July 13, 2010

PPL30 Day 29: MacRuby

Somehow I missed MacRuby when I covered JRuby and Ruby 1.9.2. (Let’s ignore the fact that I also missed Rubinius completely.) MacRuby is a Ruby implementation on OSX technologies (Obj-C,...

July 11, 2010

PPL30 Day 28: DRb

Today… err, yesterday, I began looking at Distributed Ruby, or DRb. DRb is a system for allowing Ruby processes to communicate with each other. Really, it’s a client/server thing. This...

July 10, 2010

PPL30 Day 27: Emacs

Today I’m risking the label of traitor to try my hand (which I expect will be sore following this exercise) at Emacs. Installation brew install emacs I initially installed the...

July 10, 2010

PPL30 Day 26: Objective-C

This is part of the Peer Pressure Learning 30 series. To learn more about what in the hell that means, see the intro to the series, A Good Time To...

July 09, 2010

PPL30 Day 25: C

Sometimes a review is as important, or perhaps more so, than learning a new thing. That is why the C programming language is on the PPL30 list. I’ve long felt...