Many times when you return to code that you have written you will swear and be annoyed with your lack of foresight. We have been using a library since a while back. There is a definite strength to having a simple way of exposing actions from a console application. The code for the library and runner Isop is a mess. A mess designed to avoid having to code a messy console application in order to do quick interactions with your code (.net code to be specific). The focus of the lib has always been to cater to [...]

Many times when you return to code that you have written you will swear and be annoyed with your lack of foresight. We have been using a library since a while back. There is a definite strength to having a simple way of exposing actions from a console application. The code for the library and runner Isop is a mess. A mess designed to avoid having to code a messy console application in order to do quick interactions with your code (.net code to be specific). The focus of the lib has always been to cater to [...]

The impression I’ve gotten from working with ruby is that it’s generally fun to work with. One of my coworkers who has about a year of experience told me: You become happy from working with ruby. Also, for many tasks it can provide a easier experience than some of the alternatives. Consider the tasks: Manage builds or server Simple web app Tools like rake and sinatra are simple enough to help green developers complete the task without drowning in the complexity. It’s the same reasoning behind webmat[...]

The impression I’ve gotten from working with ruby is that it’s generally fun to work with. One of my coworkers who has about a year of experience told me: - You become happy from working with ruby. Also, for many tasks it can provide a easier experience than some of the alternatives. Consider the tasks: - Manage builds or server - Simple web app Tools like rake and sinatra are simple enough to help green developers complete the task without drowning in the complexity. It’s the same reasoning behind webmatr[...]

Why is Typescript more interesting than coffeescript and similar constructs? Typescript is an extension of the javascript language. If you avoid the syntactic sugar for classes and modules in typescript, but it still can be very helpful (perhaps a sweet addition to jshint). It avoids the assembler of the web problems. I don’t agree with the reasoning about the reasoning about write large applications. It would be horrible if you write javascript and avoid writing good code and instead use the type system a[...]