https://akos.ma/tags/ruby/Recent content in Ruby on akos.maHugo -- gohugo.ioenFri, 25 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0200https://akos.ma/blog/translating-the-formula-for-primes-to-cpp-with-ai/Fri, 25 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0200https://akos.ma/blog/translating-the-formula-for-primes-to-cpp-with-ai/Some of you might remember an article I published more or less a year ago, called &ldquo;Mathematical Curiosities&rdquo;. In that article I showed an indeed curious formula: the 1964 “Formula for Primes” by C. P. Willans.https://akos.ma/blog/mathematical-curiosities/Fri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0200https://akos.ma/blog/mathematical-curiosities/This post contains some interesting mathematical curiosities I&rsquo;ve recently learned about.https://akos.ma/blog/revisiting-ruby-on-rails/Fri, 20 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0200https://akos.ma/blog/revisiting-ruby-on-rails/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.https://akos.ma/blog/redmine/Fri, 07 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0200https://akos.ma/blog/redmine/I was surprised to discover recently that good old Redmine not only still exists in 2023, but it thrives in various unexpected ways.https://akos.ma/blog/yup-still-learning-a-new-programming-language-every-year/Fri, 24 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://akos.ma/blog/yup-still-learning-a-new-programming-language-every-year/I gave an update on this lifetime activity of mine in 2006, 2007, 2011, and 2013, and here we go for 2023.https://akos.ma/blog/containers-and-dll-hell/Fri, 11 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://akos.ma/blog/containers-and-dll-hell/Back in the 1990s, shared libraries were all the rage. Instead of having to ship a 20 MB <code>*.exe</code> file to your customer in various floppy disks, you could cut some code out, put it in a set of <code>*.dll</code> 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.https://akos.ma/blog/crystal-is-a-surprise/Fri, 15 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200https://akos.ma/blog/crystal-is-a-surprise/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.https://akos.ma/blog/fortune-apps/Fri, 20 May 2022 00:00:00 +0200https://akos.ma/blog/fortune-apps/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.https://akos.ma/blog/polyglot-conway/Fri, 05 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0100https://akos.ma/blog/polyglot-conway/My personal project during the pandemic was Conway, a project providing implementations of Conway&rsquo;s Game of Life in as many programming languages as possible.https://akos.ma/blog/the-developer-guide-to-migrate-across-galaxies/Fri, 28 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0200https://akos.ma/blog/the-developer-guide-to-migrate-across-galaxies/This is the presentation I gave at the second App Builders Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, April 25th, 2017.