Jay Fields' Thoughts

At QCon 2008 Steve Vinoski told me he uses at least 4 languages pretty much every day. At the time I thought 4 seemed like a lot of languag...

Refactoring: Ruby Edition is available (and In Stock) on amazon.com . Sorry it took so long, I hope it is worth the wait.

def Initial Development Time : In software development projects, initial development time (IDT) is the length of time it takes from the proj...

I have a personal hatred for weekend conferences*. To me, a weekend conference ensures that I'll be "working" for 12 straight ...

Someone once asked me if I thought Clojure was more expressive than even Ruby. I didn't have enough information to form an opinion then,...