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        <title>Joe the amazing coding monkey</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Should give both Bruce and Joe a banana]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2005 16:31:43 -0500</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Oct 30, 2005</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Javed Mandary</jf:author>
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        <title>In all seriousness...</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[<blockquote>Of course languages don't die; they just split marketshare.  C++ is alive and well ten years after the appearance of Java.</blockquote><br>A look at the TIOBE index is illustrative:<br><a href="http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm"...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2005 02:29:14 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Oct 27, 2005</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Steve Zara</jf:author>
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        <title>In all seriousness...</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Guy Steele gave a great talk at OOPSLA a few years back on language design in which he talked about the lifecycle of a language.  <br><br>Let me paraphrase the essentials (as I remember them): <br><br>People flocked to a new language early on because it...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:03:38 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Oct 25, 2005</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Shaun Smith</jf:author>
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        <title>Right associations?</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[It seems odd that Bruce chose a monkey to represent Java and a dog to represent Ruby. After all, aren't monkeys agile and dogs slow? (Or is &quot;dog slow&quot; a regional expression?)]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2005 16:49:42 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Oct 25, 2005</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Doug Hall</jf:author>
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        <title>Joe, the Amazing Coding Monkey</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[<blockquote>+1There seems to be more and more of such posts on &quot;News&quot; sections.It's first some transaction rollback, samy hero and now this monkey; what's happening TSS? They've their audiences given the right section.</blockquote><br>Samy is...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2005 15:14:55 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Oct 23, 2005</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Kirk Pepperdine</jf:author>
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        <title>Lighten Up!</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=37230</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[+1. If one doesn't like it, they can ignore it.  Or as for a refund.  :)]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2005 10:35:09 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Oct 22, 2005</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Mark N</jf:author>
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        <title>TSS quality is slipping</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=37230</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[What the hell is going on with quality control at TSS? Since Floyd Marinescu left we've had:<br><br>- Katrina relief appeals (maybe my opinion is controversial but I felt it didn't belong here)<br>- Some guy posting his homework questions<br>- &quot;samy...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2005 12:22:30 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Oct 21, 2005</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Neil Bartlett</jf:author>
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        <title>Lighten Up!</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[People are worrying about nothing. We've all seen all these doom messages before when .net appeared. If mammoth Microsoft couldn't replace Java with all their weight and $$$, I really doubt some 12 y-o niche-oriented language/framework will. And in case...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2005 12:20:09 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Oct 21, 2005</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Henrique Steckelberg</jf:author>
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        <title>Lighten Up!</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[I think some of us are missing the point. The overall purpose of this &quot;article&quot; *ahem* is to laugh! Who cares if Bruce is jabbing Java a little. I'm certainly no fan of Ruby, but I'm also not wound up so much as to not be able to appreciate a...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:55:31 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Oct 21, 2005</jf:date>
        <jf:author>William Smith</jf:author>
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        <title>Joe, the Amazing Coding Monkey</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[<blockquote>+1There seems to be more and more of such posts on &quot;News&quot; sections.It's first some transaction rollback, samy hero and now this monkey; what's happening TSS? They've their audiences given the right section.</blockquote><br>Gotta...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:31:22 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Oct 21, 2005</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Putio Mudurkin</jf:author>
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        <title>funny blog, and...</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[a good weekend meal!<br><br>horse has been fat. what is the next generation of java? i would know that is the monkey joe. :)<br><br>but really, now the chief editor is not as good as that one before.]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:27:56 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Oct 21, 2005</jf:date>
        <jf:author>weiyong huang</jf:author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Had a good laugh<br><blockquote>Friday, August 21<br>A puppy! What an adorable little puppy! Here, Ruby, Ruby.</blockquote><br>GOTO: Wednesday, August 12]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:26:56 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Oct 21, 2005</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Konstantin Ignatyev</jf:author>
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            <description><![CDATA[+1<br><br>There seems to be more and more of such posts on &quot;News&quot; sections.<br><br>It's first some transaction rollback, samy hero and now this monkey; what's happening TSS? They've their audiences given the right section.]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:23:35 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Oct 21, 2005</jf:date>
        <jf:author>dontrango dontrango</jf:author>
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            <description><![CDATA[I realize Bruce has some books to sell, and has been talking up Geary who's inevitably coming out with another RoR book.  I read Bruce's article over at onjava.com (!) and while Ruby's syntax is more compact (easier to read is a toss up), he did...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:19:51 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Oct 21, 2005</jf:date>
        <jf:author>hookomjj</jf:author>
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        <title>Joe, the Amazing Coding Monkey</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Cool...<br>a little bit of fun in this ocean of serious posts...<br><br>and not surprisingly, some of you will find this to be non professional...cmon, buy and read PeopleWare : <a...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:11:03 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Oct 21, 2005</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Laurent BEDE</jf:author>
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