Garbage Collection and the Ruby Heap is a presentation given by Joe Damato and Aman Gupta at the recent LA Ruby Conference. You only get the slides for now (all 70 of them!), but they're very detailed and can almost work as a standalone concise e-book on Ruby's garbage collection system.

Whenever something's a really "big deal" in the Ruby world, we cover it - even if it makes more sense on Rails Inside (which is now switching to a user contributions model).

Ever since 2005, I’ve been attending and speaking at Ruby events. But the one thing I always wanted to do was run training sessions. Thankfully, over the last couple years, LSRC has allowed me to get my feet wet — but only as one of many excellent choices in a lineup of Ruby’s best and brightest. Until last weekend, I had never participated in professional training event that stood on its own.

Recently – for various degrees of recent that is – people really seem to be into programming language design and development.

Recently – for various degrees of recent that is – people really seem to be into programming language design and development.