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O'Reilly Ruby: Jump Start Rails 13 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Jump Start Rails provides you with a fun and yet practical introduction to Rails, an incredibly popular framework that makes it possible to quickly develop incredibly powerful web applications with Ru...
Dave Thomas: Pragmatic Royalties—2013 Edition 3 Aug 2013 | 07:13 am
Back in 2009, I posted a summary of the breakdown of the royalties we paid on our titles. Susannah, our managing editor, has been suggesting for a while that I should update it. I was surprised by wha...
O'Reilly Ruby: Four short links: 31 July 2013 31 Jul 2013 | 05:00 pm
How to Easily Resize and Cache Images for the Mobile Web (Pete Warden) — I set up a server running the excellent ImageProxy open-source project, and then I placed a Cloudfront CDN in front of it to ca...
Tomasz Wegrzanowski: Shellwords.split technique for Ruby scripting 8 Jul 2013 | 03:00 am
I write 100% of my shell scripts in Ruby (by the way, here are some of the scripts I wrote). If you prefer Perl, or Python or something else relatively sane, all power to you - but people who write co...
O'Reilly Ruby: Programming Ruby 1.9 & 2.0 28 Jun 2013 | 02:00 am
Ruby is the fastest growing and most exciting dynamic language out there. If you need to get working programs delivered fast, you should add Ruby to your toolbox. This book is the only complete refer...
Charles Oliver Nutter: The Pain of Broken Subprocess Management on JDK 7 Jun 2013 | 08:00 am
I prefer to write happy posts...I really do. But tonight I'm completely defeated by the JDK's implementation of subprocess launching, and I need to tell the world why. JRuby has always strived to mim...
O'Reilly Ruby: Really Understanding Computation 4 Jun 2013 | 11:00 pm
It’s great to see that Tom Stuart’s Understanding Computation has made it out. I’ve been excited about this book ever since we signed it. Understanding Computation started from Tom’s talk Programming ...
O'Reilly Ruby: Understanding Computation 25 May 2013 | 02:28 am
Finally, you can learn computation theory and programming language design in an engaging, practical way. Understanding Computation explains theoretical computer science in a context you’ll recognize, ...
Charles Oliver Nutter: On Languages, VMs, Optimization, and the Way of the World 11 May 2013 | 09:10 am
I shouldn't be up this late, but I've been doing lots of thinking and exploring tonight. In studying various VMs over the past few years, I've come up with a list of do's and don't that make things o...
Tomasz Wegrzanowski: Small Unix utilities written in Ruby - part 3 6 May 2013 | 07:10 am
Here's the third instalment in my ongoing series (Part 1. Part 2). All utilities mentioned are available on github. flickr_find Find Creative Commons licenced photos on flickr. Usage example: flick...
