Tag Archives: ruby

Once More, This Time With Clojure

Posted on January 1, 2012 by Joey Gibson

If you happened to read my post from the other day entitled My New “Top Artists Last 7 Days” Widget, you know that I went through three iterations of getting it going. The final solution, written in Ruby worked well. Until … Continue reading →

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Grails Podcast Mentions My Closure Post

Posted on November 3, 2008 by Joey Gibson

Like other bloggers with an ego, I have Google Alerts set up to let me know when someone mentions me or my blog anywhere that Google knows about. I got an alert yesterday letting me know that I’d been mentioned … Continue reading →

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Why I Love Closures

Posted on October 4, 2008 by Joey Gibson

I’ve been a big fan of closures for years. I was first introduced to them in Smalltalk, where they were just called blocks. Ruby has them and also calls them blocks. Java does not have them, though there are proposals … Continue reading →

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I’m Digging Java Again

Posted on September 7, 2008 by Joey Gibson

I first started doing Java back in 1995. That’s quite a long time ago. Once I got going, I wrote Java code every single day, for thirteen years. I co-authored a Java book, gave talks on Java and was an … Continue reading →

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Ruby + MySQL + Windows = SUCCESS! (Finally)

Posted on June 17, 2005 by Joey Gibson

If you do a Google for “ruby mysql windows” you will find, among other things, lots of people trying to use Ruby to access MySQL on a Windows system. I’ve been trying for some time, and have finally gotten things … Continue reading →

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I Am Bushed…

Posted on October 3, 2004 by Joey Gibson

Today is Day Three of RubyConf2004 and I’m tired. This has been a good conference. Lots of stuff to think about and play with. Lots of code flying around and lots of laptops all in one room. I was up … Continue reading →

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AtlRUG: Second Meeting

Posted on April 22, 2004 by Joey Gibson

The second meeting of the Atlanta Ruby User Group will be next Tuesday, April 27 at 7:00PM. We will continue with my introduction to Ruby presentation and discuss what others have been working on since the last meeting. I also … Continue reading →

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Atlanta Ruby User Group

Posted on March 8, 2004 by Joey Gibson

If you read my stuff very often then you know that I am a huge fan of the Ruby programming language. I write a ton of Ruby code and went to RubyConf 2003, so there was only one other direction … Continue reading →

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SSH Util Ruby Script

Posted on January 7, 2004 by Joey Gibson

OpenSSH, that ships with Cygwin has a nice utility called ssh-agent. This program is a daemon that will hold on to your keys so that hosts you are authorized to log on to will not continually ask for your password. … Continue reading →

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Mixer Remixed

Posted on September 17, 2003 by Joey Gibson

After reading several threads about the text scrmabler and various implementations, I revised my Ruby version and it’s now 21 lines shorter and much more Ruby-like. It makes far less of an attempt to deal with punctuation, but I think … Continue reading →

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By Popular Demand, I Give You… Mixer!

Posted on September 15, 2003 by Joey Gibson

“Popular demand,” yeah… right… That’s the ticket. Anyway, I saw this blog entry by Jamie this morning which caused me to write a Ruby program to mix up the letters of words, leaving the first and last letter as they … Continue reading →

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Simplicity and Consistency

Posted on July 8, 2003 by Joey Gibson

Mike Clark this morning has a bit of a nudge for Rael to give Ruby a try. Mike makes the following statement that I completely agree with The beauty of Ruby is its simplicity and consistency. With Ruby, I find … Continue reading →

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Kata 6

Posted on June 27, 2003 by Joey Gibson

I took a swipe at implementing Dave Thomas’ Kata 6 which is an assignment dealing with anagrams. The goal is to parse a list of 45000-ish words, finding all the words that are anagrams of other words in the file. … Continue reading →

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First Cut At Kata 8

Posted on June 20, 2003 by Joey Gibson

Dave Thomas of the Pragmatic Programmers has started publishing programming problems, calling them Kata. He’s just published Kata 8 this morning and I’ve had a go at a solution. The problem is to take a supplied list of words and … Continue reading →

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