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Lightweight Frameworks, Again

A couple weeks ago, I wrote a post noting that I liked the lightweight nature of the Ruby web framework Merb. Today comes the news that Merb and Rails will be merging in Rails 3. People who see Merb as the "anti-Rails" seem to find this surprising. But people who see Merb as "Rails done [...]

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Lightweight Frameworks

Big frameworks with strong coupling are prisons. Once you go into them, you’re stuck, and it can be incredibly difficult to get out.

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ASP.NET MVC Membership

One of my disappointments with Ruby on Rails is that it provides no support whatsoever for site logins/membership, which I consider to be a fundamental part of many database-driven websites. Of course, the Rails community has responded — and responded, and responded, and responded — to this need. The Rails wiki notes that there [...]

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Garbage Collection and Functional Programming

This post is going to be short and sweet, because the point is very simple: If you use a functional programming language (and, if you want to learn to think outside of the Delphi box, you should), then you will be using garbage collection.

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