After supporting linear regression and TensorBoard, the next step for the tensorflow-ruby gem is to run MNIST, the "Hello World" of deep learning But before we can do that, we...

Now that tensorflow-ruby supports linear regression, its time to implement support for TensorBoard which helps you visualize how your model is working TensorFlow 2 supports...

The TensforFlow Ruby bindings have achieved a milestone - its now possible to train a model to solve linear regression I know, that doesn't sound like much, but in fact its more...

Since I recently left Zerista, I've had time some time to take a step back and think about what type of problems I want to work on next And one of the things I haven't had a...

Having decided to try and create Ruby bindings for TensorFlow, it was time to understand the scope of the project TensorFlow is a large, complex...

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...

Development of the Zerista iOS app started in the summer of 2011 Due to lack of internal resources and knowledge, we decided to outsource  development of the initial...

Development of the Zerista server started in the summer of 2006, two years before Zerista even existed! My original idea was to create a social mapping platform - looking back...

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...

One of the great new features of the upcoming postgresql 84 release is the addition of window functions Previously limited to enterprise databases such as Oracle and DB2, they...

Hearing about the latest and greatest Facebook application reminds me of reading FastCompany or Business 20, before it went bust The typical story goes like this - a couple of...

Shugo and I are happy to announce the release of ruby-prof 060 If you haven't used ruby-prof, its a superfast, open-source, profiler for Ruby that shows you where your...

Maybe its just me, but what I want from a JavaScript library seems to be diverging from what Prototype provides What I want, in order of importance, is: A cross-browser...

As many of you know, I'm a big fan of Atom, including both the syndication format and publishing protocol At Foss4g, I gave a talk that argued that Atom offers a better solution...

Wilhelm Chung had a nice followup to my post last week about Rails Unusual Architecture He provides more details about how alias_method_chain works and even includes a few...

Back when I started MapBuzz, there was so little work being done in the open source geospatial world with Ruby and/or Rails that Sean even commented on it Geospatial was the...

Let's continue our on-again, off-again series about making Rails better We've talked about fixing ActiveRecord's awkward handling of attributes, implementing RESTful error...

There has been surprisingly little written about how Rails is implemented If you Google for "architecture Rails" you'll find plenty of articles that describe Rails as a web...

How neat, Matz linked to my article about fixing architecture flaws in ActiveRecord Of course I was curious to see what he said, so I ran his comments through online...

Error handling in web applications is devilishly complex - we ended up rewriting SIAS's error handling code in almost every release There are two main sources of complexity...