similar to: RSpec poll

MountainWest RubyConf 2008 is scheduled for March 28 and 29, 2008. It will be in Salt Lake City, at the same great venue we had last year, and it is again our intent to record and make available all the talks under a Creative Commons, Share-Alike license -- you can see last year''s talks here: http://mtnwestrubyconf2007.confreaks.com/ If you''ve been working on a problem

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8993 If you''ve got feedback, requests for coverage, etc. please let me know. I''ll try to respond in an upcoming column. -- thanks, -pate ------------------------- http://on-ruby.blogspot.com

Manning is running a contest: If you make the winning entry, you''ll win a $100 Manning Gift Certificate (hey, that''d be two copies of David''s awesome Ruby for Rails). the contest is to complete the phrase: Ruby is to Rails as ___________ is to __________________ The contest is at: http://www.manning.com/black/contest.php -- thanks, -pate

Hi all, my family and I are taking a quick sprint through Europe from Aug 3-11. I''d be interested in meeting local Rubyists while we''re there. My schedule is going to look like this: 3-6 London 7 Berlin 8-9 Heidelberg 10-11 Frankfurt Feel free to drop me an email if you''re interested in meeting for a lunch or something. -- thanks, -pate

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Christian Gross, the author of AJAX and Best Practices, runs a blog at http://www.devspace.com/ and has started a poll asking which language he should port his AJAX patterns to next. (They are currently available for Java and .Net). If anyone''s interested in seeing Ruby up next, you might head over to the blog and cast your vote. -- thanks, -pate -------------------------

DTrace folks, I''m pleased to introduce a potential new DTrace-sponsored project: the Erlang DTrace provider. To be good OpenSolaris citizens, we want to put the formation of this officially sponsored project to a vote -- as outlined in the OpenSolaris Constitution -- so here are the details for the new Project, as prepared by the Project Team: Name : Erlang DTrace Integration

If you buy the MEAP (Manning''s version of Beta Books), you can now get the first four chapters of David Black book (that''s nearly 25%!). So far, I''ve been really pleased with it. I just grabbed chapter four, and I''ll be reading it soon. Get more information (or buy a copy) at: http://manning.com/books/black -- thanks, -pate -------------------------

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Matt Giuca <mattgiuca at gmail.com> wrote: > It seems like your language is very high level indeed (it almost sounds > dynamic). If you can pass arbitrary messages without needing to statically > know the type of anything, and pass data transparently from one machine to > another. It is in no way dynamic, everything is compiled down. All Actors

This is a general invite to any/all Railers in the Seattle area who want to get together for beer/food. Nothing formal, just a "get to know ya" gathering. Details: Thursday, Oct 13 (next week), 7pm Bellevue Red Robin - *http://tinyurl.com/d678c* -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ D''Andrew "Dave" Thompson http://dathompson.blogspot.com

A short entry, but good words about Rails. http://ablog.apress.com/?p=842 -- thanks, -pate -------------------------

Here is the list of Ruby related projects accepted for GSoC. It includes two very similar projects (seemingly the same project, really, but I''m not saying anything ;) ) using RSpec to build a spec suite for implementations of the Ruby language: http://code.google.com/soc/ruby/about.html I''m, personally, very excited about the implications of this. Thanks to all of you who use,

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How can I get good at soccer in a short time period? I'm 15 years old and I'm going to be a sophomore. I'm thinking of trying out for the soccer team. I'm not trying to get on varsity or junior varsity, but I don't want to look like an idiot on the field. I just want to know how to get better at soccer over this summer. I have a soccer goal in my backyard. Just some passing

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One of the things that I''m most excited to have as part of the 2007 MountainWest RubyConf is the second Alternative Ruby Implementors'' Summit and Panel -- I wrote a bit more about it here: http://on-ruby.blogspot.com/2007/01/mountainwest-rubyconf-implementors.html The rest of the speakers and talks are listed here: http://mtnwestruby.org/speakers/ If you''re interested

<earlier, David Rankin wrote to no avail:> Mates, I have been watching a developing problem over the past few weeks. Most likely a M$ patch to XP that has caused problems. What happens is that XP clients try to open the standard "File" -> "Open" dialog (like in word, or whatever) and the file open dialog hangs and stops responding for 15 seconds or so. I have

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On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Jonathan D. Turner <jonathan.d.turner at gmail.com> wrote: > I saw this was mentioned briefly last year, but there seemed to be > some confusion as to what coroutines entailed and the thread died out. >  This technique has an unfortunate number of names, but it does get a > lot of use, including popular languages like Ruby. > > I'm

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