My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...

Every few years something significant happens in the land of computer programming. In my opinion the Ruby computer language is such a landmark. Over the years I have seen programmer productivity go up ...

such as Ruby on Rails debugging, Mac OS X support, and multilingual input method editor (IME) support for non-Western languages. “Until now, Ruby developers haven’t had a professional IDE for writing ...