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Amethyst 2 Launches - visual Flash and Flex

~21 hours ago by SapphireSteel Software on Ruby In Steel.
SapphireSteel Software has today released Amethyst 2 Ultimate, the only truly ‘visual' IDE for Flex, Flash and ActionScript developers. Visually design...

A “FREE” Online Course: Programming the Web with Ruby – 4th batch

1 day ago by Satish Talim on RubyLearning Blog.
Send to Kindle Programming the Web with Ruby Registrations are now open for RubyLearning’s “Pay if you like”, online course on &#8220...

How tcmalloc Works

3 days ago by James Golick on James on Software - Home.
tl;dr: This is a long blog post that goes in to a bunch of detail about one of the highest performance memory allocators around. You should probably read...

Announcing BubbleConf 2013 date and venue!

6 days ago by Ninh Bui on Phusion Corporate Blog.
BubbleConf: One day of ideas and action with the most vocal minds from tech, design, UX and business. On october 12th 2012, we had the pleasure of co-organizing...

Clojure: Combining Calls To Doseq And Let

6 days ago by Jay Fields on Jay Fields Thoughts.
I've you've ever looked at the docs for clojure's for macro, then you probably know about the :let, :when, and :while modifiers. What you may not know is...

Memory Allocators 101

7 days ago by James Golick on James on Software - Home.
For the last few weeks, I've been working on a couple of patches to tcmalloc, Google's super high performance memory allocator. I'm going to post about...

Emacs Lisp: Font Lock for Clojure's Partial

7 days ago by Jay Fields on Jay Fields Thoughts.
I love using partial, but I dislike the length of the function name. There's a simple solution, define another function with a shorter name that simply...

Ruby 1.9.3-p429 is released

8 days ago by ruby-lang.org on ruby-lang.org.
Now Ruby 1.9.3-p429 is released. We once released p426 some hours before, but it had build problems on some platforms. Use this p429 instead, please. This...

Ruby 1.9.3-p426 is released

8 days ago by ruby-lang.org on ruby-lang.org.
Now Ruby 1.9.3-p426 is released. This release includes a security fix about bundled DL / Fiddle. Object taint bypassing in DL and Fiddle in Ruby (CVE-2013-2065...

Ruby 2.0.0-p195 is released

8 days ago by ruby-lang.org on ruby-lang.org.
Ruby 2.0.0-p195 is released. This is the first patchlevel release of 2.0.0. This release includes a security fix of Ruby DL / Fiddle extension. Object...