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More on Ruby Performance

over 5 years ago by Austin Ziegler on halostatue.
After yesterday's post (Joel on Ruby), Vidar of edgeio (a classified advertising site) posted to ruby-talk his experience with using Ruby in a high-performance...

Joel on Ruby

over 5 years ago by Austin Ziegler on halostatue.
Joel Spolsky wrote a little piece today on web programming. In the main, I think he's right. But he makes some statements about Ruby that are dead wrong...

ARIEL: A Mentor’s Mini-Review

over 5 years ago by Austin Ziegler on halostatue.
As some of you may or may not know (all three readers of my blog, I’m sure), I was the mentor of Alex Bradbury’s ARIEL project, which was submitted...

Three Paragraphs on Duck Typing

over 5 years ago by Austin Ziegler on halostatue.
Not counting my paragraphs, of course. In the course of the thread “Static typing ain’t so bad, after all…” on ruby-talk, David Vallner...

Holiday Rubyist Meet Wrapup

almost 6 years ago by Austin Ziegler on halostatue.
So while I was in Europe, I gave a talk to the London Ruby Users Group for which I ran out of time (I was just warming up!)....

Deutsches Rubyists

almost 6 years ago by Austin Ziegler on halostatue.
In the last ten days, I have met two charming German Rubyists: Hagen (whose surname I never learned) and Urban Hafner. I missed meeting Armin Roehrl because...

London Ruby Users Group

almost 6 years ago by Austin Ziegler on halostatue.
I spoke on a number of things tonight at the London Ruby Users Group…...

Beware First Impressions

almost 6 years ago by Austin Ziegler on halostatue.
Adam Connor doesn’t like a few things about Ruby. He’s certainly correct that there are warts in the Ruby language, but much of what he’s described aren...

Rubyists in London, Germany, Amsterdam?

almost 6 years ago by Austin Ziegler on halostatue.
I am going to be in Europe on vacation from July 8th and would love to have the opportunity to meet Rubyists from the London area, various places in Germany...

#trug on irc.freenode.net

almost 6 years ago by Austin Ziegler on halostatue.
The Toronto Ruby Users Group has an IRC channel on Freenode....