I don’t want to be a hater, but I’ve been doing Java recently, quite intensively, after doing a bunch of rails. Well, the other day I was on irc, talking to someone about my experiences, and this kinda fell out, and I like it, so here it is:

ruby is like, how shall I put it..? It reminds me of being in Cornwnall or a Spanish city

Java reminds me of being in London

...in the square mile

....at rush hour

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I’ve been moving visualchat.co.uk to ruby on rails recently and one of the things they have to do is block certain ip addresses, in fact, entire ranges of ip addresses, as they get a lot of naughty mischievous chilldren (read as fucktards) creating havoc.

I tinkered about a bit and then asked on #ruby-lang where one David Black answered the call. The code he gave me is my favourite bit of ruby code ever. I think his solution is so very nice it’s unbelievable.

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I’s on #rubyonrails the other day when someone asked: how do I tidy this up?

2. def Creation.make(raw, content_type)
3. if Movie::MIME_TYPES.include?(content_type)
4. Movie.new(raw)
5. elsif Music::MIME_TYPES.include?(content_type)
6. Music.new(raw)
7. elsif Picture::MIME_TYPES.include?(content_type)
8. Picture.new(raw)
9. elsif Fiction::MIME_TYPES.include?(content_type)
10. Fiction.new(raw)
11. else
12. Creation.new(raw)
13. end
14. end

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Last year (2006) I had some ideas for a couple of websites I really wanted to make.. I had to get some funding together (to pay for food+rent while I coded) and as such, had to write a plan which I could give to money people, to make money decisions.

Part of that involved looking into the technologies in which I’d make my amazing sites. At the time I was a .net developer and was originally going to go down that route.. I was pricing up servers, work estimates, software (18k for sql server!! WTF?!) and eventually worked out I’d need about 100k to do this..

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