only needs [...]