MWRC Lightning Talks info and video link
Chris Shea gives the schedules speakers for the first round of Lightning Talks at MWRC 2008, with a link to the video.
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MountainWest RubyConf Donating to Ruby Mendicant
There's going to be a fund drive for the Ruby Mendicant project at this years MountainWest RubyConf.
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EY HackFest at MWRC!
Some time ago, I told you that one of the sponsors was planning to do something pretty cool, and I think you’ll agree that they’ve done it in spades... more »
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EngineYard's MountainWest RubyConf Hackfest
Will you be at MountainWest RubyConf March 28-29 in Salt Lake City? Aside from the obvious conference goodness, here's another reason it's the place... more »
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Practical Erlang Programming Mini Interview
Jan Henry Nystrom and Francesco Cesarini, the authors of Practical Erlang Programming , have been kind enough to continue our discussion. Here's the... more »
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Practical Erlang Mini-Interview
More info about O'Reilly's upcoming Erlang book, straight from the horses' mouth.
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More Book Rumours (Erlang)
It's not just O'Reilly that's thinking about an Erlang book.
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TakeFive: Five Questions with Pat Eyler
Five Runs is interviewing people from the Ruby community for their blog. This week, it's Pat Eyler's turn.
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Where are you hoping to go to learn more about Ruby/Rails and get involved in the community
What's the best way to get out into the Ruby world, meet other hackers, and learn more about Ruby? Take part in this poll to help drive the... more »
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Tests Reflect Code Quality
A pattern that I've seen in almost every codebase is that you can usually tell how well a codebase is written by the tests that cover the codebase.
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Merb 0.9.0 (developer release)
A few minutes ago I pushed the gems for Merb 0.9.0 “All you need, none you don’t” to merbivore.com. We’ve chopped Merb up a little bit. merb-core is... more »
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Book Review: Pulling Strings with Puppet
Puppet is a great looking configuration management tool written in Ruby, from Luke Kanies at Reductive Labs. Recently, James Turnbull has written a... more »
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Books and Rumours of Books
It looks like O'Reilly is going to publish an Erlang book fairly soon. Here's a bit about it.
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What do you want to see in mod_rubinius?
Engine Yard has hired rue (Eero Saynatkari) to work on mod_rubinius. They want to know what we want to see in it. So, go tell them already!
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Puppet Interview with James Turnbull
I took my first serious look at Ruby about the same time I found Puppet. It is a very elegant language and one well suited to beginners and system... more »
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Puppet Interview with Luke Kanies
I’m currently reading Pulling Strings with Puppet, the new book from Apress. So far I’m really enjoying it, look for a review in a week or two. The... more »
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FamilySearch Conference Announced
FamilySearch is announcing a conference aimed at Ruby, Perl, Python, PHP, Java, and other developers. The newly released FamilySearch Family Tree API... more »
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Closing the First DTrace Loop
Luke Kainies talks about using DTrace to improve the performance of Puppet.
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Testing Metrics and Confidence
Metrics are fine, as long as you don’t mistake them for something actually meaningful. * Heckle and Flog users are exempt from this discussion. If... more »
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February 2008 [Erlang] Tidbits
Training and book news about Erlang.
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What is Erlang-Style Concurrency?
Every now and then, a blog article appears on how to do “Erlang-Style Concurrency” in language X. I think this is a very good thing, as it indicates... more »
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Riding the Rails with WebSphere
This article is the first of two that demonstrates how a Ruby on Rails application can be deployed inside of WebSphere Application Server V6.1, and... more »
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rupd-prof 0.6.0 and Memory Profiling
A new version of ruby-prof is out, and not only does it support 1.9 (yay!), but it's got initial support for memory profiling baked right in (w00t!).
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What Will Matz Do?
On the other hand we have Rubinius rapidly speccing out Ruby's behaviours and writing Ruby-in-Ruby on top of a tight virtual machine. They're playing... more »
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Garbage Collection is Why Ruby on Rails is Slow: Patches to Improve Performance 5x; Memory Profiling
Ruby on Rails performance is dominated by garbage collection. We present a set of patches to greatly improve Rails performance and show how to profile... more »
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