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Parsing HTML with Ruby

While working on a little school project I found that at some point I would have to do some HTML parsing. having heard of why I went,then,to Hpricot page and started working with it.

Not a good decision,it turned out,out,because when you look for Hpricot,there is not much out [...]

Getting Ruby to work on Vista64Getting Ruby to work on Vista64

Trying to get Ruby and Rails to work in Vista64 turned to be an exercise in masochism:All the wikis,blogs,fora and others re contradicting one another,based on what worked in one system and extrapolating to other situations.

Here,I am going to do the same.

Part of the problem is that,after [...]

more Haskell

Real World Haskell has five more chapters.

Haskell came to my attention after reading all the reddit posts about it. Time to give it a try.

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Clojure,a new Lisp is born

Everybody has been talking about it:

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MVC

While working on some web app implementation (from the sidelines,really),I was reminded of the complexities of the MVC model:Model-View-Controller is the concept introduced by Smalltalk’s inventors (TrygveReenskaug and others) of encapsulating some data together with its processing (the model) and isolate it from the manipulation (the controller) and presentation (the view) part [...]

Fractal benchmark

A fractal benchmark,for those considering the total switch to ruby:is this accurate?

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Ruby Acceptance

Cedric is pessimistic regarding Ruby and its mainstream acceptance:Why Ruby on Rails won’t become mainstream Interestingly,they might even be right. But by then,it won’t matter because despite its technical excellence,Ruby on Rails will still be a niche technology that only experts know about.

And then he proceeds to make a case [...]

Ruby fast

Ruby fast Justin Gehtlan has some interesting numbers from a ruby app at Some Numbers at Last,with the sweetest conclusion:Rails can be very fast…On the other hand,I am going to spend more of my time trying to find projects that I can use Rails on.

Let’s become evangelists for Ruby and [...]

Tip of the morning

In reality,the Iron Monkey has it right when he advises people on how to be good,whether coders or rock stars:learn what others have been doing well,and learn to do it like that. Of course,it also means that you have to read,practice,read again and practice until you comprehend whatever [...]

On Ruby,Basecamp,and Lisp

I have finally drank the kool-aid,and started reading on ruby,rails,information architecture,lisp and all those (soon to-do) SCIP ideas. As it happens,everybody is doing that,and there is no first in market advantage here,but it does not really matter:I will be an enlightened individual,I hope. With Ruby,though,[...]