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ataylor284

puredanger Java 8 Lambda Libraries iteration 1 complete… mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/lamb… 5:20 AM May 16th via Twitter for Mac Retweeted by ataylor284 and 30 others
avdi The fact that everyone is super excited about a massive kludge to get Ruby onto a developer-hostile OS is telling. Stockholm Syndrome? 8:54 AM May 11th via web Retweeted by ataylor284 and 11 others
t_crayford Nearly all programming techniques work for small apps. None of them work for large apps. 7:21 AM May 10th via Twitter for Mac Retweeted by ataylor284 and 60 others
"The Single Responsibility Principle is one of the simplest of the principles, and one of the hardest to get right" -- so very true #solid 12:38 PM May 9th via twmode
codeinthehole Level 1: write tests. Level 2: write readable tests Level 3: write readable, fast tests 4:50 AM May 9th via Twitter for Mac Retweeted by ataylor284 and 4 others
headius Perhaps Google should try to paint Android as a parody of Java...its imitation of Java's APIs would then be considered fair use. 4:13 AM May 5th via Nambu Retweeted by ataylor284 and 38 others
kiy0taka @tim_yates one-line gist.github.com/2478499 3:01 AM Apr 24th via web in reply to tim_yates Retweeted by ataylor284
tim_yates A two-line tree in #groovy ;-) gist.github.com/2478326 2:34 AM Apr 24th via web Retweeted by ataylor284 and 16 others
Yay, my proposed addition of takeWhile & dropWhile to #groovy collections has been accepted. 7:41 AM Apr 24th via twmode
nedbat Some people, when confronted with a problem, think, "I know, I'll use threads," and then two they hav erpoblesms. 8:47 AM Apr 23rd via web Retweeted by ataylor284 and 1634 others
srbaker The most important thing Rails has taught us is "convention over configuration." It's amazing how quickly even Rails people forget this. 8:49 PM Apr 21st via Twitter for iPhone Retweeted by ataylor284 and 2 others
tim_yates Rough Lazy List Comprehensions in #Groovy gist.github.com/2428928 8:51 AM Apr 20th via web Retweeted by ataylor284 and 1 other
@eyuzwa @JustPaulU emacs 4 lyfe :-) 7:11 PM Apr 13th via Twitter for Android in reply to eyuzwa
So far, a day of stirring up shit, breaking schedules, and possibly averting disaster. Weeee. 8:57 AM Apr 13th via twmode
garybernhardt Ruby programmers: quit this hero worship shit. 1:18 PM Apr 12th via web Retweeted by ataylor284 and 46 others
@tim_yates yeah definitely. Iterators could use a lot of groovification. 8:26 AM Apr 10th via twmode in reply to tim_yates
cjoh I wish @Github did what @Readability did and allowed you to pay extra and have some of the extra money you pay them go projects you fork. 9:59 PM Apr 7th via TweetDeck Retweeted by ataylor284 and 10 others
Matz on emacs and its influence on ruby: tinyurl.com/6q3truh 8:21 PM Mar 31st via twmode
Must read on data binding for anybody working with #grails: blog.springsource.org/2012/03/28/sec… 8:22 AM Mar 29th via twmode
hmemcpy The sky above the port was the color of 0x0000007B bit.ly/GWJavj /cc @GreatDismal 4:13 PM Mar 24th via Silver Bird Retweeted by ataylor284 and 75 others