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RubyKaigi: Making a Japanese Conference Accessible to the World 25 Jun 2013 | 05:00 am
Note: I co-wrote this article with Chris Salzberg, an American Rubyist living in Japan who attended RubyKaigi. For the first time, RubyKaigi offered simultaneous translation from Japanese to English...
Meet Fifteen Ruby Core Committers 18 Jun 2013 | 05:00 am
We all know Yukihiro Matsumoto invented Ruby, but how many of the other people behind Ruby can you name? Judging from this photo taken just a few weeks ago at RubyKaigi 2013, the Ruby 2.0 release was ...
Coming This Fall: “Ruby Under a Microscope” Updated and in Print 4 Jun 2013 | 05:00 am
With almost 200 diagrams, my 2012 eBook is an illustrated guide to Ruby internals
Ruby, Python, Java, C and Programmer Happiness 3 Jun 2013 | 05:00 am
“Ruby is designed to make programmers happy.” - Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto Not everyone might agree, but as a Rubyist I think Matz achieved his design goal. There’s something intangible about Ruby’s s...
Ruby’s Missing Data Structure 11 Apr 2013 | 05:00 am
Have you ever noticed Ruby doesn’t include support for linked lists? Most computer science textbooks are filled with algorithms, examples and exercises based on linked lists: inserting or removing ele...
Ruby 2.0 Works Hard So You Can Be Lazy 3 Apr 2013 | 05:00 am
Lazy enumeration isn’t magic; it’s just a matter of hard work Ruby 2.0’s new lazy enumerator feature seems like magic. In case you haven’t
An Interview With Laurent Sansonetti 12 Feb 2013 | 05:00 am
Laurent Sansonetti created RubyMotion It was only last April when Laurent Sansonetti captured the imagination of the
Ruby MRI Source Code Idioms #3: Embedded Objects 8 Feb 2013 | 05:00 am
Last year I wrote a post about how the core team optimized Ruby to process shorter strings faster than longer strings. I found that Ruby strings containing 23 or fewer characters are much faster. Why ...
Ruby MRI Source Code Idioms #2: C That Resembles Ruby 31 Jan 2013 | 05:00 am
Reading Ruby’s C source code can be as easy as reading your own Ruby code
Ruby MRI Source Code Idioms #1: Accessing Data Via Macros 23 Jan 2013 | 05:00 am
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