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Destructuring extravaganza

13 days ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
A few months back I added support for destructuring assignment and tuples to Ioke. Since Ioke’s assignment is just a regular method call, this was actually...

RubyConf India

~1 month ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
I am part of a team at ThoughtWorks helping out organizing the very first RubyConf in India. I’m very excited about this. So if you have the possibility...

Ioke P released

2 months ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
I am very happy to announce that Ioke P has finally been released! Ioke is a language that is designed to be as expressive as possible. It is a dynamic...

Path problem with Emacs on Mac OS X

3 months ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
One of the problems you might encounter using a native Emacs on top of Mac OS X is that your custom PATH variable doesn’t really translate into your running...

Conference Hat Trick - QCon, RubyConf, JRubyConf

3 months ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
I’ve just come back from several different conferences. It’s been tiring but also very rewarding. The conferences I attended and presented at was QCon...

QCon San Francisco, RubyConf and JRubyConf

4 months ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
I’m gearing up for the next conference stretch. This time it’s San Francisco next week, and I really hope to see lots of people at these conferences...

A week at Øredev

4 months ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
I just came back from 10 days in Malmö, Sweden, for the Øredev conference. I’ve had a great time. Part of that was because I had Stella with me, and...

Should languages be multi-lingual?

4 months ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
I’m currently sitting in the Beijing ThoughtWorks office, and for some reason language is on my mind… =) One of the discussions related to DDD that...

Plan to write big software - and you have already lost

5 months ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
This idea came to me as a tweet, but was way too long for a tweet. As it turns out, it’s also something I’ve been saying a lot lately, since it’s...

Ioke sequence support

5 months ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
The last two weeks I’ve been working on adding external iterators to Ioke. This work is now done and merged, so I thought I’d just describe it a bit...