In the last couple of years, I became quite fond of Ruby. It was so refreshing to simply get things done without caring too much about typecasts or memory management. The magnificent expressiveness of the language, the ease of use of the…
Continue Reading…A while back I had a long weekend to kill and was in the mood for some just-for-fun hacking. The weather was predicted to be awful and I remembered that I always wanted to build a robot. Of course, I had built…
Continue Reading…In my article Ruboto: Ruby’s and Android’s First Born, I covered one way to use Ruby for mobile app development. In that article, we created a native Android app in JRuby that could run on Android’s Java Virtual Machine. This time, we will dip…
Continue Reading…The Android platform is Googles attempt to give the iPhone a run for its money. In the last year or two, it grew to be a worthy opponent. One reason for this is the fact that it has a lot of funky…
Continue Reading…When I started with Ruby about a year ago, I felt a little bit lost at first. With a strong Java background I simply wasn’t used to so much meta programming, mixins, and dynamic/duck typing. While learning a lot via pair programming…
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