Tag "ruby"

I’ve blogged about Ruby on Rails quite a few times in the past 18 years. I’ve delivered lots of Rails apps, I’ve used it for my own company, and I have been a historic fan of Rails against all odds and against all opinions.

I was surprised to discover recently that good old Redmine not only still exists in 2022, but it thrives in various unexpected ways.

I gave an update on this lifetime activity of mine in 2006, 2007, 2011, and 2013, and here we go for 2023.

Back in the 1990s, shared libraries were all the rage. Instead of having to ship a 20 MB *.exe file to your customer in various floppy disks, you could cut some code out, put it in a set of *.dll files, and reuse that code across all your products. Every vendor would then install lots of DLL files in your system, and they would be reused by other apps from the same vendor.

I blogged about Dart a few weeks ago, and I said it was refreshingly boring. I am probably late to the party, but I discovered Crystal recently, and it is not only boring but also surprising in many delicious ways.

As part of my work in VSHN, I lately prepared a set of demo applications ready to be containerized and deployed in our new product APPUiO Cloud.

My personal project during the pandemic was Conway, a project providing implementations of Conway’s Game of Life in as many programming languages as possible.

This is the presentation I gave at the second App Builders Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, April 25th, 2017.

Quick update about my “one language per year” lifelong initiative:

Here’s an update of the current status of my “one language per year” lifelong initiative:

I’ve just uploaded a new project on Github called delicious_wp: it’s a small Ruby script that simply fetches the items stored in del.

It’s fun to find out how to tackle the same task in different programming languages; in this case, it’s all about doing HTTP requests over a network: fortunately, there are networking libraries in virtually all major programming languages.

There’s an interesting discussion going on these days on Ruby blogs about, basically, how to avoid one of the most common, annoying, easy-to-create bugs in any programming language: calling a method on a null reference (or pointer, depending on your language).

Every time I talk with people about Ruby on Rails in Switzerland, I almost always get the same comments, no matter what is the background of the person I’m talking to:

It feels soooooo good to :) Let me introduce you to Parking Friend.

There are basically 5 languages that I really like. For several reasons.

Well, you’re pretty much on your own for that :)

preparate unos mates, imprimi este mail y sentate con tiempo delante de la compu.

I have been working as a software developer since 1996, and as such I’ve used a variety of different languages, both compiled and interpreted.

Somewhere I read that it was a good thing to learn at least one new programming language every year; I think I have kept up that trend since 1992:

Apple has published an article about Ruby on Rails in the Developer Connection website!

Ruby on Rails goes 1.0; read the announcement!

After having received a comment from Steven Ross I saw in his website a reference to RadRails.

Great day; my first full Ruby on Rails application is up and running in production environment.

Next week I will be in Belgium working with the Thales team in Brussels, building a new software solution (for a customer of the public sector that I cannot disclose here) using the following technologies:

Estuve probando un nuevo lenguaje de programacion que no conocia: Ruby.