Ruby’s gem and require explained with IRC wisdom

My Ruby rusts on the shelf. OK, here goes the evn, explainer: [08:28] evn: did you know ruby 1.9 has an autoloading thing [08:28] evn: its kind of odd [08:28] evn: its like a lazy require [08:28] evn: you have to set it up [08:28] evn: but it doesnt happen until the constant gets referenced …

RuPy – Ruby & Python Conference, which you may dig

Conferences: lots of folks you want to meet, many spaces to be in, lots happening at the same time. In Danish they call it “at gÃ¥ glip” (to miss out). Getting good at missing out is an important part of growing up. Wait, I’m not trying to tell you to cope with your fear of …

WideFinder in Io: it’s now too late

A Swede made the first WideFinder implementation in Io: Ragnar Dahlén. The results were informative, but not performant. Io can not compete just there, just yet. Me and Thorbiörn were conspiring last week to implement WideFinder, but we got waylaid by… distractions. The distractions were speculative, lazy, and touched on different OCamls. Like this: “We …

Malmo Linux User Group Wednesday pizza meetup notes

I attended a local geek meetup at La Trattoria, at 18:30 this past Wednesday. (map) I can recommend the mozzarella add-on to any pizza. InterSystems Caché® got hard slammed at the meeting. Horrible war stories about that object-oriented database. The guy who told them, Micke, was also a Högskolan i Skövde alumnus. New visitor record, …