MountainWest RubyConf: Gregory Brown


over 5 years ago by pate on On Ruby.
This is my second in a series of posts about the speakers at MountainWest RubyConf (you can read the first one here). One of our speakers is Gregory Brown...

Serial rubinius Interview: Episode V


over 5 years ago by pate on On Ruby.
This week's episode hits three points; Evan's next steps with rubinius, garnet (the new name for cuby), and Software Transactional Memory (STM...

FamilyLearn Interview


over 5 years ago by pate on On Ruby.
Duane Johnson and Neal Harmon are a programmer at and the president of FamilyLearn, a small company using Ruby, Rails, and Amazon's S3 and EC2. They...

MountainWest RubyConf: Open For Registration


over 5 years ago by pate on On Ruby.
Wow! The MountainWest RubyConf is taking registrations now. It's been long, hard road and we wouldn't have made it without the excellent work...

Rubinius Library Writing Guide


over 5 years ago by pate on On Ruby.
Brixen has put together a nice how-to on writing libraries for rubinius. He starts out with an overview of the library architecture, then moves on to...

Author Interview: Brian Marick


over 5 years ago by pate on On Ruby.
Brian Marick, the author of the recently released Everyday Scripting with Ruby, was gracious enough to spend some time talking with my about books (including...

MountainWest RubyConf: JRuby


over 5 years ago by pate on On Ruby.
I wanted to share a little more insight into the 2007 MountainWest RubyConf, and thought that introducing you to some of our presenters would be the best...

More ParseTree Goodness


~6 years ago by pate on On Ruby.
Sean and I decided to work on finding noops in conditionals for checkr. It turns out ParseTree made this a lot easier than we thought it would. Here...

Workin' in the coal mine


~6 years ago by pate on On Ruby.
Sometimes, it doesn't look like there's anything as dark and forbidding as a coal mine, unless it's the inside of Ruby's C implementation...

Betty Has Buttons


~6 years ago by pate on On Ruby.
I took an interviewing class a long time ago, and the teacher talked about an idea that I'm still finding new ways to apply. She called it a "Betty...