Windy City Rails 2011
Saturday, September 17, 2011 I suppose I’ve been too busy to write lately about several events, including Windy City Rails This will have to be based mostly on my notes, so it might be a little bit...
View ArticleIntro to Ruby at Fox Valley Computing Professionals
Ruby is a dynamic, object-oriented programming language with lots of cool stuff. It has attracted a community of creative, fun-loving, passionate people, who have generated a great quantity of...
View ArticleA Delegate Matter
From time to time I hear rallying cries to use the Ruby standard library instead of building things from scratch. One piece I’ve been experimenting with is delegation. What I’ve learned is that...
View ArticleI Spilled Queue All Over Myself
My program has a data import process, which will need to get refreshed from time to time. I started out focusing on the code. Tests ran things for a long time. I prepared fairly high level operations,...
View ArticleOn the Inception of the Ruby Object System, at ChicagoRuby
Class, superclass, metaclass, singleton class, eigenclass, class <<self, class Class, Class.new. We all know that Ruby is an object oriented language, and specifically it is a class based...
View ArticleOn the Inception of the Ruby Object System, at Chicago Code Camp
Class, superclass, metaclass, singleton class, eigenclass, class <<self, class Class, Class.new. We all know that Ruby is an object oriented language, and specifically it is a class based...
View ArticleOn the Inception of the Ruby Object System, at Chicago Software Craftsmanship
Class, superclass, metaclass, singleton class, eigenclass, class <<self, class Class, Class.new. We all know that Ruby is an object oriented language, and specifically it is a class based...
View ArticleIntro to Ruby at Elgin Technology Center
Ruby is a dynamic, object-oriented programming language with lots of cool stuff. It has attracted a community of creative, fun-loving, passionate people, who have generated a great quantity of...
View ArticleJump to Errors in Ruby Koans with VIM
I attended a Ruby Koans hack night the other day. Since I already know most of Ruby, I decided to see if I could get VIM’s make quickfix support running on the koans – the program prints a file and...
View ArticleNational Day of Calendar Hacking
I went solo for National Day of Civic Hacking. I attempted to run an unofficial event at the Elgin Technology Center but I put off the marketing and partnerships too long. Summer seems to be tough for...
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