How Do You Apply Polyglotism?

For the past two years or so, there has been an increasing meme across the developer blogosphere encouraging the application of the polyglot methodology.  For those of you who have been living under a rock, the idea behind polyglot programming is that each section of a given project should use whatever language happens to be most applicable to the problem in question.  This makes for a great topic for arm-chair bloggers, leading to endless pontification and flame-wars on forum after forum, but

How Do You Ruby?

Insider Scoop From the Tutorial Divas

During your daily use of the NetBeans Ruby support, you are constantly figuring out how to best use the language and the IDE to help you get your job done. Hopefully, the tutorials and articles help you towards your goals, but one size does not fit all. You all have diverse perspectives of the product as you implement your different use cases and scenarios. In addition, you bring with you different sets of habits, mental models, processes, and standards.

As you work with the product, you gain valuable nuggets of information that would be of benefit to others who run into the same situations. The NetBeans Ruby community wiki provides the means to share that knowledge.

You might think that you have to be a subject matter expert before you can contribute, but that is far from true. Often, people who are new to using the NetBeans Ruby support are the perfect teachers for other beginners. You can understand and emphasize with them, and you are probably encountering the same bumps, hurdles, and misunderstandings. Or maybe you are just one step ahead and can help others from making the same mistakes. Also, the act of writing might make your own understanding all that more concrete.

There are many ways in which you can be involved in the NetBeans Ruby community.

• Users Alias. The users@ruby.netbeans.org email alias is a quick and easy way ask questions and help out others. An added advantage is that the developers are listening and many improvements have been made to the product because people took the time to write their issues and wishes. Often times, during the act of describing your problem concisely, you get the big Aha! that makes the answer obvious. In that case, since you have already written up the problem, you might as well share your problem and solution with the community.
  
  
• FAQs. The FAQ is composed of easy to create and edit wiki pages. The users alias is a good place to look up solutions, but even better is when someone takes the time to summarize a long thread from the users alias into one page of essential information. Another good use for FAQs is to share gotchas and tips.
  
  
• Blogs, Tutorials, and Articles. If you blog about NetBeans Ruby support, notify the users alias so we can link to you. If you want to write a tutorial or article, get in touch with the NetBeans Community Docs Contribution Coordinator Amit Kumar Saha (See Community Docs for instructions). Also let us know, so we can link to your doc from the Ruby Documentation wiki page. We will also be glad to help you with reviews and such.
  
  
• Submit Code. The Ruby Participation wiki page tells how to join the development effort. The Ruby Code Ideas wiki page lists possible projects to work on -- both large and small. Two other ways to contribute are to submit Ruby hints and quick fixes (see Writing New Ruby Hints) and provide suggestions for Ruby code templates.

So, how do you Ruby? Got a nugget to share? We would love to hear from you.

How do you reverse mod?

Hi, I am wanting to reverse mod 128 or 255 on ASCII values, does anyone know how to do this? Thanks

How many of these do you belong to?

Software Development

List of social networking sites. I'm not doing too bad: I only belong to 4, but 2 I never use (I don't even remember my ids/passwords). The most despised, FB :). I'm on it only for the sheeple effect. On a side note, I predict "sheeple" will make it into the official dictionary next year (2008).

How do you feel at JavaOne?

edschepis.net (30 reads)

With this post I'd like to give you the feeling of being at JavaOne.
What happens during the day and the night inside and outside the Moscone center?

Let's start from the Pavillion...

Breathing strange mixtures containing aroms like lemmon, strawberry... AMD offers a tour at their booth.

Playing with the XBox, watching movies, playing games like foosball (table football) in the spare time... but using star wars soldiers.

You can see Neil Young and Christy Wyatt Vice President, Software Platforms and Ecosystem at Motorola (or was she Sharon Stone?). Both Java-centric.

  

But getting t-shirts is why developers are here.

Then I've started to use my phone for recording some video...

Promotional ones:

Did you know Sun has a Chief Gaming Officer? With blond hair?

Relaxing ones:

and at the end of the day the concert of Smash Mouth at Yerba Buena Gardens with free beer and hot dogs... my stomach is starting an official protest.

How Much Do You Need?

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How Do You Rate Yourself?

Just yesterday I received the book "Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware" by Andy Hunt. I browsed through the TOC, read the introduction and started the second chapter "Journey from Novice to Expert". Even though it was quite late in the night, I just couldn't put the book down until I finished this chapter.