Message ruby-talk:103140 on the ruby talk mailing list mentioned problems with the sleep command interacting in strange ways with setting the clock. That reminded me of this story....

Message ruby-talk:103140 on the ruby talk mailing list mentioned problems with the sleep command interacting in strange ways with setting the clock. That reminded me of this story....

I’ve been listing to David Heinemeier Hansson talk on the "Ruby on Rails" project (download the talk here). I really like his summary of Ruby slide which he calls "Ruby in five E’s". I’ll reproduce his summary here: Everything is an object 5.times do print "hello world".capitalize end Elegant blocks gives inline power...

I’ve been listing to David Heinemeier Hansson talk on the "Ruby on Rails" project (download the talk here). I really like his summary of Ruby slide which he calls "Ruby in five E’s". I’ll reproduce his summary here: Everything is an object 5.times do print "hello world".capitalize end Elegant blocks gives inline power...

Class that Don’t Inherit From Object...

Class that Don’t Inherit From Object...

This is a bit late (but Hey! I’ve been busy). Chad Fowler has a good writeup on the new features in the latest RubyGems alpha release. We’ve put a lot of effort into this project and it is looking pretty good. This version is fairly feature complete, but we expect some do some tuning and adjustments. Check it out and provide some...

This is a bit late (but Hey! I’ve been busy). Chad Fowler has a good writeup on the new features in the latest RubyGems alpha release. We’ve put a lot of effort into this project and it is looking pretty good. This version is fairly feature complete, but we expect some do some tuning and adjustments. Check it out and provide some...

Charles Miller notes there are two reasons for using a mock object....

Charles Miller notes there are two reasons for using a mock object....

The Once and Future Perl In February 2001, Larry Wall came to Cincinnati to (amoung other things) give a talk on the future directions that the Perl language would be taking in version 6. I had switched to using Ruby (from Perl) about 6 months earlier at that time, and I had a chance to talk to Larry about the changes in OO support that he wanted...

Ok, this is weird. I was using Internet Explorer at work (that’s not the weird part), and today I used it to browse to my blog. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that the new CSS look for my site was gone! The site was being rendered in the old-style CSS! I switched back to FireFox (mozilla) and sure enough, the new look was still...

Ok, this is weird. I was using Internet Explorer at work (that’s not the weird part), and today I used it to browse to my blog. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that the new CSS look for my site was gone! The site was being rendered in the old-style CSS! I switched back to FireFox (mozilla) and sure enough, the new look was still...

Rublog now supports MovableStyle CSS styles sheets....

Rublog now supports MovableStyle CSS styles sheets....