Here are some rambling notes on the themes and connections – intended and mostly otherwise – I saw in the material presented and discussed in the halls at Nordic Ruby.
In Tom Preston-Werner’s opening session, he talked …
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I'm very excited to be speaking at the Scottish Ruby Conference on Saturday. I've been an attendee at the conference (well, in its previous incarnation as Scotland on Rails) and it's one of my all-time favorite conferences.
My talk is on the challenges …
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For the past few days, I’ve subscribed to the excellent Song of the Day podcast at KEXP. I wanted to move the “good ones” to my iTunes Library, but unfortunately, iTunes does some odd things with podcast files, so this isn’t as …
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In general, I really like the way Ruby handles class inheritance & module mix-ins. But, recently, I found an odd behavior - maybe a bug? - in Ruby 1.8.6 (the Ruby shipping with Leopard) when using alias_method and super inside an included module …
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Hi! I'm Joshua Wehner, and this is my blog.
