Posts Tagged ‘ Ruby ’

Rails + Merb = Rails 3

I’m rather excited about this. Saw this talk right here. Oh, and then there’s this. [ READ MORE ]

Talks I am willing to give

The following are possible talks I am willing to give at a future SCOSUG meeting. Emacs concurrency (or lack thereof) XSLT for fun and profit Programming with distributed objects in Ruby Unit testing JavaScript That is all. [ READ MORE ]

Can I get a little MapReduce from my Debian people?

Debian is a world-class Linux distribution. It is used on it’s own for so many applications (desktop, laptop, workstation, handeld, server, etc.) as well as the foundation for so many wonderful projects ((U|K|X)buntu, Maemo, etc.). Personally, I run Debian on my laptop as well as my servers.  In fact, when I went to see about [ READ MORE ]

Languages, platforms, paradigms and speed

Ever since the latest round of Ruby benchmarks came out and everyone got all excited, I got to thinking about the overall discussion about languages and the interpreted vs. compiled debate. To be fair, there will always be those who take a specific side for some small-but-important-to-them reason yet this has not stopped so many [ READ MORE ]

I have discovered Sinatra and gained enlightenment

I don’t mean Frank Sinatra, I attained enlightenment from him when I was in fifth grade and my father sat me down to teach me the way of the rat pack. That day, I learned many things and as I stayed up late, sneakily listening to one of his latest anthologies (remastered of course), the [ READ MORE ]

Trouble testing timestamps

Since I’ve been encouraging myself to write more and better unit tests, I have encountered a troubling obstacle when writing tests to cover timestamp creation and updating. Let’s say I have a Record class which has a modification and creation timestamp. The ctime instance variable is created when a Record is instatiated and mtime is [ READ MORE ]

Introducing RadiateFS: a networked filesystem written in Ruby

After a discussion with my friend Erik and following the consumption of much pastry, I decided to try and write a networked filesystem using only Ruby and FUSE. After one iteration, I had everything documented and ready to go but I wasn’t happy with the design or the architecture. In large part, I discovered shortcomings [ READ MORE ]

Convert your favorite language to JavaScript

As usual, Joel called it. He predicted the rise in JavaScript toolkits followed by smart compilers which turn other languages into JS. Though there are a number of neat frameworks out there which leverage some of the true power which lies within JS as a language (most notably SproutCore), there are some which go a [ READ MORE ]

Ruby 1.9.1 released: Huzzah!

There was much celebration throughout the Internets as it was announced that Ruby 1.9.1 has been released as stable. I am very excited and wondering how long until it gets into Debian. Will it even make it into testing considering how widely it’s used and how Ruby1.9 already exists in Lenny? I hope so… [ READ MORE ]

Walking in someone else’s shoes

Just discovered Shoes, the lightweight GUI toolkit writte by why the lucky stiff. Unfortunately, I seem to have a very old version of it included in Debian Lenny and it doesn’t seem as if the one in Sid is any newer. Oh well, that didn’t stop me from writing a little app which, in addition [ READ MORE ]

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Jonathan E. Magen is a passionate developer who loves cooking and writing clean code. Star Trek is cool, too. Also, books. Many things are actually really great and Jonathan likes them as well.

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