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Cape Town Ruby Brigade Meeting - 20th January 2009
Topic: Microformats by Andy Volk
Venue: Sudoroom, Bandwidth Barn, 5th Floor 125
Buitengracht, Cape Town
Date: Wednesday, 20th January 2009
Time: 19:00
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Rediscovering Ruby: GServer
One of the great aspects in working with Ruby is not just the language itself but the builtin APIs that come with it. In this series of Rediscovering Ruby articles I will be digging through the Core and Standard Ruby APIs looking for those useful gems that are either undiscovered or that have been forgotten over time. First up GServer, a micro-framework allowing you to quickly create servers that can handle multiple client requests.
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Languages To Learn For 2010
It’s generally good programming practise to try to learn, or at least become familiar, with a new programming language every year. 2009 was a bit of a washout for me in this regard but in 2008 it was Erlang and although I haven’t had the time to actually produce a project with Erlang I’ve read Joe Armstrong’s Programming Erlang and like the concept and semantics of the language. The syntax though is still a little bit wierd to me, but that apprehension is probably due to my lack of practise in the language.
This year I’ve decided to try my hand at two languages, one relatively very old and one relatively very new. The old language is Scheme, although I’m still up in the air over which implementation to try: Chicken Scheme or PLT Scheme. The new language is Google’s Go programming language.
I might try and post a few articles on either language on this blog during the course of 2010, that is if I manage to learn enough to not look like a complete rank beginner.
About Aimred
Aimred is a specialist Ruby and Ruby on Rails development house and consultancy based in Cape Town, South Africa.
We provide Ruby and Ruby on Rails development, consulting and training services to all enterprise levels. If you want to find out how we can help your company, contact us at info@aimred.com.
Why Ruby?
Ruby is an object oriented programming language that is designed to make development as quick and painless as posssible. Taking the best practices from a number of other languages, Ruby
- is easy to write, read and maintain
- has a well thought out and extensive standard API
- has a thriving developer community
- is rapidly gaining popularity worldwide
Ruby is on the cutting edge of web development technology, not only through the Ruby on Rails framework, but also through new and exciting frameworks such as Merb and Sequel.
Ruby is also ideal for traditional application development and available APIs allow Ruby to create cross platform GUI applications for Linux, Apple OS X, Microsoft Windows and Sun Solaris.
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