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Falling out of love with a language

~4 hours ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
So, Giles Bowkett asked me on facebook “Why Perl?”. This is the long answer. I’m a Perl hacker. I have been for around 16 years now. Around 5...

Michael Fogus talks to RubyLearning’s Clojure Course Participants

~11 hours ago by Satish Talim on RubyLearning Blog.
On the eve of the first free, online “Clojure 101” course, Michael Kohl of RubyLearning caught up with Michael Fogus, author of the forthcoming book...

Stuart Halloway talks to RubyLearning’s Clojure Course Participants

~16 hours ago by Satish Talim on RubyLearning Blog.
On the eve of the first free, online “Clojure 101” course, Michael Kohl of RubyLearning caught up with Stuart Halloway, author of Programming Clojure...

How To Find Ruby User Groups

1 day ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Ruby User Groups (RUGs, for short) are typically informal organizations put together to encourage Ruby developers with certain areas to get together, share...

Ruby Tuesdays: RBP Chapter 7

1 day ago by Gregory Brown on Ruby Best Practices.
If you’re reading this blog, you probably know that the Ruby Best Practices book exists. Even if you haven’t read it, you might have a sense for the...

RailsWayCon: I am attending

1 day ago by joost on Space Babies.
Being part of the Rails community is great. It’s filled with admirable people like Katz, Koz, en Fuchs. All are active Rails core members. So I decided...

Clojure 101: A New Course

1 day ago by Satish Talim on RubyLearning Blog.
About RubyLearning RL offers online courses in Ruby programming, Git & GitHub, FXRuby, Shoes, JRuby and Sinatra. Since 2005, over 20,000 participants spread...

Vagrant: EC2-Like Virtual Machine Building and Provisioning from Ruby

1 day ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Vagrant is a Ruby-based tool for building and deploying virtualized development environments. It uses Oracle's open-source VirtualBox virtualization system...

Episode 204: XSS Protection in Rails 3

2 days ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
It is easy to be vulnerable to cross site scripting attacks in earlier versions of Rails, but Rails 3 solves this by automatically escaping unsafe input...

win32console 1.3.0.beta2 released

3 days ago by Luis on DEV_MEM.dump_to(:blog) - Multimedia systems blog.
I’ve just released a second beta of win32console gem. What’s new? Only two new things: STDERR is now redirected (wasn’t before) and the addition of...