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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
Write better, cleaner, more maintainable code. Learn how to manage your projects and focus on shipping your product. With insight that covers the gamut of software development [...]

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Motivation: SD News is a “social news site” (basically a Hacker News clone), written in Rails, that I work on as part of my efforts with a Christian publishing company I run with some friends.  As part of the administrative backend, I wanted to be able to send posts to our Twitter profile.  The site [...]

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I like Python. I like Ruby. I like C, C++, and Objective-C. I like Java. I also (actually) like PHP. I like programming – get it? Use whatever gets the job done and done well. Use whatever achieves the performance and scalability you require for a given task. [...]

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What exactly are they using it for? Front-end?

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I’ve been using Phusion Passenger for a few months now and I’m really pleased with it.  The performace vs. Mongrel is better, but what makes it so useful is the ease of deployment.  Being able to setup a vhost in Apache just like you would for a PHP application was very appealing to me.  Having [...]

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