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In the past month, I've been working at the Federal Public Service of Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment. I was told to do some input work and fix some bugs in the application I had...

Well, I finished GameR's event handling and timers, and I'm working on the tetris clone to demonstrate its power now. I've got 137 lines of code so far, so that means it's about 65,3% finished ;) This server is going down for maintainance, because I'm stuck with 128MB of RAM and I'm running...

I haven't written anything in a while, so I thought I should let you know that I've been hard at work finishing GameR. Image support is finished, and so is event handling. Next on the list is a Timer class, which will be 100% ruby. When that part is finished, I will release the code as a project...

Ruby is an extremely powerful and flexible language, but Ruby is also slow. According to performance zealots, when you use Ruby, you have signed a pact with the devil where you agreed to trade off pure effeciency for simplicity. It's a bit more complex than that though, because 90% of the time,...

Yesterday, I attended Javapolis 2006 along with a few friends. Javapolis is one of the biggest Java conferences worldwide. With the exception of the rebellious Microsoft stand, everyone was there to share their love for Java, and even though I'm not a huge fan of Java, I must say that I like what...