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JRuby Update: Continuous Improvement

~5 years ago by Nick Sieger on Nick Sieger.
JRuby development pace has been fast and furious for the past few months, and, at times dangerous. While the overall gains have been significant, occasional...

Rubyconf Wrap-Up

over 5 years ago by Nick Sieger on Nick Sieger.
Whew! Back home from my first RubyConf, it’s taken me a couple days to collect some parting thoughts. As you might have noticed, I was pretty busy...

RubyConf: I18n, M17n, Unicode, and all that

over 5 years ago by Nick Sieger on Nick Sieger.
Tim Bray is going to talk about characters and strings. He will gladly talk about text until your arm falls off, and buy half the beer. Introduction English...

RubyConf: Your Ruby in My CLR

over 5 years ago by Nick Sieger on Nick Sieger.
John Lam wanted to build a photo-flash-card application using Avalon and Indigo and Flickr, but also using Ruby as the implementation language. So along...

RubyConf: YARV on Rails

over 5 years ago by Nick Sieger on Nick Sieger.
Koichi SASADA Got a job developing YARV at the University of Tokyo! He’s now employed at Akhihabara, Otaku City. Member of Nihon-Ruby-no-Kai Present...

RubyConf: Matz Keynote

over 5 years ago by Nick Sieger on Nick Sieger.
The Return of the Bikeshed or Nuclear Plant in the Backyard Ruby is Scripting (some people outside of Japan don’t like this one) Programming Lightw...

RubyConf: Natural language generation and processing in Ruby

over 5 years ago by Nick Sieger on Nick Sieger.
Speaker: Michael Granger Michael’s talk was full of excellend pre-recorded video demos, and thus was difficult to note-take. Instead, here are links...

RubyConf: Rinda in the Real World

over 5 years ago by Nick Sieger on Nick Sieger.
Speaker: Glenn Vanderburg Rinda is a distributed coordination system, by Masatoshi SEKI, based on work by David Gelernter (called Linda). It’s similar...

RubyConf: Mac OS X and Ruby

over 5 years ago by Nick Sieger on Nick Sieger.
Laurent Sansonetti, who works at Apple Computer, is now in charge of maintaining Ruby inside the OS. History of Ruby in the OS 10.2 shipped with Ruby...

RubyConf: Nathaniel Talbott: Open Classes, Open Companies

over 5 years ago by Nick Sieger on Nick Sieger.
Nathaniel is honored to be speaking at RubyConf for the sixth year in a row. His basic premise for today is this: the language you’ve chosen has...