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Chronic 0.3.0 Released: Improved Natural Language Date/Time Parsing

Tom Preston-Werner has pushed out version 0.3.0 of Chronic, the popular natural language date and time parsing library for Ruby. It's a significant release because the last was 0.2.3 back in July 2007! Grab it now with gem install chronic

RPCFN: Interactive Fiction (#9)

Michael Fogus talks to RubyLearning’s Clojure Course Participants

On the eve of the first free, online “Clojure 101” course, Michael Kohl of RubyLearning caught up with Michael Fogus, author of the forthcoming book – The Joy of Clojure. In this interview, Michael Fogus talks to the Clojure 101 course participants on Clojure.

phpBB on GitHub

The phpBB team recently completed a move from SVN to Git and are now hosting their repositories on GitHub!

I remember phpBB being one of my first experiences with online programming — trying to setup a forum for my now dead drumming site.

Clojure 101: A New Course

GitHub Rebase #38

Welcome to Rebase 38. Suggestions for projects to cover are always welcome, check out the criteria here. In the meantime, check out this preview of some neat visualizations using the GitHub API of how developers are connected:

NCSA Mosaic on GitHub

This is just great: NCSA Mosaic on GitHub at http://github.com/alandipert/ncsa-mosaic.

This now joins the Quake source as one of my favorite old school projects.
(Hat tip flangy.)

GitHub Drinkup, Peninsula Edition

It’s about time – the GitHub drinkup is moving to the peninsula! One week only, don’t miss out! If you’re a peninsula dweller like me, join me at CityPub in Redwood City at 8pm next Thursday, March 11. It’s right by the CalTrain stop, so you have no excuse:

In-depth JRuby Q&A: What Makes JRuby Tick in 2010?

JRuby is undoubtedly the most mature of the alternative Ruby implementations. Supporting Ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.1 (mostly!) and JIT compilation, JRuby is already in use in mission critical Ruby apps and runs scarily fast on the JVM. In this interview with JRuby core member, Charles Nutter, we dig deep into what makes JRuby tick.

Unobtrusive, yet explicit

A few weeks ago I started a new side project (a string-figure catalog, not yet ready for an audience, sadly), and I figured it would be a good opportunity to dabble in the new goodies in Rails 3. It’s been a fun experience, for the most part, but I’ll save my “wins and fails” for a separate post.

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