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Archive for October, 2007

The new Ruby logo

Posted in ruby on October 29, 2007 | No Comments »

Ruby has changed its logo:

It’s licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license and created by Tom Schaub for the Ruby Logo Contest.
IMO, the older logo is far better:

Sexy, simple and cleaner. What do you think?

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Ruby DSL to describe Automata

Posted in dsl, lisp, ruby, scheme on October 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Recently, I built an internal DSL using Scheme to describe Deterministic Finite State Automata. It was quite easy to do through Scheme Macros, whose are really powerful (and hard to understand). The article “S. Krishnamurti. Automata via Macros. Journal of Functional Programming, Volume 16 , Issue 3 (May 2006)” is a great reference if you [...]

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Brazilian Rails RejectConf SP’07

Posted in brazil, conference, rails, ruby on October 17, 2007 | No Comments »

Unfortunately, we still have few events related to Ruby on Rails here in Brazil. Fabio Akita started the movement to change it.
We are organizing an event here in São Paulo - Brazil (link pt-BR), similar to RejectConfs. It will happen on November 17, 2007.
If you are close to São Paulo this day, do not miss [...]

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JRuby even faster and IntelliJ IDEA 7 finally out!

Posted in intellij, ruby on October 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »

It’s been amazing days for tech guys like me. Due to the incredible job from the JRuby team (take a look here, here and here), JRuby is closer than ever to run Rails apps faster than MRI!
Congrats guys. I will for sure keep watching.
Some more great news came from JetBrains: “The Magnificent Seven is Released”. [...]

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Wanna learn Object Orientation and Java?

Posted in course, java, oo on October 9, 2007 | No Comments »

Caelum has just released its FJ-11: Java and Object Oriented Programming course material.
It’s the first of many, since Caelum has already released some (others) written in Brazilian Portuguese. Just a matter of time.
The textbook was also the first product made with Tubaina. I’ve used it for a while to document some things and I can [...]

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