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Closed 11 years ago.
Are there any websites/blogs (perhaps by F# team members?) where thoughts about the future of F# are regularly discussed/revealed?
I know of some team members' blogs, but none that I've found contain this type of content.
http://www.microsoftpdc.com/
which is broadcast online next week, has as session entitled
The Future of F#: Data and Services at your Finger Tips
Don Syme
listed.
(We are always thinking about new ideas, but now that we are part of a shipping product (VS2010) with a typical release cadence (every couple years or so), it is likely that we will be a little less transparent in the months just after shipping a major release, as we start to "bake" some new ideas while encouraging people to use the shipped product... as time passes and it becomes time to ship some CTPs/Betas and whatnot, I expect you'll hear more about the future. Don's talk (and PDC in general) is somewhat forward-looking, I think.)
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Closed 9 years ago.
Can anyone suggest me a good RoR open source project that covers a lot of Rails fundamentals but yet is simple, and most importantly has lot of features or atleast bug fixes that are yet to be implemented? I checked out a few like Spree, Substruct, etc. but could not zero in upon one, that is simple and has features to develop. I am not sure if any of them even had list of bugs to be fixed., though features will be better.
Check Diaspora, this is the Diaspora Github page.
Here is the List of open Issues
Here is the Diaspora Installation Guide
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Closed 9 years ago.
I want to know the answer to this question from a technical point of view,
Is COBOL still worth leaning?
What I mean is this: there are some languages you can learn to become a better programmer, for example leaning the assembler can help to understand how a computer work, or learning a functional language when you know an OOP language can teach you to look at programming from another point of view, another way of thinking. Does COBOL have such an advantage?
Learning COBOL is just about the money...
COBOL is actively used in big financial or policy cooperations which have their system from the 80ths and wont want to change it.
In order to keep their system running and updated they need cobol programmers. But today a lot of these programmers are retiring and a lot are bought back to their jobs while doubling their salary.
COBOL isn't pretty or much fun but you can earn some money with it.
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Closed 10 years ago.
Like in Title I wonder what payment system do you recommend to use?
Maybe some of existing systems are better than other (easier for implement for example)?
So far I've try only paypal sdk for c#. But what is your recommendation for that?
This is just a personal preference, so take it for what it's worth. I've had great luck with Chargify. The C# library works well, it supports subscriptions and reoccurring billing, coupon codes, discounts, and metered billing.
Cheddergetter is an alternative to Chargify that also has .NET libraries.
I've found both significantly easier than trying to get regular Authorize.net working, and prefer it over only accepting PayPal.
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Closed 11 years ago.
I'm looking to add scripting into my Java app and JavaScript would be a great language choice. My concern though is the Rhino project and its future.
While Groovy/Jruby etc have seen constant updates, and engines like V8 and SpiderMonkey make continuous and significant performance boosts; Rhino languishes with its last release in March '09.
I've seen some work on hacking Rhino:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/pres/201009-ThunderingRhinos/pres.html
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/rohit_mullangi/37001
But nothing solid about actually merging this code into the project and getting an active committer community around it.
Does anyone have any insight into the Rhino road map?
Is there any plan for example to bring invokedynamic to the Rhino world?
Or is Rhino's destiny to simply become less and less relevant as time goes on?
All insight appreciated!
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Closed 12 years ago.
I am interested in learning Ruby/RoR, but it seems to have lost the popularity it had a few short years ago, and from what I've read, few webhosts support it. Is it on its way out?
Still seems to be growing in the U.S., it's just not as hyped as it was. See job stats from indeed
I wouldn't say it's on its way out, it just lost some of the hype--which isn't a bad thing.
I don't think there has ever been a ridiculous amount of hosting support; but there are a few, there's a list of hosts that provide rails support at http://www.rubyonrailswebhost.com/
No.
I find more and more nice little startups that are using it (my favorite recent finds: toggl.com and zencoder.com). There are also many good web hosts, but in my experience the best of them is heroku.com.
If you're interested in learning it, find a local user group. There's always people there willing to share their interest.
I worked for some start-ups and all of them used Ruby on Rails.