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Leave the Driving to Us

almost 6 years ago by Lyle on Lovable Lyle.
I just visited Progressive’s Drive Insurance web site to try to get auto insurance quotes. I can enter my zip code, and the fact that I’m looking...

BarCamp Birmingham

almost 6 years ago by Lyle on Lovable Lyle.
I’ve just learned of a Birmingham BarCamp that’s being organized for August 25-26, and I’m thinking about attending. To be honest,...

Christmas Comes Early

almost 6 years ago by Lyle on Lovable Lyle.
The combination of a bonus at work, plus a recent kernel panic on my aging TiBook, are the signs I was looking for that it’s time to upgrade to one...

A Longish Post about Package Names and Versioning

almost 6 years ago by Lyle on Lovable Lyle.
So, I’ve created a bit of a mess with regards to the naming of different versions of FXRuby and am trying to decide how best to solve that problem...

FXRuby 1.6 Released

almost 6 years ago by Lyle on Lovable Lyle.
Well, I just made the first official release of FXRuby 1.6. Read the announcement here and get it here. FXRuby...

On Ruby’s Performance

almost 6 years ago by Lyle on Lovable Lyle.
Comments in a recent interview of Zed Shaw have sparked a new round of discussion concerning Ruby’s performance (see the thread beginning here). Unlike...

Automating PowerPoint with Ruby

~6 years ago by Lyle on Lovable Lyle.
I knew that Ruby had some support for Windows OLE Automation—I vaguely remembered skimming over that part in Programming Ruby, once upon a time—...