Cosine Jeremiah and his Musings

I have recently been exposed to the first pair programming in my career, and I want to quickly share some thoughts on it.
Honestly, at first I found it a little frustrating. There I was spending half my time watching someone else implement some stuff, and my brain simultaneously stuck elsewhere solving world hunger while [...]

I have spent a lot of hours in the past week working with Mephisto. Mephisto is a blogging platform with aims of eventually being a full-fledged CMS. Overall I like it, but I am uncertain if it is a platform I ought to continue working with at this point.
Here are the highlights of [...]

I just found out that Paul Graham has unleashed Arc upon the world after years and years of teasing us. This is exciting, particularly for what will happen to Ruby. All of the nifty features that make Arc awesome will be extracted into a few Ruby gems in the next 2–4 weeks, and [...]

Are you stuck in a J2EE framework that leaves you feeling like this?
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Why wait? Get out there and get started with Rails today!

In my previous post I introduced the idea of using irb as a desktop calculator. If you are new to Ruby, however, using irb can have the side effect of teaching you Ruby. Everything you type in irb is a Ruby statement. The response you get from irb is the value Ruby [...]