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I read an article the other day on coding horror that discusses size is the enemy of software development. One of the opinions from the article was: If you’re starting a new project, consider using a dynamic language like Ruby, JavaScript, or Python. You may find you can write less code that means more. A [...]

I listened to a great podcast the other day on “Groovy Programming for Java Guys“. It was a really good look into the groovy language and how it relates to Java software development. I’ve sent this to management to try and help them understand better this whole “Groovy” thing. My team has been integrating groovy [...]

I have been using Groovy for a little while now and am researching the possibility of using Grails for an upcoming project. At the time, I did not no much about Grails but I had dabbled with Rails a bit and got a feel for how it works. The .NET community created a project called [...]

There has been a lot of buzz about Ruby in recent days, particularly around Ruby on Rails. I love these Ruby on Rails vs. X commercials that www.railsenvy.com has created. Rails provides a much better framework for the “web backed by a database” problem than anything I have seen in the pure Java world. Java [...]