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Euruko 2008 - Favourite Quotes

Posted by stephan on 30. March 2008

My favourite quotes of the conference: “…the nasty snake language…” (Matz about Python) and “I don’t know how to use Ruby” (Koichi on Ruby). 

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Ruby and Rails in Munich, Germany

Posted by stephan on 20. November 2007

There’s a “Ruby and Rails” meeting in Munich on Monday 26th November, starting at 19:30. The location is the “Augustiner am Dom”.
In case you’re coming for a beer or two, some Bavarian food etc. please drop me an e-mail at phvalue ät mac point com, so we can arrange a reservation.

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EURUKO 2007 is over…

Posted by stephan on 13. November 2007

So the European Ruby Conference is over for 2007 — a big “Thank you!” to everyone involved: Organisers, the Universitiy of Vienna for the great lecture hall and network we were allowed to use, the Viennese who did a great job getting it done, the speakers — keynote or not — and of course all the attendees.

Euruko 2007 - lecture hall entry I was not very surprised to see that Testing, Quality and Beauty of code was a topic again, as was meta programming and really interesting new applications. For more on that including links to the available slides please see the Euruko 2007 Wiki.

If you like to stay connected and watch the photos we shot in Vienna sign up at Facebook and join the “Eurukobackweb” group. There we’ll also try to get “Euruko 2008″ organised. Up to know it’s all open: If you’d like to see it happen in your city or country: Join the group. If you prefer a more sunny season: Join the group. Should you think it should be more organised: Join the group. Or is you “only” like to get in touch with Ruby programmers: Join the group. :)

Hope to see as many of you as possible again next year. And a few more new Eurukoristas. It’s fun, interesting and the coffee was excellent (remember? We were in Vienna).

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TextMate, Ruby & String Interpolation

Posted by stephan on 7. November 2007

While preparing some code example for the Euruko 2007 I noticed a somewhat strange behaviour of TextMate while editing Ruby code. With the Ruby bundle being active, I expect CMD-R (”Apple-R”) to execute the Ruby code a hand. Which it does, unless the text cursor is inside a string interpolation expression.

An example: The first screen shot shows the example code, the cursor being positioned outside the #{ … }.

cursor_outside_srint_interpol.png

After CMD-R is hit, the output is the expected Ruby output as shown below.

outside_result.png

However, if the cursor is inside the string interpolation expression as below

cursor_inside_print_interpol.png

the result of hitting CMD-R doesn’t meet my expectation:


inside_result.png

I wonder why this happens. Apparently the behaviour has to do the the scope the cursor is in. A hint about how to avoid this is greatly appreciated.

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Pre Conference Dinner for Euruko 2007

Posted by stephan on 4. November 2007

The pre conference dinner for the European Ruby Conference 2007 will be on Friday the 9th November 2007 at 20:00.
The location is called Das Lederer.

The address is: A-1080 Wien, Skodagasse 28 / Ecke Lederergasse

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Ruby hits the UK as No. 1

Posted by stephan on 26. February 2007

So Ruby is the #1 in the UK :-)

The Official UK Singles Chart : 25.02.2007:
BBC Radio 1 UK charts

Also available for iPod, BTW.

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A geek test…

Posted by stephan on 23. July 2006

Well, I took it and scored embarrassingly high. :–)


My computer geek score is greater than 100% of all people in the world! How do you compare? Click here to find out!

Anyway it is fun.

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