No it’s not a tip for the 5.50 at Punchestown it’s the latest project from _why (a legend in the world of Ruby, if a language as young as Ruby can have legends). HacketyHack is a framework to teach kids how to program, built using Ruby and the gekco browser engine, it’s free and it’s an ideal next step when your kids get a bit bored with MIT’s Scratch. It’s not as much “fun” as Scratch but it will guide kids into the “real world” of programming and as the code is pure Ruby, the sky’s the limit. If fact if any “real programmers” out there have been meaning to learn some Ruby to see what all the fuss is about, HackeyHack is an excellent way to start.
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- ..and an OLTP system built around a "document design" would have the benefit of "no-ETL" when it came to applying BI views. 2 hours ago
- ...and although I'm a SQL man to the core, I also like having the option of procedural logic as afforded by Map/Reduce. 2 hours ago
- ... and there's lots of small, some might say "toy", yet enterprise-critical tasks where "simple" is good. 2 hours ago
- As @spyced says http://bit.ly/4eNrpv CouchDB is perhaps a bit too simple for huge tasks and SQL still rocks, but combined with SQLite .... 2 hours ago
- CouchDb - not drinking the kool-aid http://bit.ly/4eNrpv agreed, SQL/relational still best for many situations, document-oriented also nice 2 hours ago
- Scratch 1.4: Beginner's Guide http://bit.ly/E4yVE 3 hours ago
- Public Sector Pay http://bit.ly/1jSQkj 'one methodology-fits-all' are suspect especially when you know that a particular agenda is at stake" 4 hours ago
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