Debugging and Dissection Dojo – 5 Weapons/Techniques of Choice
When I started with Ruby about a year ago, I felt a little bit lost at first. With a strong Java background I simply wasn’t used to so much meta programming, mixins, and dynamic/duck typing. While...
View ArticleRuboto: Ruby’s and Android’s First Born
The Android platform is Googles attempt to give the iPhone a run for its money. In the last year or two, it grew to be a worthy opponent. One reason for this is the fact that it has a lot of funky...
View ArticleTiny jQuery Mobile App Powered by Sinatra
In my article Ruboto: Ruby’s and Android’s First Born, I covered one way to use Ruby for mobile app development. In that article, we created a native Android app in JRuby that could run on Android’s...
View ArticleRuby + Arduino + LEGO® = RuBot
A while back I had a long weekend to kill and was in the mood for some just-for-fun hacking. The weather was predicted to be awful and I remembered that I always wanted to build a robot. Of course, I...
View ArticleDetecting Faces with Ruby: FFI in a Nutshell
In the last couple of years, I became quite fond of Ruby. It was so refreshing to simply get things done without caring too much about typecasts or memory management. The magnificent expressiveness of...
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