Category Archives: Ruby

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TechKnow Year In Review 2009

By TechKnow | December 31, 2009

It is that time of year where we reflect on the accomplishments of the passing year and look forward to the one to come. Here is a window into the past year in technology through this year’s popular posts on TechKnow Juixe. Top Favorites Laws of Source Code and Software Development Repetative Recursion Technology and [...]

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Quotable DHH 2009

By TechKnow | November 25, 2009

David Heinemeier Hansson, commonly referred as DHH, is a polarizing programmer with a self professed fucking potty-mouth. He is opinionated and uncensored. He is a world renowned hater, he hates big enterprise software, large startup valuations, and apple pie. The web development framework he fashioned after himself is as opinionated and know-it-all as he is. [...]

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Download Twitter Profile Images Using Ruby

By TechKnow | October 27, 2009

Recently, I gave myself the small task of going through all my Twitter retries and downloading each profile image from each Twitter user that replied to me. To access my Twitter replies I used the Twitter Ruby Gem. I am using Twitter gem version 0.4.1. The script is small and pretty concise that it can [...]

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Jamming with Ruby YAML

By TechKnow | October 8, 2009

When working with Ruby, the library/class I use and abuse most often is YAML. YAML stands for YAML Ain’t Markup Language and it is a versatile human friendly data serialization format. It is easier to use and understand than JSON. A YAML file is much like a Java properties file in that is used to [...]

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The Rubyist: August 2009 Edition

By TechKnow | September 7, 2009

Here is a recap of the top Ruby-related links for the month of August 2009. Links for The Rubyist are provided by A Rubyist Railstastic Adventure, a tumblelog. Ruby Ruby5 Podcast – Episode #1 Ruby Hoedown 2009 Wrap-Up Avi Bryant on Trendly, Ruby, Smalltalk and Javascript Compiling Ruby: From Text to Bytecode Ruby’s Metaprogramming Toolbox [...]

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The Rubyist: July 2009 Edition

By TechKnow | August 3, 2009

Here is a recap of the top Ruby-related links for the month of July 2009. Links for The Rubyist are provided by A Rubyist Railstastic Adventure, a tumblelog. Ruby The Great Ruby IDE Smackdown of ’09 Three Years of Real-World Ruby Python vs Ruby Python’s Beards and Ruby’s “Cool” Guys The Ruby Programming Language An [...]

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