Ruby
Jun 23rd, 2007 by John Gerber
“Penguins mate for life. Which doesn’t really surprise me, ’cause they all look exactly alike. Its not like they’re gonna meet a better-looking penguin someday.”
– Ellen DeGeneres
Normally, I am pleased with myself if I can complete one post a week. Still, I had to put in that extra effort this week in order to get James Turner comic up. The cartoon is bound to become a classic. Well, maybe not among the masses. Okay, maybe just among an elite group of people who can identify languages by the animals on their O’Reilly book covers. Still, that is a pretty special group of people.
Since I am posting a comic strip involving Ruby and Perl, I figured I would add a few pointers of interest. If you are an old time Perl programmer, you will want to check out Jonathan Scott Duff’s posting on, “Everyday Perl 6.” Perlcast, a podcast focus primarily on the Perl programming language, has posted a podcast on “Learning Perl 6.” The presentation was done by Brian D Foy at the Nordic Perl Workshop 2007. Slides along with the audio podcast of the presentation are available.
Not to show favoritism, on the Google Code Blog, they did their fourth podcast where Mark Limber talks on Google SketchUp. To quote the Google SketchUp site:
Developed for the conceptual stages of design, Google SketchUp is a powerful yet easy-to-learn 3D software tool that combines a simple, yet robust tool-set with an intelligent drawing system that streamlines and simplifies 3D design. From simple to complex, conceptual to realistic, Google SketchUp enables you to build and modify 3D models quickly and easily. If you use Google Earth, Google SketchUp allows you to place your models using real-world coordinates and share them with the world using the Google 3D Warehouse.
Ruby is the scripting language that is used in SketchUp. Sorry Perl.
