In this brief interview, Satish Talim of RubyLearning talks to Andrew Boekhoff , author of CongoMongo , a toolkit for using MongoDB with Clojure.
Satish>> Welcome Andrew and thanks for taking out time to share your thoughts. What programming languages have you used seriously?
Andrew>> Seriously: Ruby and Clojure. Less Seriously: C, C++, Java and now: Haskell, Scheme.
Satish>> Why and when did you decide to start working on Clojure?
- Heroku: Our travels continue
- Guillaume Nargeot's Technical Blog: On solving Project Euler - Part 2
- High Scalability: Hot Holiday Scalability Links for 2009
- jaikoo: Starting from scratch
- Ruby Inside: Rails 3.0 Beta: 36 Links and Resources To Get You Going
- Lance: Clojure User's Group in Atlanta
In this brief interview, Satish Talim of RubyLearning talks to Andrew Boekhoff , author of CongoMongo , a toolkit for using MongoDB with Clojure.
Satish>> Welcome Andrew and thanks for taking out time to share your thoughts. What programming languages have you used seriously?
Andrew>> Seriously: Ruby and Clojure. Less Seriously: C, C++, Java and now: Haskell, Scheme.
Satish>> Why and when did you decide to start working on Clojure?
- Heroku: Our travels continue
- Guillaume Nargeot's Technical Blog: On solving Project Euler - Part 2
- High Scalability: Hot Holiday Scalability Links for 2009
- jaikoo: Starting from scratch
- Ruby Inside: Rails 3.0 Beta: 36 Links and Resources To Get You Going
- Lance: Clojure User's Group in Atlanta
…frameworks in other languages (such as Sammy in JavaScript). Satish Talim put together a great piece, 20+ Rubyists are using Sinatra - Do you? , last year that got a good feel for how Sinatra's being used for Web apps both big and small by a collection of Rubyists.
What's New?
As an avid user of Sinatra 0.9, I asked Blake Mizerany what the biggest changes were going to 1.0:
I think the biggest changes are what we cleaned up. Tilt is …
- McKinney Station: Deploying Sinatra Apps on Dreamhost
- MicroISV on a Shoestring: Deploying Sinatra On Ubuntu: In Which I Employ A Secretary
- Engine Yard Ruby on Rails Blog: Using the Rubygems Bundler for Your App
- RubyLearning Blog: Cookie-based Sessions in Sinatra
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #631
- a timocracy of one: interesting new ruby, redis-based background job/queueing choice from the github guys
…interesting posts from a seemingly anonymous UK-based Rails developer! Who are you!?
Jason Seifer - Personal blog of the RailsEnvy podcaster.
Ruby Learning - A blog focused on learning about Ruby, by Satish Talim.
Please also check out June's , July's and August's previous installments.
- DigitalHobbit: iPhone Development is Fun!
- Nikos D.: Migrating to Ruby 1.9 (YARV): Posts you have to read!
- Headius: Introducing Surinx
- SD Ruby Podcast: Episode 058: MacRuby: What's the big deal?
- Alex Young: The End of Religious Wars
- codahale.com: When Formality Works
RubyLearning wrote to a lot of experts, gathering their best tips on Clojure. The tips are still coming in, but here are some to get you started with. Feel free to add your own tips in the comments section or send the same to satishtalim [at] gmail.com . Enjoy!
Baishampayan Ghose
Find him on Twitter . His GitHub a/c.
It's hard to pin point a few good tips because Clojure can do so many things in very nice and ingenious ways, that it's not even funny. Anyway, here are a few:
- Invisible Blocks: Clojure Changing My Mind
- Rails Inside: Screencast: How To Upgrade Your Rails 2 App to Rails 3 in 25 Minutes
- SKORKS: Closures - A Simple Explanation (Using Ruby)
- PaulBarry.com: Infinite Recursion
- Guillaume Nargeot's Technical Blog: On solving Project Euler - Part 2
- How Software is Built: Jason van Zyl - Apache Maven
Many Rubyists today are talking about and exploring Clojure and I wanted to share a list of some popular posts on Clojure from RubyLearning. Enjoy!
And hopefully more to come...
- PaulBarry.com: Infinite Recursion
- Tea-Driven Development: Cuke4Nuke - Cucumber for .NET
- Ruby Inside: MacRuby 0.5 Released: A Significant, Stable Release
- Invisible Blocks: Clojure Changing My Mind
- Guillaume Nargeot's Technical Blog: On solving Project Euler - Part 2
- SKORKS: Closures - A Simple Explanation (Using Ruby)
As a sequel to my post Indian Ruby on Rails Portfolio , I am compiling a list (in alphabetical order of company names) showcasing ROR based websites made by Indian companies .
I'll be updating this page from time to time. If you are the owner / developer of such a website(s), then I would appreciate if you would send me by email ( satish [dot] talim [at] gmail.com ), as much information about the same. Namely:
Name and location of the Indian company making the ROR based websites.
- Jeet's world: Accessing MySql from remote machine in my network
- Home - Leading Ruby on Rails Development and Consulting firm in India - Vinsol: 10 little known ways to find a ruby on rails team for your next project
Satish Talim on Twitter and Facebook .
Japan
Satoshi Asakawa on Twitter and Facebook.
Update
I'll be updating this page from time to time. If you have been associated with RubyLearning in some way or the other and would like your information (Full name, Country of Residence, Twitter Id and / or Facebook Profile URL) displayed here, please post the information here as a comment or email me at satish [dot] talim [at] gmail.com.
Thank …
- RubyFlow - Search for jruby: [ANN] Do YOU want to learn JRuby using Google Wave?
Satish Talim on Twitter and Facebook .
Japan
Satoshi Asakawa on Twitter and Facebook.
Update
I'll be updating this page from time to time. If you have been associated with RubyLearning in some way or the other and would like your information (Full name, Country of Residence, Twitter Id and / or Facebook Profile URL) displayed here, please post the information here as a comment or email me at satish [dot] talim [at] gmail.com.
Thank …
- RubyFlow - Search for jruby: [ANN] Do YOU want to learn JRuby using Google Wave?
Ruby with Shoes Course - 7th Batch
RubyLearning has so far successfully conducted six batches of the Ruby with Shoes course. We are now announcing the 7th batch.
What's Shoes?
The extraordinaire Rubyist "Why The Lucky Stiff" (_why) 1 has been working energetically on Shoes , a Ruby Cross Platform GUI App Toolkit. Shoes is simple and straightforward.
If you learn Shoes and Ruby programming , your programming life would become much more enjoyable!
- AdminMyServer Blog: ruby pong with shoes and bloopsaphone
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #573
- English - AkitaOnRails.com: The Best Environment for Rails on Windows