Ruby
Last night I attended the Northern Virginia Ruby Users Group (NovaRUG) meeting in Reston last night with Dave Thomas (PragDave) and Chad Fowler. It was a completely packed house and the temperatures were a bit hight in the room, but it was well worth the sweating to attend. Paul Barry presented first on Merb and gave a really good demonstration of some of the capabilities in comparison to Ruby on Rails. If you're not familiar with Merb, it is a lightweight Model View Controller framework written...
Tonight I will be heading to the Northern Virginia Ruby Users Group (NoVARUG) meeting tonight with Dave Thomas (PragDave) talking about metaprogramming in Ruby. Should be a great time and I'm sure it will be full tonight. For those interested in some introduction to metaprogramming in Ruby, here's a good link to help get you started. Metaprogramming in F#? One of the many things that has interested me in F# is that it was originally written as a language to write other languages. This of course leads...
The Northern Virginia Ruby Users Group (NoVARUG) will be holding their next meeting next week with a special speaker in Dave Thomas (PragDave). Dave is in town teaching Advanced Rails Studio in Reston and will be kind enough to come talk about the Ruby Object model and how it facilitates metaprogramming. The details are as follows: Subject: Dave Thomas - The Ruby Object Model and Metaprogramming Date: April 16th, 2008 - 7-9PM Location: FGM Inc 12021 Sunset Hills Road Suite 400 Reston, VA 20190 Hope...
As you may have seen from previous posts, I have been covering Lang.NET and some of the interesting things that came from it. I've always been interested in compilers, DSLs and such, and I hope you found them interesting as well. I covered it these posts here: Adventures in Compilers - Building on the DLR DSLs, Compilers and the Irony of it All Ruby.NET is dead, long live Ruby.NET Lang.NET and Rolling Your Own Anyhow, they have finally posted the videos from Lang.NET and are now available here for...
As I noted yesterday, Dr. Wayne Kelly, the leader of Ruby.NET project, attended the 2008 Lang.NET Symposium last week led a discussion of how he wrapped Ruby, a dynamic language, on top of the static CLI. Of note of course in that speech was how hard certain things are with Ruby due to the lack of a formal specification. Anyhow, fast forward to yesterday. Wayne announced in a post yesterday about the future of Ruby.NET. I encourage you to read the whole thing here. He writes: Ruby.NET started life...