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A Fine Time, Oh Yes! (1459 words)
Hey, what a fun year, you know?
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The Siphoning Splat (230 words)
I’m serious about this. The splat is such a wildly devious little asterisk.
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require_gem is Deprecated (51 words)
The require_gem command is gone. It’s just gem now. (RubyGems 0.9.0.8 and later.) -
Elizabeth's How to Think... With Ruby (136 words)
Okayyy. So, I really thought our free books were in decline. But what’s this?
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More Splatters of Hpricot (313 words)
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We Got Giftbombed (195 words)
ruby-talk:231165], a ornament of obfuscation by chris2.
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Ruby is Off CVS (114 words)
The new Subversion server is up for all the Ruby committers.
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Oh Yeah: Irb Applet (128 words)
You’re going to ask yourself, “What’s the point?” And, sure, go ahead.
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Quick Conkeror Prefs (151 words)
No more SwitchProxy extension for switching MouseHoles. Added to ~/.
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FreakyFreaky Now Resumes Its Usual Sandly Self (162 words)
I know it’s been out of sorts for the past month, but the big checkin is, in fact, IN.
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Junebug: A Nice Little Wiki, What Can I Say (101 words)
h many Ruby wiki scenesters have been made to feel sad and downtrodded by the lack of any recent news.
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Visitors Who Steal Ruby Off to New VMs (104 words)
m possible into something Squeak Smalltalk can load and run, and hey, it adds 3+4 and comes up with 7.
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Try Ruby for Opera (89 words)
It’s true! Try Ruby has nearly reached one year of age, having executed 5.
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PickPocket, a Marshal Ransack Hack (659 words)
Today’s hack is a Marshal hack, which is a highly common (but quite untapped)
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YARV is Merging (220 words)
Just following up on the Denver Accord: Koichi’s promise was good and he is wrapping up his
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That Django Book is Okay, Yeah? (147 words)
Friends, I think we all need to take note of the Django Book.
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Seaside to Calm the Continuations (126 words)
continuations – they drove a lot of the initial interest in the -
The SQLite3 Gem (_why's sensibilities repack) (57 words)
Here’s to making sqlite3-ruby a much better gem.
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Parse.y Remakes (148 words)
A few nice variations on Ruby’s yacc grammar have been emerging from the Grammarians.
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The Impending Camping Cramping (313 words)
YES I KNOW there has been some talk that CAMPING 1.6 (ONE DOT SIXER)
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New, Little Hpricot Pulps (114 words)
Element#css_path
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As Though the Whole Planet Was One Giant Image Composed of Millions and Millions of Objects (88 words)
So, this is already all over the place, but there’s no way I’m off the bandwagon on this -
Evan's Little Ruby Dune Buggy is in the Garage (75 words)
One surprising bit of news which came toppling out of RubyConf was Evan Phoenix’s retooling of
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Denver Accord (528 words)
Takahashi, Matz, Ko1, Urabe, Ogino and me I talked about a plan of the near future
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Nic.d Gets Punct (69 words)
Announcing Nic.d—for registering invalid domains in the underground. -
He Paid to Go and Type (62 words)
Rubyist, MINI motorist, agile saxophonist and bullet-pointilist Nick Sieger is my forecast for
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The Soda Languages (381 words)
Whoa, get ready to spend your whole afternoon tooling around with a small pile of little languages
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Running Pugs Across Your Browser (106 words)
The Pugs team (more specifically: Wim Vanderbauwhede) has an online REPL up for trying out Perl 6! -
Stop-Motion Hacking and a Bit of Celebratory Flag Waving (63 words)
Oh, yes, this is classic. From Palmer, his 24-hour code-a-thon on time lapse. -
Yay, Matz is on the Cusp of Unveiling Ruby's Unicode Support! (108 words)
functionality.
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Manfred Smacks Open a Camping Piñata (75 words)
Stuff like: Cushion, a Camping app for blogging movies and stuff; his campcast titled Camping Demo -
5.gets BradPauly (632 words)
This frog skin found in a used book is served up by Mongrel! I can’t think of a better payload.
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String#chars Blessed by Rails Papacy as Fingertips Work to Dip Ruby's Toes in the UTF-8 Waters (100 words)
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Ferret Creator on Judo and Text Indexing (170 words)
Okay, here we go. Pat Eyler has a really long interview with Dave Balmain.
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Evan's Camping Slides (118 words)
The very campsmart and railswise Evan Weaver has put up his Camping slides from a Philly gathering.
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A Lambda Camcorder (61 words)
Beware magic-haters, a hack from Mike Williams, wherein you do a bunch of method calls on an -
Ripping Up Wikipedia, Subjugating It (262 words)
There’s an article that covers taking apart Wikipedia pages with Hpricot on the blog of Shane
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Camping is Still Your 4k Pinkyframework! (878 words)
See, still just 3909 bytes! And, yet, a sizeworthy CHANGELOG!
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These Yelps and Squeals are Totally Valid (53 words)
Discovered by Jay Phillips, some syntactically correct interrobangling:
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Hack This Sign On a Remote Wood Floor (118 words)
Hey, whoa, Aaron Patterson’s got a great hack! -
(String < Enumerable).nil? (134 words)
So, it sounds like the 1.
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Open Up Your Wiki and We'll Finish it For You (274 words)
I’m hoping the Freaky Freaky Sandbox will avail me of having to finish anything ever again.
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Hoodwink.d Nameplates & Rollups (189 words)
To the Hoodwink.rs: Please deinstall then reinstall.
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The Addresses to My Pursuits (113 words)
Okay, folks, my code repository is finally all dressed up. -
The Ruby-GDB Arms Race Now At a Standoff (261 words)
Generous Mauricio gives:
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The Least Surprised #14: So... (9 words)
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Want to Help Translate the Ruby Site? (153 words)
Hey, a great thing about the new Ruby site is that its backend will let us offer accounts for -
Matz, the Khaki Pugilist (210 words)
The latest issue of Rubima is out (alas, no YARV Maniacs dept!)
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Sandbox Has a New Patch (286 words)
What was a two-line patch has now become rather significant.
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:symbol.is_a? String (57 words)
gt;> :symbol.is_a?
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No Battles for Matz (32 words)
matz: That indicates that he trusts himself, and not me (Ruby). And I think he’s right. -
Airborne Man Chiseled from Ruby to Speak Next Week (98 words)
after the presentation and Polypus flew up on his jetpack to announce that he was speaking next week.
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Trimming Off the Internet (205 words)
Anyone wondering about MouseHole 2? Rany Keddo has posted some instructions for winding it up.
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The Sandbox is Loading Gems and Acting Less Freaky (198 words)
I really hoped that 1.8.
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The New Ruby-Lang (161 words)
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The Principle of Hard Not to Understand (126 words)
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It's Just Not Right Without the Chuckles of Passersby (75 words)
he guidology in the wake of the rumoured “I like Django” BDFL announcement rather amusing.
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Marshalling Ruby 2.0 Codes (200 words)
We’re all eager to see YARV spout real live bytecode, but ko1 has a fun sort of inbetween
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Ruby 1.8.5 is Real Close, Here's Preview 4. (128 words)
Today Matz announced 1.8.5-preview 4.
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Camping Gets J'd, Placing It at the Very Epicenter of Hate! (208 words)
Oh, this is wise. So, Camping already had two INCREDIBLY GOOD reasons for hating it.
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Wares About (141 words)
mfp: The wmii devels do not want to link against xft (it is deemed a piece of crap, just like 99.
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How to Follow Cardinal Around These Days (31 words)
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Autorequire is Basically Gone, Everyone (183 words)
I’ve had a handful of e-mail about the Hpricot gem not working.
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Hpricot the OhFourth (250 words)
Well, here’s a new release of Hpricot: 0.4. This I didn’t expect.
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I Got Lighptttttp for My Own 37Cymbals (87 words)
Geoffrey: I’m having problems with deploding capastrami.
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Everyone is Here in the Future 2 (168 words)
Here’s more junkmation toon disaster footage from The Cups!
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Handing Out IRB Like It's Sardines (300 words)
I’m sort of obsessed with getting people into a Ruby prompt without any installation.
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Sandbox's Init and Import (276 words)
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Those Fortunate Portlanders 2 (83 words)
O’Reilly Radar says there’s also a tour of Free Geek on Friday.
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Nikolai's UTF-8 Lib is All Ready (147 words)
str.reverse.
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Hpricot and Sandbox for Win32 (171 words)
Mauricio checked in some Rakefiles for cross-compiling to win32, so I’ve got some win32 gems -
The Standard (Freaky, But Not FreakyFreaky) Sandbox (221 words)
Before I get into how to lock down the sandbox, let’s talk about what kinds of nifty things you
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FrkyFrkyBox'n ][ (234 words)
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In the End Times: Locusts, Plagues, and A Scourge of Angle Brackets (43 words)
Anselm Garbe defending 10kloc. -
The Thrilling Freaky-Freaky Sandbox Hack!! (311 words)
Holy cats, I’m proud to offer you this sensational hack today.
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Monkeypytching? (120 words)
So now some Pythonistas want monkeypatching! Will the snakes recoil? -
Mucking With Unicode for 1.8 (307 words)
The idea here with this little project is to enhance the strings in Ruby 1.8 to support encodings.
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The Camping Server (258 words)
Lately, I’ve been writing little Camping apps that I can just drop in a directory and they get
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Uh Oh, Someone Saw the Smoke (101 words)
amework in a little file, provided of course you download and install several acres of infrastructure. -
Methods That Self-Destruct (198 words)
Expiring a method. And let’s keep meta out of this.
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The Least Surprised in "UnboundMyth'd" (193 words)
Episode 3 of this cartoon set, which was shown at RailsConf 2006. You want to see the rest?
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p^P is Pastie Straight from Vim (60 words)
Sensational: You just select the text you want in vim, then hit p^P and (if you’ve got xclip
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Mail Plugin for Ruby-Wmii (148 words)
Using Mauricio’s ruby-wmii?
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rb2js (48 words)
Holy smokes: rb2js! A very clever hack ~200 lines. -
Okay, Give Hpricot 0.2 a Go (303 words)
This time I’m giving a balloon out which can be used for quick testing.
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Hpricot 0.1 (91 words)
gem install hpricot --source code.whytheluckystiff.
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The Early Inhabitants of Balloon (66 words)
Install a script for launching balloons.
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Balloon (90 words)
Create new scripts from the home page.
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Fox Preying on Bacon in Glasgow? Curious! (80 words)
A red fox eating bacon? Spotted by Gavin Montague in Scotland. AND THERE IS AN ONION.
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Try Ruby in Second Life (94 words)
Oh, here we go. Teach your avatar Ruby and double the population of Rubyists at once.
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Counting At The Cloak 'N' Bind (342 words)
So Method#to_proc is basically totally bankrupt.
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Really? So Few? (61 words)
D. A. Black is concerned. Not enough RubyConf proposals. And yet, anyone can. -
Go DHH Yourself (567 words)
This weekend was RailsConf 2006. So many earnest talks, so much going on.
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Here's Ruby 1.8.5 Preview 1 (157 words)
Hear this: Ruby 1.8.5-preview1 is out.
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Speeding Up Builder 2.0 (206 words)
This week I’m trying to break the skids off of Markaby.
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I'm Trying To Understand This Formation (38 words)
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A Few Wmii-3 Hacks (637 words)
ybe even more so amongst Rubyists, which would often kill for a Mac — their third or fourth one)
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Nearing RubyGems 0.9.0 (79 words)
Hobbyists and testers, come on:
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Symbol#to_proc Exonerated (167 words)
I guess RubyKaigi2006 is proving to be a nice hackathon, cause Ruby CVS is suddenly checkins aplenty. -
Day One of RubyKaigi2006 (471 words)
are proud to report RubyKaigi20061 at Tokyo, which is the first conference dedicated to Ruby in Japan.
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Will The Real Tim Toady Please Stand Up Already?? (47 words)
Frederick Lundh on this Google-sponsored Python lib:
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Mosquito & Decamp (70 words)
Mosquito, a little testing setup for Camping.
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Google Commissions Ten Ruby Libs (226 words)
Hey, the announced list of ten libraries (from 84 proposed)
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"Camping," Said the Blogs (170 words)
Tim Bray: I should have a look at camping.
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Less method_missing in Markaby (214 words)
gt;> salect :onclick => 'javascript:alert("GIMMICK!")
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Markaby's Magic-Permeation Branch (267 words)
So, Markaby is so magical it hurts, right?
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Zed Goes Off About Mongrel (232 words)
Hey, alright.
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Stick it in Your ~/.irbrc: MethodFinder (132 words)
A MethodFinder hack: -
DRb Renaissance (103 words)
Wow, there’s really been a resurgence of DRb use lately. Which is great. -
If You're Too Small For a Normal Doorway (30 words)
svn co http://code.whytheluckystiff.
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Mongrel 0.3.13 with Large File Uploads, Conditional HTTP, Upload Progress Patch (All Are Good Things) (87 words)
Help us test out Mongrel 0.3.13 (the pre-release of Mongrel 0.
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Fictohedron: Writing Team Novels with the Help of a Spam Filter (723 words)
You feed a pile of books through a spam filter. Half are books you favor.
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EigenCharges (253 words)
A new sleight of syntax for ya: -
Slow Strummers Need Not Apply (147 words)
Oh, okay, that’s where I was.
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Park Place Does Torrents, It's Called 0.7 (147 words)
gem install parkplace --source code.whytheluckystiff.
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HsSyck from Audrey Tang (157 words)
So, YAML support for Haskell. Right here.
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High Performance WEBrick on BSD (79 words)
Here’s a great hack by Eric Hodel: High Performance WEBrick (at the very bottom.) -
Speeding Up Net::HTTP, OpenURI or Any Other TCPSocket Offspring (116 words)
Only if you’re doing lots of requests amongst threads and you notice that the opening of the
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Underground Anew (7 words)
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Park Place is Sure Glossy in Trunk (116 words)
From the latest checkin:
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A Camper Launches TimeCert (102 words)
Pelle Braendgaard just opened his new service: TimeCert. Well well.
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YaySON (210 words)
Wow, the YAML-Core list is aflame with a conquest to get JSON to become a subset of YAML.
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Stowing Yer Libraries Off in the Cut-n-Paste (156 words)
Starting with what we’ve seen before.
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If You Want to Tell Your Friend About Camping But Unfortunately His Headphones Are Too Loud (802 words)
st changes have been previously described, many minor bugfixes, large file downloading and uploading.
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Park Place, the S3 Clone You've Been Always Almost Wanting to Save Fifteen Cents With! (453 words)
Yes yeah, that’s right. Put that dime away and put especially that clunky nickel away.
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How You Fake a Gem Server (150 words)
It’s odd that RubyGems doesn’t serve its own docs. See gem_server for yourself.
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Oh Nice, Mongrel Gets Real Money (166 words)
You guys say you love Ruby, but are you really giving Ruby the elaborate gifts of cash it longs for? -
Everyone is Here in the Future (174 words)
Oh the messy and contorted fun the Cups had with this one.
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That Broken Place Called RedHanded (175 words)
Wow, RedHanded comments have had something of a sour belly lately, haven’t they?
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Ruby Classes as Directories, Methods as Files (115 words)
A fantastic hack by Shinichiro H! -
A Bit on Francis Hwang's Team Fiction: Ten-Sided (163 words)
Yeah, so, Francis has this great project he’s started which plugs a bunch of writers together
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Ruby Hacking Guide Translation Project Started (238 words)
Ruby Hacking Guide Translation Project has been started
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From the Orthley Set (73 words)
I’ve taken a few shots from the Orthley Kids set, used as part of the show on Tuesday at SXSW.
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Smircer, Clone of the Little Tcl IRC Client (127 words)
I saw the link floating around for the IRC client written in 38 lines of Tcl and I just wondered.
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For Now, Wink Turns into Actual Fully Closed (Sad) Eyelid (25 words)
Hoodwink’d is closed presently.
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Wonder of the When-Be-Splat (157 words)
Well, okay, yes, we already know Ruby is expressive. -
What's in Camping 1.4? (306 words)
Okay, you can try out Camping 1.3.69 from gems. Camping is a microframework. -
YARV No Longer an Acronym for "You Acknowledge the Reek of Vapors" (191 words)
Good thing gabriele renzi is out there, because I’ve been off my shoe this week.
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People Piling in the Very Last Car (127 words)
The caboo.se blog has kept a lot of activity happening, staffed with a pile of Railsers who’ve
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Mauricio Skips Recursion With YARV's Hidden Levels! (123 words)
Mauricio’s found some CFLAGS in YARV which will power-up the opcodes to give Ruby a highly
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Manners for IRB (57 words)
Okay, well, yesterday’s discussion went pretty positively, so you can throw this file in as
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Ideas for Ruby 2 Manners (307 words)
If I could clean up the little quacks that Ruby gives here and there. -
Another 150 RailsConf Seats (37 words)
Maybe these will be gone by the time I actually finish this message, but a new wing has been added to -
YARV Merged Matz (175 words)
Koichi Sasada has requested I print the following. He is the scribe.)
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Showing Perfect Time [Perfect Plus Edition] (131 words)
Perfect has fallen out of favor. Mike West has gone beyond and I’m bailing as well.
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Me & the Thirsty Cups at SXSW in March, Then RailsConf in June (189 words)
sobs of clapter to Hugh Forrest, Justin Bankston and also Tom Lockney (who told them fables of FOSCON) -
Franchise.d (67 words)
gem install camping markaby --source code.whytheluckystiff.
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RubySpaMeeting2006 (194 words)
We have, right now, an over-night offsite meeting at a spa in Matsue, where Matz lives.
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Markaby 0.3 (128 words)
Now that Markaby’s had some life experiences, Tim and I have sucker-punched it a bit here and
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Ezra's Where Plugin is Out (95 words)
Okay, well, KLAAABOOM, more Ruby. For spelling out queries. Lotsa operator mischief.
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Day Camp at Mongrel National Park (207 words)
Zed and I worked over the weekend on smoothing out the divide between Camping (the 4k web framework)
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Twisted, Piping Forum, Goes by the Name of Fugi (196 words)
You can say you invented tumblelogging way back in the paleolithic era all you want, Chris Neukirchen
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ary / 3 (111 words)
Sometimes I wish Array.partition could split into more than halves.
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[EVALUATION] - E06 - RDOC REFRAMING (182 words)
So, ruby-doc has a new layout which is sensational. -
Injecting a Hash Backwards and the Merge Block (238 words)
Here’s a fun snippet cooked up for the Camping 1.
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Mongrel's Going to Kill Webrick, Give It a Month (187 words)
You’ve got to see for yourself this web server Zed Shaw is working on.
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Camping is a Microframework (1754 words)
First, as a mural. For friends here who like to pick at the weave.
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UTF-8 Plugin for Rails, Fine for Ruby 1.8 (174 words)
Here’s the story thus far. Ruby has no Unicode support in 1.8 (except for Regexps)
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Showing Perfect Time (782 words)
What timezone do your site’s timestamps show? Or have you opted to just say three months ago?
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Markaby for Rails (560 words)
You know that WebPage code I’ve been playing with lately?
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Trust Metrics Mixin #1: PageRank (816 words)
Here’s today’s challenge.
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The Chore of Winking is Heavily Diminished! (147 words)
Ah, the helping hands of the neitherworld. Hoodwink’d 1.8 has been tested with mad abandon.
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Revisiting the File-Sharing Paragraph (503 words)
RedHanded is just over a year old, designed as an exercise to help me flesh out some better code -
Language Hopping with YAML (247 words)
So far, 2006 is shaping up to be a great year for YAML, due to recent work at a Chupei hackathon to
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The Slice Matcher (132 words)
String#[] and slice both hand you back matches, right?
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Son of WebPage (168 words)
Okay, once again, the idea here is to make HTML easily expressible for beginnies during a tutorial. -
Interesting: Try Python is Coming Along (254 words)
Other adventurous folks taming snakes are letting us tease those snakes in the open jungle!
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The Least Surprised #10: CashBag.untaint (10 words)
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Heh, Mmmnn, Perl People (57 words)
From the Jifty pages: -
Oh, Hey, Learn to Program is Really Out! (247 words)
Well, Chris Pine’s book is for sale, you can even get the PDF within seconds from the praggies.
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Easy Web Making (184 words)
So, I’ve been working on distilling an HTML maker library for beginners.
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