While Node.js is the hot new kid on the block, evented libraries like EventMachine for Ruby and Twisted for Python have existed for a long time. When does it make sense to use one over the other? What are the advantages and disadvantages to using node over ruby?
This video shows how to build a rocking’ mobile-ready site with Ruby on Rails. The presenter discusses his successes and failures, as well as how to get your site ready for every smart phone and tablet out there.
The Rails and Merb development teams merged to create Rails 3 in 2008, but while those competing teams merged, their frameworks didn’t. Though Rails 3 shows plenty of influence from Merb and its creators, today Merb itself is a legacy framework, with no clear, supported path for Merb apps to …
Programming languages must be implemented in Java or C, everybody knows this. Sure, a prototype in Ruby, but that would be unusable. After all, Ruby is made for web development, right? Hard tasks, like implementing a compiler, have to happen in far more manly languages. But wait, the Rubinius compiler …
This video discusses pattern matching. It explains how a pattern can be converted to a state machine, how to improve execution time of that state machine, and how to turn the state machine back in to a pattern. It shows how these state machines relate to the routing systems in …
It was said that you should write code “for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute” but it’s easier said than done. Object-oriented design, patterns and software architecture are primarily concerned with the mechanical structure of code. Could we take a step back from the code and …
