Drawing the Mandelbrot set in Ruby and Haskell
Generating the wonderful Mandelbrot set in Ruby and Haskell – it’s amazing how simple math can give birth to such a sophisticated shape. It’s elegance fits Ruby and Haskell well. Come closer and see the wonders!
Functional ruby – a simple example
Today I’d like to present the implementation of the quicksort algorithm, starting from a naive imperative solution and improving it for elegance and clarity.
Top 5 trends and technologies in software development
In this ever-changing world of software development it’s extremely important to keep up with current technologies, methodologies and trends. It can easily get out of hand though – simply there’s not enough time for anyone to learn all new stuff, work and live a normal life simultaneously. Selection is thus the key, being smartly selective about new things to learn so we won’t miss important stuff but also keep ‘junk’ or unimportant trends out.
I created this small and ever-incomplete list of things I feel we all should pay attention to and practice. Some items could be considered ‘old’ (read: more than a few months old) but still not grasped enough yet.
Dissecting the web with ruby and hpricot
Let me introduce you to an old friend of mine: Hpricot
Hpricot has saved my life many times when I had to parse (x)html documents and extract information programatically. It features a very nice ruby-ish syntax and a blazingly fast xpath-based parser. Combine it with open-uri, and you’re in for a fun ride creating a data-extracting web spider.
A nice example of continuations in ruby
A nice example of using continuations in ruby: exception-continue – related to my post “Continuations and ruby“.
Why ruby? part three – method arguments
Table of contents for Why ruby?
- Why ruby? part one – a classy class system
- Why ruby? part two – blocks and closures
- Why ruby? part three – method arguments
This is the third part of my series: “Why ruby” – this time I quickly run through using method arguments, their types and some examples.
