Joe Petviashvili

The interviewer hauled out FizzBuzz and asked to solve it. It took a minute to stop laughing.

But the fix is giving segfaults :(

Oh, I forgot to tell you about this other new feature that we have...

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"assert{ 2.0 }", a Ruby library, replaces most assert_* functions by one function: "assert". You can pass it a block to assert it's true, and it will automatically generate intelligent error messages when the assert fails.

_why the lucky stiff is making some changes to Shoes because a better programmer than him came to him in a dream and told him to.

It's not long because it was written in java. It's long because it was written by a java programmer.

Thrift is a software framework for scalable cross-language services development. It combines a powerful software stack with a code generation engine to build services that work efficiently and seamlessly between C++, Java, Python, PHP, and Ruby. Thrift was developed at more...

MIDI code generators for Ruby

Io pays obeisance to minimalism, but somehow cracks the door open on a wild and uncouth gymnasium of meta magic. And it goes so much deeper than these examples. I don’t know if Io is trying to be rebellious, but more...

At my local Barnes and Noble, there is a huge wall of Java books just waiting to tip over and crush me one day. And one day it will. At the rate things are going, one day that bookcase will more...

“You are not opening the Object, Person or Nil classes to add an andand method, nor are you creating a weird temporary BlankSlate object. Rewrite does its thing by rewriting Ruby code: it performs syntactic metaprogramming, much as Lisp macros more...

The idea was that you could provide the same block of text with a different watermark to each user. So if the text then showed up later on a blog, you could tell who had “leaked” the text.

Shoes is a very informal graphics and windowing toolkit. It's for making regular old apps that run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It's a blend of my favorite things from the Web, some Ruby style, and a sprinkling more...