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Dave Thomas is Definitely the Sammy Sosa of Programming

Just a few details I wanted to share about my favorite home run hitter…

Getting Code Ready for Ruby 1.9

I want to share some tips I learned converting code to run on Ruby 1.9…

Ghost Wheel Example

Showing the Ghost Wheel approach to the recently popular Treetop example…

I Enjoy the Regional Conferences

After spending the weekend at the Lone Star Rubyconf, I'm recommending others attend their regional conferences…

I Got Booed at the LSRC!

Find out how my speech angered the attendees on the first day of Lone Star Rubyconf…

Marcel at Play

I just say a terrific talk at this year's Lone Star Rubyconf…

Finding Serenity

These are some notes about the recent changes to this blog…

Erlang Message Passing

Let's take a look at something another programming language does well and see how we might bring at least some elements these features to Ruby…

The Ruby VM: Episode V

In this interview, Koichi takes us down the rabbit hole of Ruby optimizations. He gives us quite a few things to look forward to in future releases…

The Ruby VM: Episode IV

In this interview, Matz gives us the story behind the forthcoming m17n support for Ruby…