Need a new Ruby or Rails job? They're getting posted daily on jobs.rubynow.com but we've got 8 special ones of our own that have come in via the Ruby Inside jobs board. Jobs this month come from the United Kingdom and the US and, as is proving typical, are Rails heavy.

When I was first getting started with Ruby, I heard a lot of talk about blocks, and how you could “cast” them to Procs by using the & operator when calling methods. Last week, in comments about my last post (Ruby is NOT a Callable Oriented Language (It’s Object Oriented)), I heard that claim again.

Managing software packages on Unix has always been, to put it politely, a giant pain, and most Linux distributions are built around the different ways we’ve all been trying to alleviate that pain. In this post, I’ll walk you through Homebrew, a fantastic new option for package management made simple.

Introductory interface talks are boring. More importantly, by neccessity, they are the same old content recycled. And recycled uselessly, to no end.

Because if the audience members were interested in interface design, they would already know the content of the talk. Or, to put it another way, if they didn't already know the content of the talk, they clearly didn't care.

So when I gave a talk last week at the Italian Perl Conference, in Pisa, Italy, I didn't give the type of introductory interface design talk that you'd expect.