Posts Tagged ‘ Ruby ’

newhaven.rb hackfest tomorrow!

Tomorrow, in New Haven, CT will be the “Ruby, White and Blue” Hackfest run by newhaven.rb. We’ll be working on a few projects including the group’s site and most likely some Prawn and ScosugBot stuff. Beginners and people interested in learning are more than welcome and we hope to have some excellent projects for people [ READ MORE ]

Creating a Ruby DSL

Tons of people in the Ruby community go on and on about domain-specific languages (abbreviated DSL) and how wonderful they are. In most cases, I agree with them. I began to wonder how I could go about leveraging Ruby’s awesomely-flexible syntax to create my own DSL. To illustrate my quest, I have written this article. [ READ MORE ]

HTML5 has custom data attributes

So, I know that the Microformats project has has varying degrees of success in their endeavor to embed data in HTML such that it does not violate web standards.  As John Resig pointed out, others have used things like XML namespacing in XHTML to achieve similar goals. The most notable usages of this technique are [ READ MORE ]

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 ]

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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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