After years of automating systems with CFEngine, Luke Kanies, Puppet's primary author, had ideas
about automation that he could not express with exist...
Multicores. Distributed web services. Clouds. Pick your favorite buzz word, but pretty much any way
you slice it, it's concurrent programming: multipl...
Over the last year, there has been a huge increase of interest in using
Ruby to create and manipulate music. If you're interested but haven't
been pa...
Introduce Red Sun - A Ruby to Flash bytecode translator and UI framework that enables rapid
development of a Flash SWF using Ruby idioms and capabilit...
Seattle.rb Rocks would cover a number of side projects developed by Seattle.rb members in a
lightning-talk-like format. Individual presentations would...
Sit in like a fly on the wall, while Jim Weirich and Joe O'Brien walk through a code review with the
customer, Chris Nelson. The team has uncovered so...
The Ruby Mendicant project was at first meant as a joke. Who would
be crazy enough to donate money to an individual developer to work on
unspecified ...
Ruby 1.9.0 came out in December, but it will be a while before it is stable and major packages have been ported to it. In addition to new features, the...
Code serves two purposes: the first is to instruct the computer to do something, of course, but the
second is to communicate your intentions with othe...
In this talk I will present a task application framework called Tap. Tap on the surface acts like a
supercharged rake, with similar declaration syntax...
This talk is about the many paths towards getting ruby running in your web browser. I'll first talk
about why this is even a good idea. I'll then talk...
