Ruby

07.16.08

American Made
Ruby, Conversation (0)
I'm working on a new project now that I have some free time. I'm experimenting with a Ruby on Rails blogging web application similar to Wordpress. It's called typo. So far I'm pleased. I'm using typo on a new project called American Made. The domain name is actually america.nmade.info because "americanmade.info" (without the dot after america) was already taken. The goal of the website is to give recommendations of products made in the United States of America (so says the subtitle). The unique feature of this website is that all featured products are put into a "State" category to identify which ...
03.07.07

Speaking Ruby with a Lisp
Programming, Ruby, Lisp (0)
While I have decided to use SICP as a textbook to learn to program, I am in no way planning to use the Lisp dialect Scheme for my everyday programming. I will use SICP as a learning tool to stretch my mind and then apply what I learn using the Ruby language. Ruby is very Lisp-like. Matz, the creator of Ruby, intentionally borrowed many ideas from Lisp when creating Ruby. As I go through SICP, I'll be "translating" many of the problems into Ruby. Here's an example of how much Ruby can resemble Lisp. Disclaimer: I'm just beginning to learn to program ...

Matthew