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Fast Bytecodes for Funny Languages
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Fast Bytecodes for Funny Languages

Summary In this presentation from the JVM Languages Summit 2008, Cliff Click discusses how to optimize generated bytecode for running on the JVM. Click analyzes and reports on Java, Scala, Clojure,... read more »

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RubyConf 2008: Better Ruby through Functional Programming
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RubyConf 2008: Better Ruby through Fu...

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Functional Programming (FP) has become interesting lately as the most robust way to write highly-concurrent applications. However, applying functional ideas can benefit your applications in other w... read more »

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RubyConf 2008: Fear of Programming
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RubyConf 2008: Fear of Programming

We developers spend a lot of time talking about how to improve technically at our craft, how to write better code, how to be more productive when we're writing code. But what about when we don't fe... read more »

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RubyConf 2008: The Fall and Rise of Dynamic Languages
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RubyConf 2008: The Fall and Rise of D...

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A war is being waged between the Empire and the Rebel Alliance. The imperial forces are laboring tirelessly to stamp out such dangerous ideas as late-binding, and automatic memory management. Based... read more »

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RubyConf 2008: How I Learned to Love JavaScript
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Using Johnson (github.com/jbarnette/johnson), we'll show how tightly Ruby and JavaScript can be integrated. We'll demonstrate seamless, bidirectional crossing of the language/runtime barrier. We'll... read more »

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RubyConf 2008: Using Metrics to Take a Look at Your Code
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RubyConf 2008: Using Metrics to Take ...

It's an interesting fact of human nature that you can't do something every day and not secretly suspect that you're good at it. Which goes a long way toward explaining why everyone thinks they writ... read more »

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RubyConf 2008: How Ruby Can Be Fast: A Tour of Dynamic VM Technologies
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RubyConf 2008: How Ruby Can Be Fast: ...

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All Rubyists know that in its current state, Ruby is slow. And our usual answer to critics is "it's fast enough." But there's no reason Ruby can't be a really fast language. New VMs are m... read more »

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RubyConf 2008: What All Rubyist Should Know About Threads
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RubyConf 2008: What All Rubyist Shoul...

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We have been living in the shadow of Moore's law for many years. Transister sizes keep shrinking and processor speeds keep increasing. But technology seems to have hit a brick wall. Clock cycles ha... read more »

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RubyConf 2008: Crate – packaging your ruby application
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RubyConf 2008: Crate – packaging your...

Behind Crate is the idea that a standalone ruby application can be formed into a simple installable application to just drop on a machine and run. An existing ruby interpreter is not required. A Cr... read more »

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RubyConf 2008: Writing Code That Doesn't Suck: Interface Oriented Design
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RubyConf 2008: Writing Code That Does...

Buzzwords like BDD, TDD, ATDD, RDD, and DDD may have convinced you that writing great, maintainable code is just a matter of following a few simple instructions. All you need to do, you've been tol... read more »

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