The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source Ruby 1.9, Nokogiri, Tender Lovemaking (Interview)
Jan 10, 2011
34:05
Wynn caught up with Aaron Patterson, aka @tenderlove, to talk about Ruby 1.9, Nokogiri, and muscle cars.
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Show Notes:
- RubyCommitters.org lists all the folks who hack on the Ruby language
- Nokogiri is a library for parsing XML and HTML
- The origins of tenderlove, Aaron’s online persona
- Hot linking, check it and see. Got a page rank of a hundred and three., to the tune of Hot Blooded
- Mechanize adds an API to any website
- Being a Ruby committer is ‘alright’
- Yugui, release manager for Ruby 1.9
- The current state of rubycommitters.org reminds us of CSS Naked Day
- REXML is a pure Ruby XML processor
- MiniTest is Aaron’s favorite testing framework
- His favorite Ruby 1.9.2 feature is speed
- texticle is a wrapper around Postgress T-Search APIs
- Aaron will be keynoting at Red Dirt Ruby Conf
- FasterCSV from JEG2, one of the organizers for Red Dirt Ruby Conf.
- El Camino, IROC-Z, or Firebird with T-tops are Aaron’s top three dream cars
- For those who have never shaved a Yak and otherwise did not know it.
- Arel is at the heart of Rails 3 ActiveRecord improvements
- Debian’s Ruby maintainer says he’s out
- Ruby Kaigi, the C conference disguised as a Ruby conference
- In addition to Japanese, Aaron also speaks Scheme and Haskell
- Wynn ? CoffeeScript
- Aaron wants to pair program with Jim Weirich
- Wynn suggests Aaron capitalize on Tenderlovemaking by organizing promiscuous pair programming
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