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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Ruby'
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 [...]
New Geek Tool Weather Script
July 8th, 2009 · View Comments · Mac
I’ve significantly altered the Geek Tool weather script from a previous posting. I switched from using the Weather Underground to using the same weather source as the Apple widget – Accuweather. I got annoyed when the weather widget and my desktop were in disagreement. In addition, the new script is significantly more reliable.
If you’re upgrading [...]
Enterprise Architecture in a Web 2.0 World
April 11th, 2009 · View Comments · Architecture, Web
There’s something very curious to me. While standard thinking is that you need to use “enterprise quality” languages to scale to large loads, the reality is that big Web 2.0 sites scale much, much larger then most enterprise apps and use scripting languages to do it.
So does that mean that “enterprise quality” is a bunch [...]
Tags:Architecture·MySQL·PHP·Python·Ruby·SOAP·Web·Web 2.0·XML
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 [...]
Tags:Mac·MacRuby·Objective-C·OS/X·Ruby
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 [...]
