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Where are JavaScript and the web going?

By Simon St. Laurent
April 3, 2013

JavaScript and HTML5 just keep moving. One day it’s form validation, the next animation. Then it becomes full-on model view controller stacks getting data from sensors on devices and communicating with back-end servers that are themselves largely JavaScript. Peter Cooper …

Getting started with data-related explorations of everyday things

By Andy Oram
June 7, 2012

Sau Sheong Chang describes the intriguing projects in his upcoming book, "Exploring Everyday Things with R and Ruby" and how other people can develop their own experiments.

Getting started with data-related explorations of everyday things

By Andy Oram
June 7, 2012

Sau Sheong Chang describes the intriguing projects in his upcoming book, "Exploring Everyday Things with R and Ruby" and how other people can develop their own experiments.

Welcome Elisabeth Robson!

By Kerry Butson
May 1, 2012

Versatile instructor and utility player Elisabeth Robson joins OST faculty.

It's True. Don't Believe A Word Of It.

By Paul Barry
July 29, 2011

The Ruby book was smoking!

Ruby is for Java

By Timothy M. O'Brien
July 19, 2011

Bob McWhirter, JBoss Fellow, Codehaus Despot, and creator of TorqueBox, discusses the boundary between Java and Ruby and his efforts to make Torquebox "a real first-class Ruby platform that works the way Rubyists expect".

A rough guide to JVM languages

By Edd Dumbill
July 7, 2011

This overview of JVM-based programming compares the relative strengths of the major languages.

Four short links: 4 April 2011

By Nat Torkington
April 4, 2011

Find The Future -- New York Public Library big game, by Jane McGonigal. (via Imran Ali) Enable Certificate Checking on Mac OS X -- how to get your browser to catch attempts to trick you with revoked certificates (more of a worry since security problems at certificate authorities came to light). (via Peter Biddle) Clever Algorithms -- Nature-Inspired Programming...

Developer Year in Review: Programming Languages

By James Turner
December 22, 2010

This year brought confusion and chaos in the Java space, continued growth for functional languages due to the attack of multicore, and the usual popularity for all of the dynamic languages we know and love.

Four short links: 22 December 2010

By Nat Torkington
December 22, 2010

ietherpad -- continuation of the etherpad startup. Offers pro accounts, and promise an iPad app to come. (via Steve O'Grady on Twitter) Scala Collections Quickref -- quick reference card for the Scala collections classes. (via Ian Kallen on Twitter) Raw Data and the Rise of Little Brother -- Turns out, despite the great push for citizen journalism, citizens are...

Ruby Schematron

By Rick Jelliffe
June 4, 2010

Francesco Lazzarino has a project up at RubyForge for a Ruby runner for ISO Schematron. (Open source: MIT/ Consortium License) Schematron is a small ISO-standard language for making assertions or reports about patterns in and between XML documents, typically using...

REST and Flex

By Luca Mezzalira
January 13, 2010

In this tutorial we start to work with REST and Flex, are you asking what is and why use REST? So here we are, REST is acronym for REpresentational State Transfer and it helps you to provide services to comunicate...

Announcing O'Reilly Answers - Clever Hacks. Creative Ideas. Innovative Solutions.

By Allen Noren
November 4, 2009

We're launching the beta of O'Reilly Answers, and I'm inviting you to be part of it. In brief, O'Reilly Answers is a community site for sharing knowledge, asking questions, and providing answers that brings together our customers, authors, editors, conference speakers, and Foo (Friends of O'Reilly). O'Reilly is at the center of an amazing exchange of knowledge sharing and idea generation, and we want you to join us in changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators.

Rails in a Nutshell Manuscript Open For Collaboration

By Keith Fahlgren
October 19, 2009

Following hot on the launch of the Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript manuscript three weeks ago, I'm pleased that Rails in a Nutshell, from Cody Fauser, James MacAulay, Edward Ocampo-Gooding and John Guenin is now live and...

Dreaming of Rails as the Next Microsoft Access

By Simon St. Laurent
May 5, 2009

Rails? Microsoft Access? Aren't those from different planets? Well, they may have different origins, but their similarities give me hope.

Using Helpers and Blocks to easily add design to your site

By Eric Berry
April 8, 2009

I bought the program Coda by Panic software. It is a pretty cool app, even though it is not my preferred editor. One thing that I love about Panic software is they make beautiful interfaces. In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to create a 'sheet' similar to those found in Coda.

You ain't gonna need what?

By Mike Loukides
April 8, 2009

One of the defining characteristics of the Rails movement has been its willingness to throw out the rules by which software developers and consultants have typically worked. Those rules typically produce big, overblown projects laden with features that no one ever uses--but which sounded good during the project specification phase. Build the simplest thing that could possibly work, and...

ISBN adventures

By Simon St. Laurent
February 16, 2009

For most people, ISBNs are random noise on the backs of books, helpful mostly for barcode scanning at the register. For publishing folk, ISBNs can actually be memorable, magic keys for jumping from one system to the next. Of course, there are now two different flavors of ISBN, the obsolete (I prefer 'classic') variety with 10 digits, and the new version with 13 digits. Working with two sets of magic keys can be complicating.

Using the Twitter Search API to Refine TOC Conference Tweet Data

By Andrew Savikas
February 15, 2009

I didn't see it coming from this audience, but the Twitter chatter was thunderous during the TOC Conference this year. As things wound up, a lot of attendees were looking for a single list of all the conference tweets. Not...

Concept Management

By Eric Larson
January 30, 2009

Distributed version control systems have brought up some pretty important questions. A DVCS adds a good deal of complexity to an already complicated system. Source control is rather sticky business as it not only deals with complex content, but the...

Rubyist Pat Eyler Interviews Ruby Best Practises Author Gregory Brown

By Sara Peyton
January 14, 2009

Ruby aficionado Pat Eyler is conducting a series of wonderful interviews with Gregory Brown, the author of O'Reilly's upcoming Ruby Best Practices (currently in Rough Cuts).

Practice

By Simon St. Laurent
January 1, 2009

My New Year's Resolution for this year is simple: practice. You don't have to achieve (or even aim for) total mastery for the practice to be worthwhile.

Installing Instant Rails on Windows

By Simon St. Laurent
December 22, 2008

Instant Rails is getting old, but it's still a quick way to install Rails and start coding. This screencast shows how to download and install Instant Rails, and shows off how it works with a simple example from Chapter 2 of Learning Rails.

Creating Custom SOAP Requests with Ruby and Net::HTTP

By Eric Berry
December 19, 2008

Learn to create a custom SOAP request using Ruby and Net::HTTP

A Conversation with the Authors of JRuby Cookbook

By Timothy M. O'Brien
November 25, 2008

Henry Liu and Justin Edelson authors of the just released JRuby Cookbook talk about JRuby, the current state of the Java platform, and some of the compelling benefits of integrating a language like Ruby with the Java platform.

First Steps into Rails (on the Mac)

By Simon St. Laurent
November 24, 2008

Once you have Rails installed, it's time to explore the foundations of how Rails applications are put together. It's not quite programming yet - it's more looking around to figure out how the pieces fit together.

Installing Rails on Ubuntu Hardy Heron (Server)

By Simon St. Laurent
November 20, 2008

Want to install a Rails development environment on a bare-bones Ubuntu server setup? It's not that hard.

Installing Rails on Hardy Heron (Desktop)

By Simon St. Laurent
November 19, 2008

One of the most difficult parts of the tech review for Learning Rails was Chapter 1, installing Rails. There are way too many operating systems and choices within those operating systems to provide a straightforward explanation. To help deal with...

Swapping Custom Views with RubyCocoa

By Eric Berry
October 29, 2008

Learn how to swap custom views using RubyCocoa in your interface.

The Perfect Cloud

By Eric Larson
October 28, 2008

Tim posted about the shape of the could and makes an excellent point regarding the barrier to entry. The essence is that we haven't quite found the sweet spot for deploying apps to the could. This is very true in...

RubyCocoa and NSTables De-Mystified

By Eric Berry
October 17, 2008

Screencast showing how to create a RubyCocoa application which pulls search results from Amazon using their Web API and populates a table.

Testing Rails Partials

By Phlip Plumlee
October 9, 2008

Test Driven Development works best when each test case targets one aspect of a class's interface. So this post will demonstrate a simple and direct way to test a partial without testing the Views, layouts, and Controller actions surrounding it. On very complex projects, this technique keeps your partials decoupled.

The Ever-Dynamic John Lam on Iron Ruby, Open Source and Microsoft

By James Turner
September 29, 2008

John Lam, who heads the Iron Ruby effort at Microsoft, stopped by to tell O'Reilly News all the exciting work going on with dynamic languages at Redmond. John spent some time discussing what makes a language dynamic, what the benefits of dynamic languages are, and how Microsoft is trying to leverage the power of lanaguages such as Ruby inside their CLR framework.

The Present and Future of Ruby and Rails

By chromatic
September 19, 2008

Chad Fowler and Rich Kilmer discuss where Ruby and Rails have gone in the past year, whether RESTful composition obviates the need for ORM, what's interesting in the upcoming world of Ruby and Rails, and how Maglev, Rubinius, and other new Ruby implementations contribute to the world of dynamic languages.

RailsConf Europe Early Registration

By Allison Randal
July 10, 2008

The schedule for RailsConf Europe just went up last week. It's shaping up to be another great conference. A few sessions and tutorials that particularly catch my eye are David Heinemeier Hansson's keynote on Wednesday morning, "Meta-programming Ruby for Fun & Profit" by Neal Ford, "Offline Rails Applications with Google Gears and Adobe AIR" by Till Vollmer, "From Rails Security...

Ruby Cocoa

By Daniel H. Steinberg
June 5, 2008

Hey, you got Ruby in my Cocoa. Mmmm. Two great taste treats.

Microsoft integrates Silverlight, Rails and .NET

By RJ Owen
June 3, 2008

Microsoft recently announced demos of two excited Ruby on Rails developments. The first is a Silverlight application integrated with Ruby on Rails and the second is a demo of Microsoft's .NET Rails implementation, somewhat weirdly named "IronRuby." In this entry we'll discuss the announcement, Microsoft's implementation of Rails, and provide some resources for getting started in your own Rails education.

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