I finally got to reading through many folks blogs this evening. Here are several interesting posts that I eventually drilled through to:

Is Static Typing a Form of Bad Coupling? – More static/ dynamic language stuff

Finlabs – REAL COOL Algorithmic Trading
The 48 Laws of Power

Development Abstraction – go Joel – this is a great article. As Jeremy put it – I had almost given up on Joel – but this IS a great article – I particularly like this:

Management, in a software company, is primarily responsible for creating abstractions for programmers. We build the yacht, we service the yacht, we are the yacht, but we don’t steer the yacht. Everything we do comes down to providing a non-leaky abstraction for the programmers so that they can create great code and that code can get into the hands of customers who benefit from it.

That is just great. I call this idea “Building Boxes”. We try to – in essence, build boxes for the development teams. We build non-leaky abstractions – and they fill up the boxes. I talk about this all the time – well said Joel!

Go Obie – A web-based IDE for Ruby on Rails

Oh yes – SharpRobo – I am a FIT fan – so this ROCKS -

SharpRobo is a Functional Testing and Recording tool for WinForm applications written in .NET supported language. It supports all the standard WinForm controls. SharpRobo records the tests in FIT format which can be played back using Fit (File or Directory Runner).

More cool stuff via Obie – ActiveMessaging – for Ruby.

Lots of interesting stuff in the world as always

-Chris

A great article (*warning* PDF) chatting about the match that could/would exist between Ruby and the Semantic web technologies.

I agree that the match between the way of ontoloties and and the way of languages like Java and C# may be off.

I will be curious to see if any supporting frameworks come about in this space.

-Chris

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Rich Internet Application post

Someone else talking about post-browser apps. He is more focused on talking about ’social networks’, ‘FOAF’, ‘Tagging’ and (_so_called_) Web 2.0-ish stuff. My point in refereing this is – the post-browser era is coming….

-CD