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 about …
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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 …
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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 easy as you might guess.* …
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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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