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Erlang Message Passing

almost 5 years ago by James Edward Gray II on Shades of Gray.
Like many Pragmatic Programmer fans, I've been having a look at Erlang recently by working my Programming Erlang. In the book, the author includes a challenge...

The Ruby VM: Episode V

almost 5 years ago by James Edward Gray II on Shades of Gray.
For details about this ongoing interview, please see my introductory post. You have told us before that one of the big reasons to move to a new Ruby VM...

The Ruby VM: Episode IV

almost 5 years ago by James Edward Gray II on Shades of Gray.
For details about this ongoing interview, please see my introductory post. We've talked about threads, so let's talk a little about character encodings...

The Ruby VM: Episode III

~5 years ago by James Edward Gray II on Shades of Gray.
For details about this ongoing interview, please see my introductory post. Let's talk a little about threading, since that's a significant change in the...

No Longer the Fastest Game in Town

~5 years ago by James Edward Gray II on Shades of Gray.
If your number one concern when working with CSV data in Ruby is raw speed, you might want to know that FasterCSV is no longer the fastest option. There...

The Ruby VM: Episode II

~5 years ago by James Edward Gray II on Shades of Gray.
For details about this ongoing interview, please see my introductory post. We started these talks because of the excitement around the alternate implementations...

I believe in Ruby

over 5 years ago by James Edward Gray II on Shades of Gray.
For the contest and all you Bull Durham fans... Well, I believe in blocks, iterators, closures, that everything should be an object, the power of reflection...

The Ruby VM: Episode I

over 5 years ago by James Edward Gray II on Shades of Gray. [Linked from: Ruby Inside]
For details about this ongoing interview, please see my introductory post. Hello and thank you both for agreeing to answer my questions. To begin, would...

The Ruby VM Serial Interview

over 5 years ago by James Edward Gray II on Shades of Gray.
I have really enjoyed reading Pat Eyler's Rubinius Serial Interview and Nick Sieger's spun-off JRuby Serial Interview. It's very educational to read what...

news_to_mail.rb

over 5 years ago by James Edward Gray II on Shades of Gray.
Required Reading: You need to know what the Gateway is and the rules for suggesting changes before reading this article. I have written up details on...