Just released a new version of Radix, the base conversion library. The new version adds a Radix::Number class so numbers in alternate bases can be handled much more easily. Checkout the QEDoc on it to...

Berkeley Sockets (BSD) are the de facto API for all network communication. With roots from the early 1980's, it is the original implementation of the TCP/IP suite, and arguably one of the most widely ...

[NB: This series is here for my own reference. It is not meant as a help for others who are trying to solve problems at Project Euler. Please don't use it so because it will foil the purpose and also ...

We are just releasing the RubyConf Brazil official website! The conference will take place in São Paulo, Brazil, on October 26th and 27th. Come visit us in Brazil! If you need anything, just send a ...

Aside from extracting substrings based on regular expressions that can also be done using indexes. From APIdock: a = "hello there" a[1] #=> 101 a[1,3] #=> "ell"...

 OK, This probably isn't as bad as it sounds, but really. Email from redhat this morning:Some or all of your votes have been removed from bug 433649.You had 50 votes on this bug, but 50 have been re...

It's been a great year for Ruby on Android, but no one knows it. You can start writing Ruby apps for Android devices TODAY. You don't need to install any SDK, you don't need to install some giant Ecl...

An introduction to clojure.test is easy, but it doesn't take long before you feel like you need a mocking framework. As far as I know, you have 3 options.Take a look at Midje. I haven't gone down this...

I'm almost exclusively working on the Clutter cookbook at the moment, and I keep meaning to write about what it's like to spend your time writing. I'm not sure what's driving this need to explain myse...

Announcing Crow, a path-finding library in javascript. I also describe some of the basic API design, my experience with Google Closure, and QUnit.

Programming Challenge for Newbies in Clojure and Python too? RubyLearning has been conducting the monthly Ruby Programming Challenge for Newbies for over a year now and so far 12 challenges have been ...

[Steve Jobs mentions the iPad will support the new HDR photos feature] Me: Why did he just say HDR photos on iPad? Me: There is no camera. Shawn Morrison: Unless they’re bu...

Zucker 4 adds accessors to some environment information: OS: returns the current operating system RubyEngine: returns the current Ruby implementation RubyVersion: returns the current Ruby versi...

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...

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!

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:

The issue of Flash & Flex Developer's Magazine has two features on Amethyst this month. SapphireSteel Software's Amethyst, the Flash Platform IDE for Microsoft Visual Studio, was launched on the 3...

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...

Rails 3.0 is a gift from all of us who’ve worked on it to anyone who wants to build something. If you like our gift, please show it by donating to the Rails 3.0 release charity: Charity:Water. We’...