With the growth of faster and cheaper low-power processors and inexpensive RAM, the days where embedded applications had to be developed in C or assembler are numbered. For many applications, it is now possible to provide excellent performance with software written primarily in our favorite language, Ruby. There are, however, …
Unfactoring is the process of taking well designed software and, through an iterative series of small changes, making it completely unmaintainable by anyone but you. A very humorous and valuable presentation made by Rein Henrichs at RubyConf 2008.
Dynamically typed programming languages such as Perl, Python and Ruby have been gradually gaining popularity and momentum for the past fifteen years. However, dynamic languages are also arguably the biggest source of controversy in the industry. In this talk, Steve Yegge debunks some of the issues considered central to the …
Tor Norbye presents a new feature for NetBeans 7.0: Code Coverage support! In this screencast you will see the Ruby version. Note that the Ruby support isn’t integrated into the 7.0 builds just yet. http://www.netbeans.tv/screencasts/Ruby-Code-Coverage-in-NetBeans-433/
Ola Bini is a Swedish developer currently working for ThoughtWorks in Stockholm, Sweden. He has been one of the core developers for JRuby since 2006 and is the author of the APress book Practical JRuby on Rails. He has much experience with Java, Ruby and LISP, and has been involved …
In this talk from RubyFringe, Dan Grigsby talks about trying out many different ideas before turning one into a startup. Dan is the founder of Merchant Planet, an early e-commerce provider ultimately acquired by Microsoft. Then he was the founder and initial developer of payMe.com, a successful early-days competitor to …