YOU ARE INVITED TO HAVE TEA WITH THE QUEEN ON SUNDAY. PLEASE BRING YOUR VERY BEST MANNERS.
Even little girls who dream of lifting a pinkie with royalty need some education in etiquette, and Ruby is no exception. When she finds an elaborate invitation to tea on Sunday next, [...]
I started programming seriously roughly ten years ago. I was working in the call center of an ISP, and there was a need for a reseller tracking application. I was attending the local community college at the time, and had been indoctrinated into the world of computer programming trhough what amounted to vocational training in [...]
Part of what I’m doing is actually learning Rails more than I knew it before. I’ve been working on random test apps, but now I’m trying to build something for real and I decided to start from scratch. Blew everything away, happily compiling/installing on my Mac and then I run into issues.
Basically, I got this [...]
In light of the current global financial meltdown, Darryl Taft of eWeek has posted a great article: Can Ruby, Rails Make Developers Shine in a Downturn?
In the piece, Darryl asks whether “specialty coding skills will help developers ride out the financial crisis”—specifically, are Ruby on Rails developers better prepared to deal with financial uncertainty? Like [...]
How would you like to use your Ruby skills to make the world a better, healthier place?
Gyminee is the premier fitness social network for detailed tracking, online accountability, and motivation. We are built on top of Ruby on Rails, and we need another rockstar developer to join our team. The technology is fun, we [...]
Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications is an easy-to-follow, practical and fun guide to Ruby on Rails for beginners. It covers all you need to get up and running, from installing Ruby, Rails and MySQL to building and deploying a fully featured web application.
This book will show you how to install Ruby on [...]
REally funny ad…
I really enjoyed Akademy this year, and blagging a Nokia N810 right on the day of my birthday was one of the highlights of a great week. I’m very keen to port the QtRuby bindings to the N810 as it should make a nice development environment for quickly developing small free standing apps and Plasma [...]
Scott Petersen gave a talk at Mozilla where he showed off “C-compiled versions of Lua, Ruby, Perl, and Python all running on the web in secure Flash sandboxes”. There’s other goodies, including a Zelda mention, in the link above. Or see this previous post for more links on C and C++ via ActionScript 3.
I wonder [...]
It’s been some time since my last post, so several things pilled up since then I’d like to talk about. So first about Echo, One Canvas and Ruby.
We ought to keep up with latest technology and make the process of creating new Echo icons as easy/effective as possible. As already mentioned in the fedora-art-list there [...]
