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Patrick Farley

ThoughtWorks

Patrick Farley is a developer and occasional tech lead with ThoughtWorks. He blogs on Ruby and Rails at www.klankboomklang.com

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13:30 Tuesday, 2-09-2008
Meta-programming Ruby for Fun & Profit
Tutorial
 Location: Saal Maritim C
Neal Ford (ThoughtWorks), Patrick Farley (ThoughtWorks)
Ruby is the revenge of the Smalltalkers. Not since Smalltalk has a language had such powerful meta-programming facilities. While this may seem like a minor feature, it turns out that surgical meta-programming allows solutions to problems that are clearer, more concise, more maintainable, and take orders of magnitudes fewer lines of code. Read more.
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