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The Need for a Common Compiler Framework
In recent years, we have seen a dramatic rise in the number of languages used in mainstream projects. In particular, languages which run on the JVM... more »
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Writing a compiler in Ruby bottom up - step 9
Ok, so I know it's been far too long. Lots going on at the moment... This is a very short part, but I'll try to get the next part cleaned up in the... more »
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Ruby is a Playground, PHP is a Factory
Ruby, to me, is like a big open playground, while languages like PHP remind me of big industrial factories. I don't think that any of us would argue... more »
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This Week in Ruby (May 20, 2008)
This week's highlights from the Ruby and Rails communities.
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Bullet-proof cookies? Why bother?
This post was on the front-page of dzone today: Bullet Proof Cookies. Did anyone actually read the article? This shows a horrible way to use cookies.... more »
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The Narcissism of Small Code Differences
A pithy commentary on the many wars we start over the "one true way" of solving trivial problems.
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Grid Dynamics + GridGain
At Grid Dynamics we see GridGain as a simple, elegant, extensible, open-source, pure-Java platform that makes traditional high-performance computing... more »
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Writing a compiler in Ruby bottom up - step 5
Last time I promised to post these more frequently, and blatantly failed to find the time... In return, I've taken the time to combine what would have... more »
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Cat: A Functional Stack-Based Little Language
I've always been fascinated by stack-oriented languages because of their simplicity and elegance. Instructions take input off of the stack, do... more »
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A couple of interesting DSLs
It may not yet be an industry tsunami, but there certainly is a growing wave of interest in Domain Specific Languages. As often happens when thinking... more »
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Strawman for a new parser generator
I have very strong opinions when it comes to parser generators. Most parsers I've written have ended up being hand written or have used some... more »
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Is UML on the way out?
One of the presenters at QCon (I think it was John Davies) asked the audience whether they used UML 2.0 and only a couple of people raised their... more »
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Where are the fast dynamic languages?
Something bizarre happened on the Groovy-dev mailing list the other day. Alex Tkachman made what I thought was a simple suggestion: since some rarely... more »
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Peach - Parallel Each
It is pretty common to have iterations over Arrays that can be safely run in parallel. With multicore chips becoming pretty common, single threaded... more »
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Coupling is NOT always bad
I think Vidar makes some good points and I generally agree with a lot of what he says, but I find it silly to say “Coupling is always bad”.
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Abusing Ruby’s question mark methods
I’ve always enjoyed the ruby convention of using question marks to denote boolean methods. empty?, exist?, any?, alive?, etc… They’re concise and easy... more »
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Other cool ruby projects
With all the noise that Rails makes, you would be forgiven for thinking that it is the be all and end all of the Ruby world - sure it has popularised... more »
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Class Creation - To Create or Not To Create, That Is The Question.
Can't decide whether to create a new class or just add your feature to the existing one. This might help you decide which to choose.
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How Not To Form a Standard
Out of a 6000 page submission, here is but one example of how Microsoft's OOXML becomes painful to implement.
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Extending Ruby's RSS Parser
Parsing an RSS feed that has namespace-specific elements is a fairly common task. This entry explains a simple method to use Ruby's own classes to... more »
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‘inject’, ‘each’ and ‘times’ methods much slower in Ruby 1.9
Some interesting benchmarks.
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StrokeDB is an embeddable distributed document database written in Ruby
StrokeDB is an embeddable distributed document database written in Ruby. It is schema-free, it scales infinitely, it even tracks revisions and... more »
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Sign Up Forms Must Die
I’ll just come out and say this: sign-up forms must die. In the introduction to this book I described the process of stumbling upon or being... more »
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Scala: Still Uncomfortable After Five Years
Notice the word uncomfortable, which is different from other more objective descriptions like "Scala sucks," or "Scala is the next big thing."
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Some more advanced GC techniques
After my last two posts about garbage collection, some people people suggested some more advanced techniques be used to solve the pausing problem.... more »
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