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QCon San Francisco, RubyConf and JRubyConf

10 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

10 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?

10 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

11 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

11 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...

JAOO - A great week in Århus

11 months ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
Late this Saturday I came home from a hard week in Århus, Denmark. Of course, it’s been a great week but it is definitely a change coming back home after...

RubyFoo

11 months ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
I spent this Friday and Saturday in London at the RubyFoo conference, organized by Trifork. RubyFoo is a small pre-conference to the larger JAOO conference...

A new parser for Ioke

11 months ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
Last week I finally bit the bullet and rewrote the Ioke parser. I’m pretty happy about the end result actually, but it does involve moving away from Antlr...

ThoughtWorks Seminar and Tutorial in Stockholm

11 months ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
September 29th, ThoughtWorks will hold a day of seminars and a tutorial in Stockholm, Sweden. The seminars are free. I will talk about alternative languages...

Tutorial at JAOO about JRuby testing

12 months ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
Just thought I’d mention it here - I’m at JAOO this year and will give a tutorial about testing Java with JRuby. I will be a great tutorial and I hope...