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Re:Everything You Need to Know About Unicorn on Tuesday May 18, 2010 @06:51PM (#1359384)
Ha!

It's back up, either way :p

Re:Ruby Summer of Code on Wednesday March 24, 2010 @10:29PM (#1217528)
We'll work to clarify the language, but those were a subset of the questions on the applications. We will be asking about the applicant, but that didn't seem like questions that'd need a lot of prep ;)

As for suggestions for projects, we're working on them, but as with GSoC, the really good ideas will likely come from the student applicants.

Ready, Set, Go

http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/ready-set-go/

Google recently publicly released their new programming language, Go. I’ve known about this for some time, having worked for the big G while it was in development, although not directly involved.Google has plenty of special purpose languages, but this is the first general purpose language to come out of Mountain View. That fact alone makes it quite interesting. Add to it that some of the...

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Improving the Rubinius Bytecode Compiler

http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/improving-the-rubinius-bytecode-compiler/

In this post, I’ll explain what I’ve been doing and how it relates to getting Rubinius ready for 1.0. We recently released version 0.12 and we’re going to be doing releases about every two weeks. If you haven’t built Rubinius yet to check it out, head over to our download page and get started!

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The Art of Library

http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/the-art-of-library/

Honk if you love hacking! I know I do, and boy is it ever satisfying to turn a tough problem into a clever solution. But as you tumble down the slippery hacking slopes, picking up loose bits of code, you may find the itch to start writing code for other hackers. Good thought, but realize that implementation is just the tip of the iceberg.

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Yehuda Katz's 10 Favorite Things About Ruby

http://yehudakatz.com/2009/08/24/my-10-favorite-things-about-the-ruby-language/

"I work with Ruby every single day, and over time have come to really enjoy using it. Here’s a list of some specific things that I really like about Ruby. Some of them are obvious, and some are shared with other languages. The purpose is to share things I like about Ruby, not to compare and contrast with any specific language."

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