On Ruby

I need to wish the Ruport project a belated “happy birthday”. I turns out that they turned two yesterday, Gregory Brown made the announcem...

The other day, Thomas Enebo and the JRuby gang cut a 1.0.1 release of JRuby and I finally got around to benchmarking it against my LogWatch...

My son has gotten into LEGO Mindstorms NXT this year (thanks to a friends kind Christmas gift). Since he’s always trying to figure ...

I put together a mini-interview with Mauricio Fernandez about his new Ruby/OCaml bridge, rocaml. You can read most of it over at Linux Jou...

I’m a day late on this one, but the JRuby team cut their 1.0 release yesterday. This release has targeted 1.8 compatibility, and they’ve d...