Three Ruby related posts in a row! Yes, I'm currently enamored with this colorful little language. If you know people that know (or you yourself know) languages like Smalltalk and Lisp, you'll often hear them curse when they use other languages. Something like "Damn, I could do this so much easier ...

Check out the Ruby Quiz run by James Edward Gray II. It's a weekly 'quiz' that runs on the ruby-talk mailing list each week. I think this is a great idea for any language, but especially emerging languages full of interesting features like Ruby. This week's quiz was a meta-programming ...

Web Services are about sharing. SOAP Web Services are about interoperability. If you don't need to share information or services and if you don't need to interoperate with other systems or other programming languages, then why incur the overhead of doing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)? If you don't need to ...

As I discussed in a previous post "ASP.NET Web Application without ASPX Extension", I've been working on a custom WebDAV server for a client. The initial proof-of-concept was just to see if we could get some .NET code that would respond to all paths for a given web application. From ...