Changelog Interviews

Ruby 1.9, Nokogiri, Tender Lovemaking

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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

    • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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