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ThoughtWorks Seminar and Tutorial in Stockholm

over 2 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
September 29th, ThoughtWorks will hold a day of seminars and a tutorial in Stockholm, Sweden. The seminars are free. I will talk about alternative languages...

Tutorial at JAOO about JRuby testing

over 2 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
Just thought I’d mention it here - I’m at JAOO this year and will give a tutorial about testing Java with JRuby. I will be a great tutorial and I hope...

Upcoming talks

over 2 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
There hasn’t been much interesting happening this summer, but the fall is shaping up to be pretty busy. I will be talking at several different conferences...

Charles, Tom and Nick to EngineYard - and the future of JRuby

over 2 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
Most people have already heard the news that Charles, Tom and Nick are going to Engine Yard to work on JRuby. I’ve been asked for my opinion by a few...

Porting Syck - A story of C, parser generators and general ugliness

over 2 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
As mentioned earlier, a few weeks back I decided to port Syck to Java, for the sake of JRuby. I will detail some interesting experiences in this blog post...

New JRuby YAML support with Yecht

over 2 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
A while back I finally got fed up with all our minor YAML incompatibilities. As I’ve been in charge of the YAML support in JRuby for most of the time...

New Hpricot for JRuby

over 2 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
One of the annoying things for JRuby have been lack of recent support for Hpricot. Hopefully that will all be in the past now, or at least in a few days...

Re2j - a small lexer generator for Java

over 2 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
There is a tool called re2c. It’s pretty neat. Basically it allows you to intersperse a regular expression based grammar in comments inside of C code...

Continuous Integration for Ioke with Cruise

over 2 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
I’ve felt the need for this since I put out the CLR version of Ioke, and now I’ve finally managed to make it happen. Even though I’m the only person...

What is eval?

over 2 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
The glib answer to this question would be: “evil”. Of course, that doesn’t really tell us anything new. I wanted to explore the question of where...