As noted else where, ruby 191 hasn't exactly bounded out of the gate That's not particularly surprising, considering 191 has been available for only a...

I'm happy to announce the release of libxml-ruby 113 Besides including the usual assortment of new features and bug fixes, this release also includes a speed...

A mere seven years after its inception, libxml-ruby has finally reached version 10 libxml-ruby provides ruby, via the libxml2 libary, the super fast, feature rich xml parser...

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...

Last year I wrote about how to profile your Rails application, which is a lot harder then it seems Its not so much the profiling itself - its easy enough to create one-off...

I'm happy to announce the release of ruby-prof 070, the superfast, open-source, Ruby profiler that helps you find bottlenecks in your Ruby code This release was a joint...

No doubt this post is two weeks past its prime, but better late than never, right On Sunday, October 26th, Yue and I headed downtown to check out Barak Obama's campaign...

Rafting down the Grand Canyon has been on my todo list for a long time Over the years, I've rafted or canoed the James, Potomac, Rappahannock, Shenandoah, Arkansas, Taylor (well...

One of the projects we've been working on for MapBuzz the last few weeks is building an interactive map that shows all the events going on in Denver during the Democratic...

There is general discontent with the state of XML processing in Ruby - see for example here or here An obvious solution is to use libxml However that has been a non-starter...