A Studio just for Ruby

July 12 2006

About six months ago, I announced that I would be attending a Pragmatic Rails Studio in Chicago. Now, I’m not a hard core rails user and I am certainly no web designer. But we use Rails for a number of our internal sites and I wanted to get a little… read more

mkmf => mkrf

June 28 2006

If you’ve ever used a Ruby extension built in C, most likely you’ve been exposed to mkmf. You may not have realized it, but those nitfy extconf.rb files floating around in directories that magically create Makefiles use it. The Pickaxe briefly discusses mkmf and the online documentation on how to use… read more

Summer of Code Kicks Off

May 27 2006

Well, here we are at the beginning of another year of the Google Summer of Code. After a multi-week process of students applying and revising their applications, Google has narrowed down the total number of projects to roughly 630, meaning they’re supporting over $3 million in open source project development. RubyCentral… read more

The Case For Python

May 02 2006

Aaron Seigo, a noted developer for the KDE project, recently blogged about a case for python. The gist is that he feels that python is a suitable language for people to just get into (think VBScript). This lead to a couple of responses from other KDE developers on the merits of… read more