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Weekend Links

22 days ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
A few bits and pieces that have crossed my browser in the past couple of weeks (though mostly sifted through yesterday). The NoSQL (or LessSQL) movement...

Week 126

23 days ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
Once again I set out to write some weeknotes a few days ago, but the distractions of email got in the way and then it was time to dodge the umbrellas of...

The Complete Numeric Class

23 days ago by Robert Klemme on Ruby Best Practices.
As announced in the previous article we will look at a complete number class today. I will use the example of a integer number which, when printed, will...

Community Day ‘10 is coming up

24 days ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
I did a well-received talk on ActiveRecord at last year’s Community Day. Community Day ‘09 was the first of its kind in Copenhagen, and it was quite...

Rails 3 Generators: The Unusuals (part 1)

24 days ago by Ben Scofield, Technology Director on Viget Extend : The Development Lab.
OK, we’ve seen how the most common generators have changed (some more than others) in Rails 3. Let’s look at a few more that’ve been around for a...

Book Review: DSLs in Boo

25 days ago by Andrew Glover on The Disco Blog.
While I don’t spend a lot of time on the .NET platform anymore, I’m still a big fan of Boo. Having cut my teeth on Python many years ago, I’ve always...

MegaMythen: play with the Greek Gods

25 days ago by joost on Space Babies.
Late last year I have built the back-end for a very slick online game called MegaMythen. In this game you can play with the ancient Greek Gods and travel...

Great Lakes Ruby Bash

26 days ago by John Nunemaker on RailsTips.org - Home.
In which I mention a conference you should definitely go to....

Rails 3 Generators: The Old Faithful

26 days ago by Ben Scofield, Technology Director on Viget Extend : The Development Lab.
I figured it would be best to start the tour of Rails 3 generators with those that are most commonly used. Assuming I'm representative of most Rails developers...

Harmony: JavaScript And A DOM Environment In Ruby

27 days ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Harmony, from Martin Aumont, is a new Ruby DSL for executing JavaScript and DOM-using code from within Ruby apps. Why's that cool? Well, it enables you...