RubyConf 2006 wrapup

RubyConf 2006 ended yesterday in Denver. A good summary can be found at this collection of blogs, which includes some question-and-answer transcripts. Ruby has some interesting next-steps in its evolution, as far as compatibility, governance, and virtual machine choices go, but that doesn't matter right now - enjoy version 1.8!


Other notes:

• The Erlang programming language got a lot of attention at the conference because of a retro video clip, Erlang the Movie that they showed at conference kickoff. Watch it yourself and see the Erlang folks editing with Emacs on a Sun-3. If you're still interested, check out a highly scaleable web server Yaws that is written in Erlang.


• Upper or lower-casing a string can't be done realistically in any programming language, in a locale-independent manner while preserving semantics says Tim Bray. "Just don't do it" is his best advice for those tempted to capitalize or lower-case a string. See Tim's presentation for more internationalization / localization topics around Unicode and Ruby.


• Check out open source effort Action Step for a different way of generating Flash content

Posted at 08:32PM Oct 23, 2006 by Peter Schow in Software  |