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My thoughts on Facebook's new PHP to C++ translator

A short introduction into the usage of Ruby and Hpricot to parse, analyze a html/xhtml document, extract data and traverse by XPath

This is the third part of my series: "Why ruby" - this time I quickly run through using method arguments, their types and some examples.

Let's go on with diving into the beauties of ruby - this time check out how elegant blocks and closures and their first-class support in ruby can make our codes.

This is part one of a forthcoming series about ruby - and why I love it. This first episode focuses on general ideas, concepts and philosophy about ruby and a gentle introduction to its class system.

Today I take a look at the concept of continuation, its implementation in ruby and some examples.

As the release of php 5.3 is nigh, let's take a look and see what the php guys have messed up erm.. improved this time. The world of the interpreted langues had passed by php a long time ago, can this old dog learn a few new tricks? I hope so. I work with php on a daily basis, and I don't like it - its current state. Anyone who have written some real world ruby or python code can see what I mean - php just "sucks", it feels heavy and bound, sometimes it's just a pain in the ass. This of course doesn't mean php isn't one of the best platforms for web development...  yes, I say platform, not a language. Anyway, let's see what we've got here.

How do you handle a massive number of fulltext searches? MySQL? Been there, done that. It’s a no-go for average servers. PostgreSql with Tsearch2? See a nice solution cooked from ruby, thin, memcached and sphinx.