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Ruby: An EventMachine Tutorial
Ruby / EventMachine is an event-driven networking library for Ruby, similar to Twisted for Python. Certain aspects of it are also similar to... 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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Headius: The Road to Babel
I'm publicly announcing that we at Sun are hosting a JVM Language Summit. It's long overdue in my opinion...we should have been having these events... more »
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Use examples to make your code easier to understand
Einstein said that examples is not another way to teach, it is the only way. How does that apply to programming?
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Trolltech makes Qt run as GTK+
It seems the fine folks at Trolltech are working on making this go away by allowing Qt apps to use GTK+ for all the rendering (not imitated, real... more »
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This Week in Ruby (May 12, 2008)
Highlights from the Ruby, Rails and Merb communities.
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Real World Haskell
Haskell is a deep language, and we think that learning it is a hugely rewarding experience. We will focus on three elements as we explain why we think... more »
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F# 1.9.4 Now Available: Making F# Simpler and More Consistent
We're very glad to announce the release of F# 1.9.4, the Spring Refresh of F#, uploaded to the Microsoft Research download site yesterday! (MSI... more »
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Under the hood: Ruby’s global variables
Ruby’s global variables - I have long been aware of their existence in the background, but I hadn’t realised quite how many are initialized by... more »
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JavaOne 2008 - Subversion 1.5 is coming!
This morning, I went to a talk by some of the CollabNet guys on the now-imminent release of Subversion 1.5. I've talked about some of the main new... more »
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Opera Releases Firebug Alternative: Dragonfly
For web developers, and especially front-end coders, the Firefox extension Firebug by Facebook’s Joe Hewitt is a killer app and major time saver. It... more »
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Opera Dragonfly Architecture
This article covers the architecture of Opera Dragonfly in detail, showing what the different components in the architecture are, and how they... more »
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Introduction to Opera Dragonfly
Opera Dragonfly is Opera's all-new set of developer tools, designed to give developers a lightweight-but-powerful application that provides effective... more »
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Scala 2.7.1.final
We are pleased to announce version 2.7.1.final of the Scala distribution.
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Rails gets more mature
Rails 2.1 is right around the corner. I’ve been following the new features in Edge Rails and eagerly looking forward to this release. Rails 2.1... more »
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Popularizing Django — Or Reusable apps considered harmful.
Let’s see what a Killer app gives you. 1. It fills a big niche, so people are forced to learn your language/framework. 2. It forces the... more »
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interface injection in the VM
“Self-modifying code...” used to be a phrase always uttered (by us hackers) with tones of both admiration and dread. Admiration, because there are... more »
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NetBeans 6.1 JRuby trick: Enable JRuby Console
One minor issue with NetBeans 6.1 is that it ships by default with very basic IRB console for Ruby: no history, no pop-ups for code completion. Since... more »
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Compile Ruby to Python bytecode
Compile Ruby to Python bytecode. And, in addition, translate that bytecode back to Python source code using Decompyle (included.) Requires Ruby 1.9... more »
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This Week in Ruby (May 5, 2008)
Net::SSH 2.0, MagLev, Rails 2.1 and more...
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F# in 20 Minutes - Part I
With the April Refresh hot off the presses, I figured it was time to write a concise, 20-minute introduction to F#. The goal isn't to teach F#, but... more »
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Is Scala Really the Next C++?
I’ve been turning that question over in my head for a few months now. It’s really a worthy thought. At face value, it’s incredibly derogatory and... more »
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Writing Join in Erlang
Earlier today I found myself needing to join something in Erlang, and after spending a few minutes looking around for a join function in the lists... more »
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Distributed programming with Jabber and EventMachine
Jabber and its underlying protocol XMPP are typically associated with instant messaging applications, although the breadth and flexibility of the... more »
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A couple GC algorithms in more detail
In previous posts on garbage collection, I've given a pretty cursory overview as to how things actually work. In this post, I hope to give a somewhat... more »
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