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No Battles for Matz

over 5 years ago by why the lucky stiff on Redhanded.
matz: That indicates that he trusts himself, and not me (Ruby). And I think he’s right. In response to Joel....

Airborne Man Chiseled from Ruby to Speak Next Week

over 5 years ago by why the lucky stiff on Redhanded.
William Crawford: This was slightly after the presentation and Polypus flew up on his jetpack to announce that he was speaking next week. Along...

Trimming Off the Internet

over 5 years ago by why the lucky stiff on Redhanded.
Anyone wondering about MouseHole 2? Rany Keddo has posted some instructions for winding it up. And, along with that, he posts one of the first MouseHole...

The Sandbox is Loading Gems and Acting Less Freaky

over 5 years ago by why the lucky stiff on Redhanded.
I really hoped that 1.8.5 and the sandbox would go hand and glove, but continuing development has caused a split from Ruby 1.8.5. (See the patch.) But,...

The New Ruby-Lang

over 5 years ago by why the lucky stiff on Redhanded. [Linked from: Yup Dot Com]
You remember the 2005 redesign of Ruby-Lang? Well, it’s on! We had a long dryspell trying to work out the code and the content, but John Long and...

The Principle of Hard Not to Understand

over 5 years ago by why the lucky stiff on Redhanded.
Chang Sau Sheong: Ruby has an elegant form to it that is simply a pleasure to program in. A simple example of this is the way Ruby treats everything...

It's Just Not Right Without the Chuckles of Passersby

over 5 years ago by why the lucky stiff on Redhanded.
Fredrik Lundh: I must admit that I find all the guidology in the wake of the rumoured “I like Django” BDFL announcement rather amusing. has...

Marshalling Ruby 2.0 Codes

over 5 years ago by why the lucky stiff on Redhanded.
We’re all eager to see YARV spout real live bytecode, but ko1 has a fun sort of inbetween option: marshalling arrays containing Ruby 2.0 instructions...

Ruby 1.8.5 is Real Close, Here's Preview 4.

almost 6 years ago by why the lucky stiff on Redhanded.
Today Matz announced 1.8.5-preview 4. ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.5-preview4.tar.gz c30cdad5b208116682db24d548f20b2f I’ve...

Camping Gets J'd, Placing It at the Very Epicenter of Hate!

almost 6 years ago by why the lucky stiff on Redhanded.
Oh, this is wise. So, Camping already had two INCREDIBLY GOOD reasons for hating it. First, it’s a Ruby framework that’s not Rails. So bigtime...