Category Archives: Programming languages

Java/Hibernate vs Ruby/Rails?

Posted on January 29, 2007 by Sigurd

Java seems to reign in most enterprise IT departments. Outside thereof, a lot of interest is going into Ruby and the Rails framework. I found Patrick Peak’s review useful in understanding the relative advantages of each.

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Code and release management

Posted on January 23, 2007 by Sigurd

I was an early adopter of Subversion and Edgewall’s Trac. Installation of Trac on my defacto Linux distro, CentOS, has not been very straightforward due to it being a RHEL clone. This guide has documented the process in a clear … Continue reading →

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High-level programming languages (scripting languages)

Posted on February 25, 2006 by Sigurd

Perl. Forget it, too hard to read once you’ve forgotten why you wrote it like that. Ruby. All the love these days. Someone I trust swears by it. Hmmm… Python. Ah, that’s my cup of tea!

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