Great photos of Mexico

Came across this very nice spread of photos taken from a helicopter in Mexico.

Enjoy

The wonderful thing about tigers....er, Ruby

Over the last month or so I've been discussing various aspects of Ruby with coworkers and technical friends. In several instances I've been asked what the big deal is with Ruby, what does it bring to the table that makes it any better than Java, C#, C++ or any other language? There are many aspects of the language that I really like but earlier tonight this blog entry came across my desk and really helped outline one of my favorites.

The fact that you can alter virtually any class or object realtime proves to be an incredibly powerful feature. Of course with great power comes great responsibility and as shown with the aforementioned writeup on Rails, this power can be used to deal with real world problems in a most excellent way.

Thanks for listening.