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October 22, 2006
Revenge of the Rubyist
Zed Shaw (author of the well-know Ruby tools Mongrel, liteweight web server and the Rfuzz fuzzifying HTTP client used in Web testing): One thing I'm currently working on is called Utu. It's not a Ruby project. It's a networking protocol.
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Posted by Jack Woehr at 05:16 AM Permalink
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Railing against Rails
Ben Bleything (Portland, Oregon): This is my first RubyConf. I've been a Ruby programmer for about a year and a half.
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Posted by Jack Woehr at 04:45 AM Permalink
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October 21, 2006
Yukihiro "matz" Matsumoto
Matz invented Ruby. The name came first, as Masayoshi Takahashi told us this morning. "Has to be a gem," an associated advised Matz. "Why?" "Because of 'Perl'," was the answer. I hadn't been able to help noticing the pride Mr. Takahashi had expressed in the fact that Ruby is the first significant and widely accepted programming language to arise in Japan.
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Posted by Jack Woehr at 02:27 AM Permalink
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Who Attends the RubyConf?
Mike Howard is a veteran of programming, weighing in at 40 years in the trade, still active, still questing. I asked Mike what brought him to RubyConf 2006?
Mike Howard: I've been looking for 8-10 years for a way to build web applications that is efficient. The first thing I tried was a bunch of m4 macros and C macros that translated stuff. Every time I see a web framework I try it. That got me into Ruby. I've become really interested.
For these past ten years, I've been a consultant, doing a broad range of things, device drivers, applications, system administration ...
I'm trying to narrow my focus to something I can manage a little bit better, to stay the lone wolf, to keep from going insane. The breadth of what you have to know and the speed at which you have to learn new information pretty much follows Moore's Law. It's impossible to keep up, especially if you cover too broad a spectrum.
I think of it in terms of efficiency. I started out programming in Fortran. I eventually found C and Pascal. About 5 or 6 years ago I discovered Python and started doing everything I could in Python and PHP.
Ruby is a step above that. I've come to appreciate just how efficient and concise the Ruby syntax is and how much easier it is to solve problems in Ruby than it is in other languages. Just as a guess, there are probably two orders of magnitude of ease in Ruby compared to C, in terms of the code you have to write. I haven't measured it.
Ruby is readable. I don't write in languages that aren't readable. I have code that I wrote close to 20 years ago that's still running and the people that I wrote it for still know where I am. I may have to fix it someday.
Posted by Jack Woehr at 01:31 AM Permalink
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October 20, 2006
Riding the Rails to Denver: Day 1
Denver is beautiful in the fall. The sky is clear, it's 61 F., and from behind the stark and rugged Rocky Mountains the clouds bringing this weekend's projected snow are looming like bread rising out of the bowl.
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Posted by Jack Woehr at 02:40 PM Permalink
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October 18, 2006
RubyConf 2006 - Introducing Jack Woehr
As of this date, we're handing over the reins of our Ruby Show Blog to Jack Woehr: computer scientist, programmer (contributor to the Ant project, etc.), long-time Dr. Dobb's contributor, and general Renaissance type whose interests run the gamut from goose-keeping to arranging for the Hayden Duet-layout concertina.
Jack will be reporting from RubyConf 2006 in Denver, October 20-22.
Posted by John Jainschigg at 08:58 PM Permalink
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June 24, 2006
RailsConf 2006 Report 8 – 9:30 PM CDT - FINAL REPORT
This report ends my coverage of RailsConf 2006 Chicago, closing with comments on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson's Saturday evening keynote to RailsConf attendees.
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NEWSFLASH
Chad Fowler just announced that RailsConf will be flying with the O'Reilly banner on May 17-20, 2007 at Oregon Convention Center in Portland.
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RailsConf 2006 Report 7 – 2:30 PM CDT
It's another beautiful summer day in Chicago as the Dr. Dobb's Journal coverage of RailsConf 2006 Chicago continues.
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RailsConf 2006 Report 6 – 11:15 AM CDT
RailsConf attendees hit the ground running the first half of the morning with several technical sessions and a series of real-world Rails use case presentations.
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