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Presentation: The Beauty of Ruby
As Edd Dumbill wrote, "the subtle elegance of the Ruby idiom is a slowly appreciated and highly satisfying flavour." It's true that some of the best things about Ruby aren't obvious to newcomers. In this talk Glenn Vanderburg demonstrates some of the subtle beauty that experienced Rubyists know and love.
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Mono Adds Support For Type Inference in C#
Marek Safar has announced that the C# 3.0 compiler for Mono now supports implicitly typed local variables and implicitly typed arrays using a technique known as type inference.
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New Concurrency Features for Java SE 7
Although the contents of Java SE 7 are still in flux, early candidates of concurrency features for inclusion are are already taking shape: a fork/join framework and a transfer queue. InfoQ spoke with Doug Lea about these features and concurrency in Java SE 7.
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VB 9 Features – What Made the Cut
With VB 9 getting closer to release, Microsoft had to make some hard decisions about what features were going to make the cut. While most of the important features made it in, there were some notable exceptions. Paul Vic has the rundown.
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Delphi to Finally Support .NET 2.0
In a roadmap posted on the CodeGear site, it has been announced that Delphi.NET will be upgraded to the .NET 2.0 framework. This is a major step for the platform that until recently was thought abandoned.
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Writing Maintainable Code
Sam Gentile, Oren Eini (aka Ayende), and Frans Bouma have an ongoing debate in the .NET community about how to write maintainable code, which several others have joined. The debate mainly focuses on the question, if Test-Driven-Development (TDD), O/R-Mappers (ORM), Model-View-Presenter/Controller (MVP/MVC), and other best-practices help to improve the maintainability of software.
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Aaron Erickson on LINQ and i4o
In an interview with InfoQ, Aaron Erickson introduces his new LINQ extension Indexes for Objects (i4o). Indexes for Objects allows for fast lookup against in-memory collections while retaining the LINQ syntax and semantics. He also discusses how expression trees interact with LINQ and how they can be leveraged in other scenarios.
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Google SoC Series: dcov - Ruby documentation coverage analyzer
Ruby gains another tool to ensure code quality: dcov analyses Ruby code and determines the documentation coverage. We caught up with dcov developer Jeremy McAnally to talk about his plans.
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Closures and Object Lifetime in C# and Visual Basic
C# 2 and the yet to be released VB 9 allow developers to reference local variables in anonymous functions. When an anonymous function 'closes over' a variable, the local variable is promoted to an instance variable and stored in an object called a closure. This allows the variable to exist long after the method call that created it has been completed, but can cause some unexpected side effects.
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VB Tips and Trips: Multiple Dispatch
With the plans for more dynamic programming in VBx, this is a good time to point out some of the dynamic features already available in Visual Basic. In this installment we talk about multiple dispatch.
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What's a Ruby DSL and what isn't?
"Domain Specific Language" (DSL) is a popular buzzword in the Ruby community. Recently, however, doubts about the use of the term arose, particularly because it tends to be used even for ordinary APIs, simply because Ruby allows to omit parentheses. We look at some of the style debates.
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Digging Deeper Into The Myths of Ruby vs. Java
Stuart Halloway of Relevance recently wrote a series of blog posts on "Ruby vs. Java Myths". The series was prompted after he switched gears from working on a green field Ruby project back to a well established Java project.
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Google SoC Series: Constraint programming with Ruby
Constraint programming is a type of logic programming which allows you to define the constraints of a problem and leave it up to the computer to determine a solution. A Google SoC sponsored project will bring constraint programming to Ruby via a binding to the Gecode library. We talked to Andreas Launila, who develops the project.
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Not-Yet-Commons-SSL Provides Powerful (and Free) SSL Capabilities
Not-Yet-Commons-SSL is an Apache licensed Java library designed to simplify the use of SSL by providing an easy-to-use API along with robust support for a variety of certificate formats and configuration options.
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ReSharper 3.0 with full VB.NET Support
Full-featured support for Visual Basic .NET, including complete cross-language functionality with C#, will be available in ReSharper 3.0, a powerful add-in to Microsoft Visual Studio from JetBrains.