13.Jul.2008 Ruby and Rails courses
This will turn out to be a busy month for me as I test my metal in programming/web dev using Ruby and Rails in 2 seperate online courses. The first is being run by Salish Talim and is focused on the Ruby programming (www.rubylearning.com). Classroom material and assignments are passed out online in a forum [...]
02.Jul.2008 Concurrency and Performance
I attended my first JAVAWUG meeting on June 9th for a talk on concurrency and performance. I am very new to the development scene but it appeared to me that Kirk Pepperdine was in fact arguing that the way forward is to use progamming languages that are more medium level in behaviour rather than higher [...]