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Today I am saddened to learn that one of the very first commercial products I ever helped develop, FoxPro, is being put out to pasture . I can't believe I actually found a picture of old the DOS product I tested. Anyway, I still feel that FoxPro (and...
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To help me learn Ruby, I created a mashup that takes a photo from Flickr , extracts its geotags and places the location of the photo on a Google map. Yes, I know that Flickr already has this functionality thru Yahoo maps, but I wanted to try out Google...
Found a great online book today, called Programming Ruby. Just started going thru it, but it appears to be a great resource. I'd also encourage anyone learning Ruby to take a note from Tom and install the FireFox plug-ins . Once I've finished this book...
So I spent the better part of today learning the rest of Ruby basics. Since I have limited experience with Perl and Java, this has been a tiny bit challenging. Regexp took some time to understand, for example. Adding an "If" clause to the *end* of a line...
I've decided that its time to learn a new programming language and after much thought, I've decided to learn Ruby. In just the first couple hours of playing with Ruby, I've found that it is both a powerful and yet slow language. I'm so spoiled by compiled...