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Patterns of method missing

4 months ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
One of the more dynamic features of Ruby is method_missing, a way of intercepting method calls that would cause a NoMethodError if method_missing isnâ€...

ThoughtWorks signs EU petition against software patents

5 months ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
I am strongly against software patents, and as such I’m very happy that ThoughtWorks has decided to sign the EU petition against software patents. I recommend...

RubyConf India was a great success!

5 months ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
This weekend ThoughtWorks in collaboration with RubyCentral and several sponsors arranged the first ever RubyConf India. I was there as a keynote speaker...

ThoughtWorks JRuby Geek Night in Pune

5 months ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
I should really have blogged this earlier, but the last few weeks have been hectic. Anyway, better late then never, eh? Tonight - that is Wednesday, March...

ÃœberConf

5 months ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
I will speak at ÃœberConf in Denver in June. Should be lots of fun! I will talk about JRuby and building languages. I might also possibly cover Ioke - we...

Destructuring extravaganza

6 months 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

7 months 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

8 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

9 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

9 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...