After another complete rewrite of my initial prototype, and after trying out several different design choices (and asking Avi Bryant lots of questions), my web framework is now in a very good shape. And it's got a name: Wee. The core is now around 600 lines of code. The HTML related libraries put another 500 lines of code. The trickiest thing I...

After another complete rewrite of my initial prototype, and after trying out several different design choices (and asking Avi Bryant lots of questions), my web framework is now in a very good shape. And it's got a name: Wee. The core is now around 600 lines of code. The HTML related libraries put another 500 lines of code. The trickiest thing I...

Yesterday evening, after my brother demonstrated me his good-looking Python WebWare application, I decided to write my own Web Framework in Ruby. The idea of this project is in my head for a very long time, it started to get more concrete in a thread of mine on ruby-talk of subject WebShare (;-) but then I lost it again for some time. Then...

Today, I wrote a little application that parses a ChangeLog file and constructs a RSS news feed. The source is available here. The RSS feed for the Ruby ChangeLog is available here: www.ntecs.de/ruby-devel-cvs.rss?cnt=20 (20 entries) www.ntecs.de/ruby-devel-cvs.rss?full (all entries)

Today, I wrote a little application that parses a ChangeLog file and constructs a RSS news feed. The source is available here. The RSS feed for the Ruby ChangeLog is available here: www.ntecs.de/ruby-devel-cvs.rss?cnt=20 (20 entries) www.ntecs.de/ruby-devel-cvs.rss?full (all entries)

Random Rollbacks From time to time our EuRuKo04 Wiki experienced strange and very annoying random rollbacks. After I installed the newest version of Instiki from CVS, which claims to fix this bug, I thought everything is now fine. But only a few days later matju told us that again a random rollback has happened! Now I decided to put an end to...

Random Rollbacks From time to time our EuRuKo04 Wiki experienced strange and very annoying random rollbacks. After I installed the newest version of Instiki from CVS, which claims to fix this bug, I thought everything is now fine. But only a few days later matju told us that again a random rollback has happened! Now I decided to put an end to...

In Part I of the article, I hacked the Ruby interpreter and modified one single line to implement Python Decorators in Ruby. Now I'll show some more examples in both Python and Ruby. The examples are taken from the article Decorate this. Wrapping Let me show the Python example first. def wrapwith(obj): def decorator(f): def _wrapper(*args,...

In Part I of the article, I hacked the Ruby interpreter and modified one single line to implement Python Decorators in Ruby. Now I'll show some more examples in both Python and Ruby. The examples are taken from the article Decorate this. Wrapping Let me show the Python example first. def wrapwith(obj): def decorator(f): def _wrapper(*args,...

Is Ruby human-understandable? Understandable by humans with absolutely no experience in computer programming? How can we as experienced programmers at all answer such a question? Well, we can't! The only way to determine whether a language is easily understood by novices is to actually ask them. To find an answer to this question I performed...

Is Ruby human-understandable? Understandable by humans with absolutely no experience in computer programming? How can we as experienced programmers at all answer such a question? Well, we can't! The only way to determine whether a language is easily understood by novices is to actually ask them. To find an answer to this question I performed...

I read about Python Decorators on Lambda-the-Ultimate. They will be part of Python 2.4. But, was it really worth to add special syntax for something that can be done without problems in a different way? Isn't Python breaking it's own principle "There's only one way to do it"? Will Python become a second Perl? Which so-called "feature" will be...

I read about Python Decorators on Lambda-the-Ultimate. They will be part of Python 2.4. But, was it really worth to add special syntax for something that can be done without problems in a different way? Isn't Python breaking it's own principle "There's only one way to do it"? Will Python become a second Perl? Which so-called "feature" will be...

I will show you in this article how to increase performance of an algorithm by a factor of 10^2086, simply by adding two single lines while not changing any existing code! Yeah, 10^2086 that's a one with 2086 zeros. Here is the "un-optimized" algorithm, the well known Fibonacci function: def fib(n) if (0..1).include? n 1 else fib(n-2) +...

I will show you in this article how to increase performance of an algorithm by a factor of 10^2086, simply by adding two single lines while not changing any existing code! Yeah, 10^2086 that's a one with 2086 zeros. Here is the "un-optimized" algorithm, the well known Fibonacci function: def fib(n) if (0..1).include? n 1 else fib(n-2) +...