Explorations of specific application domains, such as UNIX systems programming, or e-commerce.
Category: Applications
Episode #039: Gem Love Part 1
In this, the first of another ongoing occasional series, I revisit an open-source application I started three years ago and begin to rewrite it. Part 1 focuses on building a …
Episode #026: FFI Part 1: Proof of the Concept
With the FFI Gem, building wrappers for C libraries is easier than ever. This episode gives a brief overview of building the beginnings of a Ruby interface to the Linux …
Episode #010: Finding $HOME
How to reliably discover a user's home directory.