Michael Granger gave a RubyConf 2006 presentation on Natural Language Processing and Natural Language Generation in Ruby. Michael gave some interesting demos where he was able to break a sentence into its grammatical building blocks such as subject, verb, and noun. He was also able to translate a sentence into a more generic version of [...]
Tim Bray of Sun Microsystems gave an insightful presentation on Internationalization (I18N), Multilingualization (M17N), and unicode. Even Tim who has spent most of his career in unicode support add admitted that “for some this is not the most stimulating subject.” Tim asked the audience of programmers, “why do we care about internationalization?” The reason is [...]
Because Josh Susser was unavailable for his RubyConf session, the organizers opened the time slot to the audience members, allowing each 5 to 10 minutes for demos or presentations. Here are some of the noteworthy presentations from this time slot. Someone from NOAA presented on Ruby Queue. Ruby Queue is a tool for building linux [...]
Laurent Sansonetti of Apple gave an awesome presentation on RubyOSA. RubyOSA is a Ruby/AppleEvent bridge that allows Ruby programs to interact and manipulate Apple applications in the same fashion that AppleScript can. Here is a code sample from the RubyOSA site: According to Laurent, Ruby has been shipped with OS X since 10.2, ‘Jaguar’ which [...]
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Nathaniel Talbott, fearless leader at Terralien, drew some comparisons between Ruby’s characteristics and the way you should go about starting and managing a software development outfit. According to Nathaniel, you are saying something when choosing Ruby as your programming language. I have heard other business folks make this same comment, as to say that you [...]
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It was great to have Yukihiro ‘Matz’ Matsumoto, the language designer of Ruby, accessible throughout the RubyConf. I saw him throughout the conference during lunch, breaks, and after hours. During this session he answered questions from the crowd. To get the Q&A session started, Rich Kilmer jokingly asked the first question in behalf of DHH, [...]
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