FOSSSL
Next month, I will be presenting at
FOSSSL '05 in Colombo,
Sri Lanka; first a
keynote on Friday entitled The Case for Dynamic Languages,
then a tutorial on Saturday entitled Riding Ruby-On-Rails.
Ruby on Ruby-On-Rails
Sam Ruby: “Next month, I will be presenting at FOSSSL '05 in Colombo, Sri Lanka... a tutorial on Saturday entitled Riding Ruby-On-Rails.” I think I hear more about Ruby-On-Rails these days than any other development tool/platform. Even...Excerpt from Randy Holloway Unfiltered at
Cool! Be sure and get down the coast a bit, and if you can up into the hills, very different climates/environments. And you must try curd and trickle. Calm Buddhist temples. Mad Hindu temples. Tea. Elephants. Arthur C. Clarke. Etc.
Posted by Danny at
s/trickle/treacle/ .. definitely good stuff :).
We’re organizing for Sam to see elephants ([link]) and Sigiriya ([link]) .. unfortunately that’s all his schedule allows.
Sanjiva.
Posted by Sanjiva Weerawarana atI’m taking my girlfriend to Sri Lanka
Ruby, apparently. So yeah, I got confirmation. I will be speaking on Ruby at FOSSSL. My talk will most probably follow Sam Ruby’s. I’m flying Thursday night, and back Monday morning. Should be fun....Excerpt from Premshree's (品速力) Personal Weblog at
The Case for Dynamic Languages, by Sam Ruby
The Case for Dynamic Languages, slides from Sam Ruby’s keynote at FOSSSL, via Sam Ruby....Excerpt from Keith's Weblog at
The Case for Dynamic Languages (Sam Ruby's slides)
... rediscovering Smalltalk one decade at a time....Excerpt from del.icio.us/tag/ruby at
"Kind of functional style"
Brian McAllister commented on my last post, and basically agreed with me that it‘s not easy to talk about this technique, due to the labelling problem. Brian‘s variant is to call it a “kind of functional style“, but notes...Excerpt from Process Perfection at
My talk, and other things in Sri Lanka
I didn’t know Sam’s talk would cover some Ruby. Anyway, I did more like a hands-on thingie, and since many things didn’t overlap, things were good. I tried to demonstrate things that are different and fun in Ruby. Saying...Excerpt from Premshree's (品速力) Personal Weblog at
Phew... Did we pull it off?
After months of going to planning meetings and running around organizing “The biggest FOSS conference”, ever in SL, well the FOSS week has finally come to end today. Hopefully we can now sleep a bit longer and breath a little easier. I’m not going...Excerpt from Geek with an attitude at
“Reinventing Smalltalk, one decade at a Time”
Sam posts the slides from his “The Case For Dynamic Languages” keynote at FOSSSL....Excerpt from lesscode.org at
Sam Ruby's Case for Dynamic Languages
Sam Ruby gave a keynote at FOSSSL on The Case for Dynamic Languages. He details the past to the present, and then shows why he thinks this is all good :) He happens to use Ruby as the scripting language ;) A lot of the ideas come from Jim Weirich’s...Excerpt from techno.blog("Dion") at
Reinventing Smalltalk, one decade at a time
An interesting presentation from Sam Ruby: “Reinventing Smalltalk, one decade at a time”...Excerpt from The Hitchhiker's Guide to ... at
So, do people ever think that means the language was named after you? :-)
Posted by Dr. Ernie at