http://www.fngtps.com Audio and video from Fingertips. en Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:34:00 +0200 http://media.fngtps.com/audio/2006/rstm01.png http://www.fngtps.com Thijs van der Vossen Audio and video from Fingertips. no Thijs van der Vossen thijs@fngtps.com no Memoization is a technique for speeding up your code by caching the results of method calls. In this episode Norbert shows how to implemented memoization in Ruby and how you can use it. http://media.fngtps.com/rubybanter/2007/004/ Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:43:00 +0200 http://media.fngtps.com/rubybanter/2007/004/rubybanter004.m4v Norbert Crombach, Manfred Stienstra, Thijs van der Vossen Memoization is a technique for speeding up your code by caching the results of method calls. In this episode Norbert shows how to implemented memoization in Ruby and how you can use it. no 5:52 In Ruby the & character maps to the to_proc method. In this episode Manfred shows what you can do with it and how it works. http://media.fngtps.com/rubybanter/2007/003/ Thu, 5 Jul 2007 15:06:00 +0200 http://media.fngtps.com/rubybanter/2007/003/ Norbert Crombach, Manfred Stienstra, Thijs van der Vossen In Ruby the & character maps to the to_proc method. In is episode Manfred shows what you can do with it and how it works. no 4:27 The sort method in Ruby uses the boat operator, sometimes called ‘spaceship’, to compare object instances. In this episode Manfred shows how you can make your objects sortable by defining the boat operator. http://media.fngtps.com/rubybanter/2007/002/ Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:04:00 +0200 http://media.fngtps.com/rubybanter/2007/002/ Norbert Crombach, Manfred Stienstra, Thijs van der Vossen The sort method in Ruby uses the boat operator, sometimes called ‘spaceship’, to compare object instances. In this episode Manfred shows how you can make your objects sortable by defining the boat operator. no 5:19 Function composition is a common concept in functional programming languages. In this first episode of ‘Ruby Banter’ Norbert shows how you can do this in Ruby. http://media.fngtps.com/rubybanter/2007/001/ Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:34:00 +0200 http://media.fngtps.com/rubybanter/2007/001/ Norbert Crombach, Manfred Stienstra, Thijs van der Vossen Function composition is a common concept in functional programming languages. In this first episode of ‘Ruby Banter’ Norbert shows how you can do this in Ruby. no 7:48 Avi Bercovich talks about his Silicon Graphics O2 and the classic car effect. http://www.fngtps.com/2006/08/my-computer-is-a-sgi-o2 Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:34:00 +0200 http://www.fngtps.com/2006/08/my-computer-is-a-sgi-o2 Thijs van der Vossen Avi Bercovich talks about his Silicon Graphics O2 and the classic car effect. no 10:51 The lack of Unicode support in Ruby is a problem for Rails applications. Julian ‘Julik’ Tarkhanov talks about how he developed a very nice way to properly handle Unicode data in Rails. http://www.fngtps.com/2006/06/rails-show-and-tell-talks#rstm01-unicode_in_rails Wed, 28 Jun 2006 20:30:00 +0200 http://www.fngtps.com/2006/06/rails-show-and-tell-talks#rstm01-unicode_in_rails Julian ‘Julik’ Tarkhanov The lack of Unicode support in Ruby is a problem for Rails applications. Julian ‘Julik’ Tarkhanov talks about how he developed a very nice way to properly handle Unicode data in Rails. yes 35:37 Flurin Egger from DigitPaint talks about the development of EntopicMail, a Rails application for mailing newsletters that’s currently in use at organisations like Philips, NEN and the dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. http://www.fngtps.com/2006/06/rails-show-and-tell-talks#rstm01-mailing_newsletters Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:26:00 +0200 http://www.fngtps.com/2006/06/rails-show-and-tell-talks#rstm01-mailing_newsletters Flurin Egger Flurin Egger from DigitPaint talks about the development of EntopicMail, a Rails application for mailing newsletters that’s currently in use at organisations like Philips, NEN and the dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. no 15:54 Simon de Haan from Eight Media talks about why they choose Django and not Rails as their default web development framework. http://www.fngtps.com/2006/06/rails-show-and-tell-talks#rstm01-django Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:26:00 +0200 http://www.fngtps.com/2006/06/rails-show-and-tell-talks#django Simon de Haan Simon de Haan from Eight Media talks about why they choose Django and not Rails as their t web development framework. no 16:23 Rien Swagerman from Resource Studio talks about their experiences with building a CMS on Rails that’s tailored to the needs of his design studio. http://www.fngtps.com/2006/06/rails-show-and-tell-talks#rstm01-content_management Tue, 4 Jul 2006 16:02:00 +0200 http://www.fngtps.com/2006/06/rails-show-and-tell-talks#rstm01-content_management Rien Swagerman Rien Swagerman from Resource Studio talks about their experiences with building a CMS on Rails that’s tailored to the needs of his design studio. no 22:22 Andy Lo A Foe shows how to connect your Rails project to legacy Java and PHP applications using XML-RPC, SOAP and REST-style web services. http://www.fngtps.com/2006/06/rails-show-and-tell-talks#rstm01-web_services Thu, 6 Jul 2006 09:54:01 +0200 http://www.fngtps.com/2006/06/rails-show-and-tell-talks#rstm01-web_services Andy Lo A Foe Andy Lo A Foe shows how to connect your Rails project to legacy Java and PHP applications using XML-RPC, SOAP and REST-style web services. no 23:03 Martin Lloyd from Greenpeace International Application Development Team gives a short overview of the work they've done with Rails and Django. http://www.fngtps.com/2006/06/rails-show-and-tell-talks#rstm01-greenpeace Thu, 6 Jul 2006 09:56:13 +0200 http://www.fngtps.com/2006/06/rails-show-and-tell-talks#rstm01-greenpeace Martin Lloyd Martin Lloyd from Greenpeace International Application Development Team gives a short overview of the work they've done with Rails and Django. no 04:11