Author Archives: ianmacd

Dinner with Dave Thomas and a bunch of other Ruby users was good fun. The second meeting will be held next Sunday at Pizza Chicago in Palo Alto, where we’ll hopefully decide on a name for our motley crew. Dave … Continue reading →

I’m having dinner with Dave Thomas tonight, one of the authors of The Pragmatic Programmer and Programming Ruby, a.k.a. the pick-axe book. Dave’s coming into Google on Tuesday to give an introductory talk on the Ruby programming language. I wonder … Continue reading →

This week, I released my first piece of Ruby code to the outside world. Ruby/Google is a Ruby interface to the Google Web API that was released earlier this week. If you haven’t already looked at the Google Web API, … Continue reading →

United States: Je naait ‘t steeds Coincidence? Toeval?

Allemachtig, nog maar 161 dagen tot de huwelijk. My Ruby hacking continues apace. I’m writing a system to write DSA keys into a MySQL database for account management purposes. This uses the Ruby DBI and is proving very educational. I … Continue reading →