Archive for the 'Ruby' Category

I was pretty keen on attending this years OSCON in Portland but it unfortunately didn’t fit into the conference budget.
It’s never really a replacement for attending but a good majority of the presentations this year are now available (as PDFs) here.
I haven’t looked at many yet but there appear to be some fairly interesting talks [...]

Well, I haven’t quite kicked my desire to play more with ruby so I’m planning a little side project using the Odeum bindings.
It’s too late to start tonight but I’ll try to crank something out tomorrow after work.
Ruby/Odeum is a binding to the fantastic QDBM Odeum inverted index library. Odeum is used in the [...]

I played around with Ruby on Rails tonight for a couple of hours. I guess I’ve joined the masses now.
It’s pretty cool. Enuf said. Cool enough to push XUL onto the back burner for the next short whle.
A pretty slick little framework. Simplier than but similar to what I’m used to [...]




  • Pet Peeve: Don’t email my password to me in plain text You know the drill. Signup for some random service on the internet Receive a confirmation email with your account information or Forget a password for some random service ...

  • Eclipise Memory Analyzer (MAT) I must say the Eclipse Memory Analyzer looks pretty slick. There is some pretty good material over on the developers blog. Lastly, there was a talk on it ...

  • Open-source Web-based Code Review Tool: Rietveld Guido van Rossum, of Python fame, has recently released a Django-based application that enables web-based code reviews... Rietveld. It supports any language and currently can hook into Subversion repositories. You ...

  • An implementation of the JVM in Javascript? Caught this over on JavaPosse Google Groups. Essentially, some bright fellows over in Japan have developed a bytecode->javascript compiler. There's a demo floating around that took a Tetris ...

  • Facebook Chat? So it looks like the Facebook Chat service has finally started rolling out to my network (Facebook Chat has been mentioned previously). Not quite sure how ...