The Newest Rogue Every week a group of Ruby Enthusiasts get together in a Virtual Roundtable and explore/discuss/argue some aspect of the Ruby language or the Ruby community. They allow the rest of us to listen in on their discussion by way…
Continue Reading…This is the second part of a two-part interview with Charles Max Wood, the founder of the Ruby Rogues podcast. How was ‘The Gang’ formed? Thom: So I bet that will answer my next questions, which is how you assembled this group…
Continue Reading…The Lead Rogue Every week a group of Ruby Enthusiasts get together in a Virtual Roundtable and explore/discuss/argue some aspect of the Ruby language or the Ruby community. They allow the rest of us to listen in on their discussion by way…
Continue Reading…Yesterday I posted the first half of my interview with Laurent Sansonetti about RubyMotion, an implementation of Ruby that targets Apple’s iOS mobile platform. If you’re not very familiar with RubyMotion be sure to read that first. We had a chance to…
Continue Reading…It was only last April when Laurent Sansonetti captured the imagination of the entire Ruby community with RubyMotion. For the first time Ruby developers were able to write apps directly for the iOS mobile platform using the language we all know and…
Continue Reading…Jim Weirich is Chief Scientist at Neo I’ve been familiar with Jim Weirich’s name for a while; among other things he wrote the “rake” tool which most of us use on a daily basis. Then I was lucky enough to see Jim…
Continue Reading…I first came across Narihiro Nakamura’s name while researching an article about garbage collection I wrote back in March. He had just committed a large code change to the upcoming MRI Ruby 2.0 release enabling a new garbage collection technique called “bitmap…
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