This is part of a series I started in March 2008 - you may want to go back and look at older parts if you're new to this series. If you've been following the commits to the Github repository, you've already seen this go in... Specifically, this was the state as at the end of this...

ALBUMS OF THE MONTH: Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit , by Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit There’s something satisfying about watching a performer mature before your eyes. Though Jason Isbell has long been a Twangville favorite, his latest showcases his tremendous growth as a songwriter and perfo...

The last few weeks of working on Skribit have been proved to be rewarding. It’s finally gotten to a point where it’s noticeable that we are making some progress with product development. This past Friday I pushed live the new redesign of Skribit.com. A few weeks ago we hired graphic desi...

As part of my compiler project, one of my imminent decisions is what object model to use, and sine I like Ruby it seemed a good time to go through Ruby and look at the guts of the Ruby object model. If you've dabbled in meta-programming etc. for Ruby this post probably doesn't contain much new stuff...

Joe Gregorio prompted me to take a second look at O’Reilly’s “state of the market” report for books on programming languages. Of particular interest to me is what they report on Ruby: We reported last year that Ruby had grown nicely, had passed Perl and Python, and was knocki...

Ruby Knox (dailypoa.com)...

FX from Ruby Pseudo’s team shares “23 New York Teenagers You Ought to Know About“, an inspiring set of young folk who “are all amazing at what they do” - whether it be photography, design, music, acting or art. While barely (or not even) adult, these kids have more self...

              Analogies of Power: The Printing Press and Programming                             Gutenberg's revolution was huge for mankind. But if you didn't know how to read - it meant nothing. If you could write well - it meant the potential of a new profession. If...

First Came RubyFringe I can’t talk about FutureRuby without first talking about RubyFringe. Last July, the fine folks at Toronto’s Little Coding Shop That Could – Unspace – created one of the best and most memorable conferences I’ve ever attended: RubyFringe. RubyFringe made its mark by ta...

This is part of a series I started in March 2008 - you may want to go back and look at older parts if you're new to this series. Plugging in an operator precedence parser The code as at the end of this part is  available here. A while back I wrote a post about writing a simple operato...