Monthly Archives: January 2011
3 Browser Based Editors to Watch
In the last couple of weeks, there has been a fair amount of talk about three web based editors. Google has started embeding CodeMirror into Google Project Hosting, IBM is developing Orion, and Mozilla is merging Bespin/SkyWriter into Ace, Cloud9’s … Continue reading
Filed under development, Web Development
The Strange Ruby Splat
As of ruby 1.9, you can do some pretty odd things with array destructuring and splatting. Putting the star before an object invokes the splat operator, which has a variety of effects. First we’ll start with some very useful examples, … Continue reading
Filed under development, ruby
Getting to Know the Ruby Standard Library – Delegator
Today we will examine ruby’s implementation of the Proxy pattern, with the Delegator class. We have already seen and example of it in use with WeakRef. A Delegator can be used when you want to intercept calls to some object … Continue reading
Getting to Know the Ruby Standard Library – WeakRef
Once again, we shall dive into the depths of ruby’s standard library and fish WeakRef out. First we’ll talk about garbage collection, then try WeakRef out, and then investigate how it works. In the course of a normal script’s execution, … Continue reading
