ruby-prof's is one of the oldest gems around, dating all the way back to 2005 I did a fair of development back in 2008 to 2013 but its been six years since I've meaningfully...

I recently left Zerista, a company I founded in 2008 and that was acquired at the end of last year by Simpleview Zerista sells an event platform for conferences - think of it...

When I started working at Smallworld, which used its own programming language called Magik, I was aghast there wasn't any documentation of the class library And it was a large...

To really understand Ruby you need to understand its Class/Object model And to do that, read Brian Marick’s mini-book “A Little Ruby, a Lot of Objects” It’s modeled after...

I was planning to write about the blub paradox, a term coined by Paul Graham in an essay that argued that programmers can't conceptualize programming languages more powerful...

I was struck by Nicholas Carr's post about Wikipedia dominating search results Try it for yourself - google a few topics off the top of your head Odds are the first page of...

A great debate in linguistics is how much language influences thought In the world of computer science, I am firm believer in the theory Paul Graham, amongst many others,...

Its finally time to apply our new knowledge about coordinate systems to Google Maps Looking through the google maps newsgroups, you'll see lots of questions like: What...

There is still a bit more ground work to lay before getting to the fun stuff We've talked about local coordinate systems and geocentric coordinate systems Today, let's talk about...

Every artistic endeavor strives to capture some slice of the world around us You might be trying to create as realistic a portrayal as possible, or maybe you're after a highly...