Forrest Gump: That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a little run. So I ran to the end of the road. And when I got there, I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got there, I thought maybe I'd just run across Greenbow County. And I figured, since I run this far, maybe I'd just run across the great state of Alabama. And that's what I did. I ran clear across Alabama. For no particular reason I just kept on going. I ran clear to the ocean. And when I got there, I figured, since I'd gone this far, I might as well turn around, just keep on going. When I got to another ocean, I figured, since I'd gone this far, I might as well just turn back, keep right on going. When I got tired, I slept. When I got hungry, I ate. When I had to go... you know... I went.
Interesting statistic.
A Lisp coder earns on average $85k, while a Java-guy $76k. I wonder whether
that statistic would change if one takes out the age-factor. :-)
Let’s admit it, Lisp coders are on average very smart, but so are the
early ruby adapters .. and they get only on average $60k. Sniff ..
Short update, before the conference on
Nov 4 and 5.
We are still evaluating whether we should get a bigger room. Sofar we have
about 30 people that confirmed that they will show up. We have space for 50
people and might simple close the conference registration once we are fully
booked and overbooked by 5% like these airline companies.
O’Reilly might give a free book to every speaker. Please add to the
wiki what book you want. I will send off our wish list o O’Reilly
around Oct 5.
Please put titles of your talks in the wiki, so that some structure will
emerge. In the worst case we do a "planing-game" at the start of
the conference and quickly produce the program as we did last year.
Get-Togethers will be announced in the wiki till Friday this week.
I came across this insane Dilbert-like posting
in the comp.lang.java.programmer group.
> Hi all,
> When you are programming, what kind of music or which song you love to
> hear? Is it classic music, piano, or pop music? Is it by male singer or
> by female singer?
I don't listen to music as such; I listen to an 8-second mp3-loop of my
manager screeching, puce-faced, at the top voice, "WTF is taking you so
long?!?! RELEASE THE CODE!!!! RELEASE THE CODE!!!! WTF AM I PAYING YOUR
SALARY FOR?!?! RELEASE THE F%#KING CODE, YOUR WORTHLESS, DISGUSTING,
INTOLERABLE PIECE OF S@&T!!!"
> I think sometime hearing music would be helpful in
> our productivity, right?
I find that this mp3-loop truly helps <TWITCH> my productivity. I love
<TWITCH> my manager, and dream of him <TWITCH><TWITCH><releases safety>
often ...
> Regards,
> Sam Huang
.ed
I saw that a small team of good people seemed to outperform the most
disciplined process, toolset, or philosophy. A bad team usually failed to
produce a good result, regardless of what magic process was applied. Article
Euruko06, the European Ruby Conference,
will be in Munich, November 4 and 5, 2006.
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* Conference wiki: http://www.euruko.com *
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This year, we'll meet in a hotel in Munich,
locations are being searched for. If you know
of a good place, let us know, too.
The conference will begin at 10 AM on Saturday and
end sometime on Sunday.
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* matz has offered to give us a *
* Skype video message. *
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Audience: Everybody interested in Ruby is most welcome!
Fee: minimal fee of 20 EUR, T-Shirts will be extra
(cash in small unmarked bills)
Registration: wiki at http://www.euruko.com, follow the link
to the Visitors' Page.
Talks: If you want to give a talk, please put down
topic (an short description) on the wiki, too.
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* Design the conference T-Shirt *
* or I'll do it again ... *
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If you have questions drop us a note at
euruk...@euruko.com
See you in Munich,
Approximity GmbH offers commercial ruby and R support
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down interesting solutions as no company out there offers commercial
support. Therfore, if anybody is out there trying todo great stuff in R or
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We have been using R and ruby since 1998.
Please send requests to armin (at) approximity.com.
This is the home page of the
project to translate into English the Ruby Hacking Guide. The RHG is a book
that explains how the ruby interpreter (the official C implementation of
the Ruby language) works internally.
To fully understand it, you need a good knowledge of C and Ruby. The
original book includes a Ruby tutorial (chapter 1), but it has not been
translated yet, and we think there are more important chapters to translate
first. So if you have not done it yet, you should read a book like the
Pickaxe first.
Please note that this book was based on the source code of ruby 1.7.3 so
there are a few small differences to the current version of ruby. However,
these differences may make the source code simpler to understand and the
Ruby Hacking Guide is a good starting point before looking into the ruby
source code. The version of the source code used can be downloaded here: i.loveruby.net/ja/rhg/ar/ruby-rhg.tar.gz.
Many thanks to RubyForge for hosting us and to Minero AOKI for letting us
translate his work.
I came across this useful posting by Gregor Gorjanc in the r-help ML.
R graphical manuals (this is awesome page as there are all help pages of
all packages on CRAN and probably even more and all graphics examples are
displayed! - more than 8000 images!)
