Cosine Jeremiah and his Musings

I have spent a lot of hours in the past week working with Mephisto. Mephisto is a blogging platform with aims of eventually being a full-fledged CMS. Overall I like it, but I am uncertain if it is a platform I ought to continue working with at this point.
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I just found out that Paul Graham has unleashed Arc upon the world after years and years of teasing us. This is exciting, particularly for what will happen to Ruby. All of the nifty features that make Arc awesome will be extracted into a few Ruby gems in the next 2–4 weeks, and [...]

Are you stuck in a J2EE framework that leaves you feeling like this?
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Why wait? Get out there and get started with Rails today!

In my previous post I introduced the idea of using irb as a desktop calculator. If you are new to Ruby, however, using irb can have the side effect of teaching you Ruby. Everything you type in irb is a Ruby statement. The response you get from irb is the value Ruby [...]

One of the things I love about Ruby is that it comes with irb. It is short for Interactive Ruby, and it is a command line tool to interact with an instance of the Ruby interpreter. To start it up just run irb from the command line (Interactive Ruby is a menu option [...]