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Entries Tagged as 'Ruby'

Automating the creation of WordPress Pages

November 11th, 2009 · View Comments · General, Ruby

I put together a list of OS/X processes in a spreadsheet and wrote a short script to turn that into HTML. My intention was to update the spreadsheet whenever I found new information and then automatically update the blog. My small script was only useful to create HTML to manually place on a [...]

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Compiling Ruby with MacRuby 0.5b1

October 8th, 2009 · View Comments · Mac, Ruby

MacRuby 0.5 beta 1 is out and can be downloaded from here.  The beta can only be used on Snow Leopard, which means its Intel-only.  They switched from using YARV as the internal engine to using LLVM.  The major side effect of this change is that Ruby code can now be compiled.
Compilation is still pretty [...]

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MacRuby 0.4

March 9th, 2009 · View Comments · Mac, Ruby

There’s one problem with this. Ruby’s interpreter and run-time have always been slow and single-threaded. For many reasons, the baroque language itself included, it has been difficult to create a fast interpreter. This hasn’t stopped Ruby from being useful. The incredible Rails framework runs on top of Ruby and is scalable. But that effort showed [...]

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Gravatars

March 2nd, 2009 · View Comments · Ruby, Web

It’s my particular conceit that I’ve been exposed to just about everything under the sun when it comes to computing. And I’m always disabused of this when I dig into an area I never have before.
I never took a deep interest in blogging until recently so I didn’t really know about Feed Burner, Google Webmaster [...]

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