A two-part screencast series demonstating two different 3D ruby-processing applications. A slide presentation from 2009 created for the Phoenix Ruby Group is also attached as bonus material. Enjoy! Part 1: Starfield Demo of a 3D starfield simulation written in pure Ruby, running on the JRuby runtime as a nicely packaged .app program for Mac OS [...]
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What If Ruby Had Final Variables Like Java Or Erlang?
January 1st, 2009
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After a long confusing Ruby debate today at OpenRain on the merits of functional, Erlang-esque write-once-read-many variables, I’m going to step onto the podium and just say it… Ruby should get “final” or “const” variables in a similar semantic style to Java, except at runtime. Rather than ramble on for 12 paragraphs explaining exactly how this might work, [...]
J2ME Acronym Cheat Sheet
April 17th, 2007
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Sometimes I think we’ll eventually run out of TLAs (three letter acronyms) in the Java space. Here’s a quick reference for the forgetful.. ABB (Audio Building Block) API (Application Programming Interface) BCC (Bluetooth Control Center) BPWD (W3C Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group) CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) CDC (Connect Device Configuration) CLDC (Connected, Limited Device [...]
JXTA: Not The Solution To Java Peer Discovery
April 14th, 2007
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Only developers with hair should use JXTA, because those with bald or shaven heads won’t have anything to violently rip from their skulls while they develop with it. I have been, and continue to be excited by, JXTA’s potential, but have been very disappointed at the pace at which a project progresses when using it. [...]
