One-man Lightning Talk
Category: Languages > Ruby      Posted: 10 Dec 08

Kevin Clark is back again and talking about his latest work: Rubinius, grammar parsing from ruby, kqueue, and massive build systems.

Ruby for data processing
Category: Languages > Ruby      Posted: 10 Dec 08

Brian Chapados talks about using ruby & rake to build a simple workflow to coordinate external processes.

DRP
Category: Languages > Ruby      Posted: 10 Dec 08

DRP stands for Directed Ruby Programming. In this episode, Warren Henning explains exactly what that means and why you might be interested in it.

Merb
Category: Languages > Ruby      Posted: 10 Dec 08

Chris Van Pelt gives us an introduction to Merb. Merb is a Ruby framework built by Ezra Zygmuntowicz.

ImageScience
Category: Languages > Ruby      Posted: 10 Dec 08

In this episode, Tom Werner covers some of the basics of the ruby image library ImageScience. ImageScience is a wrapper for the FreeImage graphics libr...

Ruby Idioms - Part 1
Category: Languages > Ruby      Posted: 10 Dec 08

Tom Werner gives us part 1 of his series on Ruby idoms.

Avi Bryant on MagLev and GemStone
Category: Languages > Ruby      Posted: 16 Jun 08

In this interview, Avi Bryant talks about working on GemStone's MagLev, a Ruby implementation built on the GemStone S64 VM. Avi explains the reasons fo...

Business Natural Languages Development in Ruby
Category: Languages > Ruby      Posted: 07 Jun 08

Jay Fields presents his concept of Business Natural Languages (BNL). BNLs are a type of Domain Specific Language, designed to be readable by any subjec...

Jim Weirich Discusses Rake, the Ruby Make Tool
Category: Languages > Ruby      Posted: 05 Jun 08

Jim Weirich, is the Chief Scientist for EdgeCase LLC and thecreator of rake, the popular make-like build tool written in Ruby. In this interview with I...

Ruby And Google Maps
Category: Languages > Ruby      Posted: 28 Mar 08

Andre will be covering topics such as the following:

  • ImageMagick and geographic data: creating custom Google Map overlays with RMagick
  • Google...

  • How To Design A Domain Specific Language
    Category: Languages > Ruby      Posted: 28 Mar 08

    David Pollak has been developing commercial software for 28 years. He founded Athena Design and wrote Mesa, the first real-time spreadsheet. David wrot...

    JRuby: The power of Java and Ruby
    Category: Languages > Ruby      Posted: 28 Mar 08

    Ola Bini works for ThoughtWorks Studios, and recently published the book Practical JRuby on Rails at APress. I’m very interested in Artificial Intell...