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• Knuth Interview Posted
• 22 days ago
• My interview with Donald Knuth is now posted. It's a long piece, that has some unusually interesting points, including:
  
  - why Knuth doesn't believe in designing code for reuse
  - he's most unconvinced of multithreading and multicore on the desktop
  - discussion of the tools he uses to program and write (including Ubuntu)
  - etc.
  
  A very fun read (and a fun intervie ...

• Perfecting OO's Small Classes and Short Methods
• 24 days ago
• In The ThoughtWorks Anthology a new book from the Pragmatic Programmers, there is a fascinating essay called “Object Calisthenics” by Jeff Bay. It’s a detailed exercise for perfecting the writing of the small routines that demonstrate characterize good OO implementations. If you have developers who need to improve their ability to write OO routines, I suggest you have a look-see at this essay. I w ...

• Easy Does It With easyb
• 40 days ago
• I just got back from the CITcon conference, which is the thrice-yearly confab of agile developers who use continuous integration (the "CIT" in the conference name). This was my second time at CITcon. It's an open-space conference that is--surprise!--free, and chock-a-block full of good information. The principal reason it's so informative is that anyone committed enough to CI to go to a conference ...

• Great Reference For Ruby
• 47 days ago
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  Ruby aficionados have been working for the last few years under a serious handicapt: there was not good, up-to-date reference on their favorite language. Sure, the Pickaxe book provided some guidance, but it's a hybrid work--part tutorial, part reference. And the reference section was a summary, rather than an in-depth exposition.
  
  Ever-dependable O'Reilly just released Ruby Progr ...

• Restarting the Platypus And the Lessons Learned
• 88 days ago
• As many of you know, I have spent much of my free time during the last 24 months working on an open-source project called Platypus. The project's goal is to implement a command language like TeX, which enables users to embed formatting commands directly into text and generate documents of typeset quality in PDF, Microsoft Word, and HTML. The aims of Platypus are to be much easier to use than Tex a ...