We all know Yukihiro Matsumoto invented Ruby, but how many of the other people behind Ruby can you name? Judging from this photo taken just a few weeks ago at RubyKaigi 2013, the Ruby 2.0 release was a real team effort, with…
Continue Reading…Avdi Grimm – A Happy Hacker 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…
Continue Reading…David Brady – Learning and Laughing Every week a group of Ruby Enthusiasts get together in a Virtual Roundtable and explore/discuss/argue some a spect of the Ruby language or the Ruby community. They allow the rest of us to listen in on…
Continue Reading…An Earl of the RubyMotion Community explains Sugarcube Ruby lends itself well to the creation of Domain Specific Languages (DSL). If you are approaching iOS development for the first time, you will likely have one of these consistent reactions based on your…
Continue Reading…When it comes to web development, Sinatra is amazingly flexible. Unlike Rails, it isn’t opinionated in the slightest and basically lets you make all the design decisions. It does have some conventions, such as automatically looking for view templates in the ‘views’…
Continue Reading…Xavier won the Ruby Hero award in 2010 Xavier Noria (pronounced “sha – vee – aay” in Catalan) is very well known in the Ruby community. A self-employed Ruby developer from Barcelona, he’s also a member of the Rails core team and…
Continue Reading…I’d heard second hand for a long time that Mark Bates was a great public speaker, but it wasn’t until the March meeting of Boston.rb that I had a chance to find out for myself. He gave a great presentation called Testing…
Continue Reading…A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Ruby Heroes. I thought I would write a post about my Ruby Hero – Konstantin Haase. He is one of the busiest people I know in the Ruby community- his output is amazing –…
Continue Reading…Author of the popular Code Safari series, Xavier Shay, had some time to answer a few interview questions before setting of for San Francisco.
Continue Reading…Given that Dan once ran RubySource and I’d already put a face to the name at one RORO meeting a couple of weeks earlier, it was stellar to actually get to know him better over the weekend. Additionally, I felt the title of Unplugged was justified, as he was playing acoustic guitar through the weekend. He’s as friendly as he is tall, which is taller than average, so he was happy to answer some questions for us!
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