I spend a significant amount of my time just trying to keep up in this wacky software development world. I read a couple of books a month, tons of articles on the web, and more blogs than I should probably admit to. All of these being related to producing software in some fashion. I know, I’m crazy. Anywho, I thought I’d share the podcasts I like to listen to on my 4 hour commute back and forth to work each day.
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Posts tagged ‘ruby’
Martin Fowler on his bliki (part blog, part wiki) has a new entry about the ongoing debate about using Groovy or JRuby on the Java VM. I really don’t have a problem with anything he wrote there. I agree that both languages are interesting and worth developers getting to know and that Ruby probably has the edge on where things are going in the future. But one of the largest driving factors as to why a development team might choose either Groovy or JRuby wasn’t covered at all. So with apologies to both Martin Fowler and Ronald Reagan (not that I think he’s particularly upset with my hijacking of one of his more famous lines) I’d like to make my small addition.
ThoughtWorks has put out its first podcast covering Domain Specific Languages. The presentation and audio quality is bit rough but the content is interesting and well worth the listen.