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AJAX vs. REST

A small shop I’ve been writing for for fathers pharmacy was a welcome playground for modeling my domain RESTful. During my ventures, two big issues had me thinking quite hard for a while and there’s still no proper solution available. One of them was a DRY implementation of controllers for nested resources which I’ll describe later, the other one was the outdated inplace editor plugin in Rails.

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Hey Hey OCaml

Wie’s aussieht hat sich auch Steve Yegge schon damit beschäftigt:

OCaml has threads, exceptions, call-with-continuation, calling conventions to and from C, a rich standard library with collections, networking, I/O, graphics, a complete interface to the Unix programming API, and a powerful module system that blows Java’s packages away. It has interfaces and bindings for Oracle, MySQL, postgres, berkeley DBs, CORBA, COM, xml-rpc, SOAP, XML, perl-compatible regular expressions… the list goes on. You name it, it’s there.

OCaml has the potential to make me happy as a programmer, finally.

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An apple a day…

Wie heisst die Faustregel doch so schön? “Lerne jedes Jahr eine neue Programmiersprache”

Bisher schlage ich mich damit ganz gut:

2007: ein bißchen Python
2006: C#, Ruby, Javascript
2005: genug C++ um da in Zukunft einen Bogen herum zu machen, genug Haskell um ein permanentes distanziertes Interesse zu erhalten das vielleicht irgendwann durchschlägt in ernsthafte Auseinandersetzung.
2003/2004: Java
1999-2002: PHP, SQL more…