What is the next killer app for Ruby?
Monday, July 28th, 2008You know Ruby on Rails, right? But do you know that Ruby is so much more than a web development language?
Some of the recent Ruby popularity can certainly be contributed to the Ruby on Rails framework, but what now – what is the next thing in the Ruby Community? At JAOO Aarhus 2007 we asked [...]
What is beautiful code?
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008First of all: What is beauty?
For beauty includes three conditions, “integrity” or “perfection,” since those things which are impaired are by the very fact ugly; due “proportion” or “harmony”; and lastly, “brightness” or “clarity,” whence things are called beautiful which have a bright color.
— Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica.
This definition of beauty by Thomas Aquinas was [...]