For parsing xml in one of my projects, i started surfing then i tried with hpricot.There are lots of parsers, but i...

Earlier today… our team at Planet Argon launched a new site for the Ruby on Rails community. If you have a few spare minutes, I’d love it if you’d to head over and read the announcement on Rails...

Here’s why you shouldn’t be afraid to use proprietary browser features–especially with stuff that’s more experimental and explorative in nature: First of all, lots of good things come from onc...

In celebration of the release of Rails 3 stable, I’m running a sale on my upgrade handbook. Be sure to get it soon because the sale ends today. Click here to get you some sweet, sweet discounted...

As you've probably already heard, Rails 3.0 is done, no longer just a beta, it's out there and beginning to be used. Go look at all the goodies we've got lined up!

Depués de mi post acerca de gestión de dependencias en Play con Maven tenía pendiente escribir cómo utilizar Ivy para este menester. Hay una nueva web, Cuisine, que recopila recetas para el framew...

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Hey everyone, been a while since I last posted.  Here is a quick update. I am now working at a great company, Datapipe, as VP of Cloud Strategy.   Datapipe has a great team, a great story, and great...

I just released a project I’ve been working on for a while, called WordCram.  As the title says, it’s a Processing library for generating word clouds. I found wordle.net a few years ago and reall...

This is why I love git and Github:

Thanks to Prentice Hall and Addison-Weseley giving me three new books, my reading list has bulked back up.  Here's what I'm working through at the moment: The Freebies UNIX and Linux System Administ...

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“ The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for. ” Ludwig Wittgenstein

A few of us participated in the Node Knockout this weekend. Our team built a real-time, multiplayer tower defense game named after this very site. We’re all fairly new to Node, but it was a breeze ...

I’m pleased to be able to return to Oslo for JavaZone 2010. Whether you’re checking out JRuby for the first time or a veteran JRuby user, I’ll have something for you! And if I don’t, I encoura...

iwasamonkey: ITS HIM!!!

Ehhez nem fűznék hozzá semmi egyebet, a gem install parancs már a 3.0-át rakja fel, a hivatalos bejelentés pedig itt olvasható. Pár hasznos infó még az átállásról itt. Permalink ...

Often we must work on various Django applications, each one dependent on different set of libraries. For examples, we are working on a Django 1.1 project and and we need to start a new one with th...

If you have frequently changing data on the server side, it's helpful to automatically display this to the user as well. Here I show how to accomplish this with polling in jQuery.

“rocking the enterprise with ruby” is the name of the talk given by Munjal Budhabhatti and Sudhindra Rao at the RubyKaigi 2010. Munjal and Sudhindra are two ThoughtWorkers and their customer is Ra...