Cool Stuff: What's New, What's Cool

In both Ruby and DITA, domain specific languages make elegance possible. More importantly, each is producing an ecosystem of domain specific languages (aka "power tools") that is making it possible to do ever more as time goes on.[Read More]

I recently had occasion to write a JRuby script that used Java APIs in the XDocs CMS. I found most of the information I needed scattered around the web (the URLs are listed in the Resources section at the end). I decided to collect the relevant stuff in one place, leaving out the stuff that seemed extraneous, and adding the additional little bits that turned out to be necessary. This post contains the results. (But things may well change, so let me know if there are errors or it needs to be brought up to date!)[Read More]

I was recently asked, "As a developer, what kind of stuff do you need to know--what kind of information do you need to learn the language and be productive in it?" Here are the thoughts that come to mind in response to that question.
 

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