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Posts published in November 2010

Ruby Development on Windows

Several months ago, I set a Ruby development environment up on Windows but quickly realised that people were right saying that it doesn’t work well: I had lots of crashes, installation of some gems was tricky, and the Ruby version didn’t play well with the Rails version at that time. So I installed VirtualBox and […]

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How to be a Programmer

»To be a good programmer is difficult and noble. The hardest part of making real a collective vision of a software project is dealing with one’s coworkers and customers.« When a book about programming starts with this software development truth, it’s a good sign that it is worth reading. Robert L Read’s short book »How […]

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