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Ruby, Squeak and Alice

Posted on November 10th, 2006 by Carel

Filed under Technology

A few months ago my 11 year old son asked me to teach him to program. Now I’ve tried this before — last time I pointed him to the Squeak website and said go forth and program. Unfortunately it wasn’t that easy. So over the last couple of months we’ve tried the following environments: Ruby [...]

Ruby on Rails – Build a blogging engine in 15 minutes!

Posted on August 30th, 2006 by Carel

Filed under Apple, SAP, Technology

With Ruby on Rails (RoR) it is possible to develop a blogging engine in 15 minutes. Watch this 15 minute video demo-ing RoR. The Ruby language was developed by Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz) in 1994. According to Matz: “Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process [...]