My Collected Articles

I decided to collect urls of some of my longer entries here, things I think are of lasting significance and have put them up with some of my other articles. Some of the blog entries need a little more polish before they can be considered as standalone articles though. If there is something that you are looking for, chances are that you may find it here:

http://www.thinkingms.com/pensieve/homepage/articles/articles_tech.htm

JRuby

I didn’t know that this beast existed. This is a Ruby port to the JVM.

http://jruby.sourceforge.net

JRuby is a pure Java implementation of the Ruby interpreter, being developed by the JRuby team.

JRuby is free software released under a dual GPL/LGPL license.

JRuby is tightly integrated with Java to allow both to script any Java class and to embed the interpreter into any Java application.

A Little Ruby, A Lot of Objects

This is good fun to take a look at. This also talks a bit about Ruby’s meta-class hackery

http://web.archive.org/web/20030618203059/visibleworkings.com/little-ruby/

This is a draft book titled A Little Ruby, A Lot of Objects. It's in the style of Friedman and Felleisen's wonderful The Little Lisper (now called The Little Schemer), but on a different topic. From the preface:

Welcome to my little book. In it, my goal is to teach you a way to think about computation, to show you how far you can take a simple idea: that all computation consists of sending messages to objects. Object-oriented programming is no longer unusual, but taking it to the extreme - making everything an object - is still supported by only a few programming languages.

Can I justify this book in practical terms? Will reading it make you a better programmer, even if you never use "call with current continuation" or indulge in "metaclass hackery"? I think it might, but perhaps only if you're the sort of person who would read this sort of book even if it had no practical value.

The real reason for reading this book is that the ideas in it are neat. There's an intellectual heritage here, a history of people building idea upon idea. It's an academic heritage, but not in the fussy sense. It's more a joyous heritage of tinkerers, of people buttonholing their friends and saying, "You know, if I take that and think about it like this, look what I can do!"

Schemers.org

A website about Scheme

http://www.schemers.org

Another American Pie Spoof : Bye Bye Mr CIO Guy

This is titled “Bye Bye Mr CIO guy” and is performed by Pat Helland, David Chappell and Don Box at the Europe TechEd. This is just hilarious. I highly recommend this for your free time.

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=11950