I stumbled onto Rice the other day. I like it. A lot.It's funny I came across this because I've been considering a rewrite of Ruby in C++. Not that I know C++ very well. I just think there are a lot of advantages to using C++. Functors, try/catch, the STL. Who knows what else?I think the main argument against implementing a language in C++ has...

I tried Izumi's GC patch tonight. I see about a 20% speed drop. Not worth it.In other news, I think we're dead in the water with MRI when it comes to supporting callbacks on MS Windows. Callbacks typically (always?) happen in their own native thread. In practice that means we can get away with one callback, but any more than that and the...

I tried Izumi's GC patch tonight. I see about a 20% speed drop. Not worth it.In other news, I think we're dead in the water with MRI when it comes to supporting callbacks on MS Windows. Callbacks typically (always?) happen in their own native thread. In practice that means we can get away with one callback, but any more than that and the...

I got my first Vista related bug report this week. Specifically, the Net::Ping::External class (part of the net-ping library) has a bug where it was returning false positives.The reason? For external pings I look for specific error messages like "host unreachable" or "100% packet loss". That works fine. So long as the output is in English...

I got my first Vista related bug report this week. Specifically, the Net::Ping::External class (part of the net-ping library) has a bug where it was returning false positives.The reason? For external pings I look for specific error messages like "host unreachable" or "100% packet loss". That works fine. So long as the output is in English...

Ruby is the worst programming language, except for all the others.

Ruby is the worst programming language, except for all the others.

One can only hope that there are better uses for Fibers, because Dave's example is not compelling. Otherwise, Fibers will be relegated to the status of Continuations - an interesting academic concept that's ignored in practice.

This Christmas I decided to help my dad solve a problem where his Windows XP desktop was taking over 30 minutes to boot. I kid you not. The culprit was, of course, Norton Antivirus. My dad has worked with computers a long time, so he had become loyal to Norton in the past. Unfortunately, his brand loyalty had blinded him to the fact that...

This Christmas I decided to help my dad solve a problem where his Windows XP desktop was taking over 30 minutes to boot. I kid you not. The culprit was, of course, Norton Antivirus. My dad has worked with computers a long time, so he had become loyal to Norton in the past. Unfortunately, his brand loyalty had blinded him to the fact that...

If you ever meet the people who designed the Windows event logging system, please slap them for me.Man, what a pain. We recently discovered (and fixed) an issue where it turns out that we must support ParameterMessageFile's. About 99% of the time you can skip handling them, since most event sources use one file, the EventMessageFile...

If you ever meet the people who designed the Windows event logging system, please slap them for me.Man, what a pain. We recently discovered (and fixed) an issue where it turns out that we must support ParameterMessageFile's. About 99% of the time you can skip handling them, since most event sources use one file, the EventMessageFile...

We (and I do mean *we*) finally got out win32-service this weekend. Man, what a pain. It was worth it though. We fixed some stuff and added a few new features as well. We got a really nice patch from Kevin Burge, too.I'm only sorry we couldn't make the Daemon class pure Ruby for this release. I thought about delaying the release yet again, but...

We (and I do mean *we*) finally got out win32-service this weekend. Man, what a pain. It was worth it though. We fixed some stuff and added a few new features as well. We got a really nice patch from Kevin Burge, too.I'm only sorry we couldn't make the Daemon class pure Ruby for this release. I thought about delaying the release yet again, but...

From the fusen-ruby description:"This program is sticky the easy memorandum for a desktop."All your sticky are belong to us!