From 3fed80d26a6128e67f7d0e7e1b4ef8d0237b7819 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Grimm Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 00:19:52 +1000 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Proposal.new. Ruby: the awesome bits. --- andrew_grimm-Ruby_the_awesome_bits/README.md | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+) create mode 100644 andrew_grimm-Ruby_the_awesome_bits/README.md diff --git a/andrew_grimm-Ruby_the_awesome_bits/README.md b/andrew_grimm-Ruby_the_awesome_bits/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0914664 --- /dev/null +++ b/andrew_grimm-Ruby_the_awesome_bits/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +# Ruby: the awesome parts + +According to Stack Overflow, Ruby on Rails is a more popular programming language than Ruby, with 73 thousand versus 46 thousand questions. As a Plain Old Ruby Object specialist, let me show you some of the parts of Ruby that are often missed by introductory Ruby books, and overlooked by time-pressed Rails developers. I will show you how to be more assertive with fetch rather than [], how to use a more functional programming style, how to delegate more, and what ["1", "2", "3"].map(&method(:Integer)) does. + +- Preferred presentation day: no preference +- Presentation language: English, hopefully with Japanese subtitles. + +## Andrew Grimm +## アンドリュー グリム + +## University of New South Wales. +## ニューサウスウェールズ大学 (UNSW) + +Andrew Grimm is a bioinformatician at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He came across Ruby while using Rails at his previous job associated with the Encyclopedia of Life, but now specialises in Plain Old Ruby Objects. + +He has worked on various projects outside of work. One analyzed why you always end up at "Philosophy" in Wikipedia. Another was a fork of Heckle in which zombies eat your brains unless your unit tests can kill them all. At RubyKaigi 2011 he demonstrated the Small Eigen Collider, which generates random Ruby code that can be run under different implementations of Ruby to check for inconsistencies or bugs. + +バイオインフォマティクスの科学者 + +- [My website](https://andrewjgrimm.wordpress.com/) +- [My twitter](https://twitter.com/#!/andrewjgrimm) +- [Past talk slides](http://www.slideshare.net/agrimm) +- [Past talk videos](https://vimeo.com/channels/332579) +- [Past t-shirt](http://www.zazzle.com/small_eigen_collider_japanese_and_english_text_tshirt-235235813665782515) From 5cc75d7c0750953c3d1c319e5811be2860adced6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Grimm Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 18:42:16 +1000 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Minor improvements to Ruby: the awesome bits proposal. --- andrew_grimm-Ruby_the_awesome_bits/README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/andrew_grimm-Ruby_the_awesome_bits/README.md b/andrew_grimm-Ruby_the_awesome_bits/README.md index 0914664..d05c2d5 100644 --- a/andrew_grimm-Ruby_the_awesome_bits/README.md +++ b/andrew_grimm-Ruby_the_awesome_bits/README.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Ruby: the awesome parts -According to Stack Overflow, Ruby on Rails is a more popular programming language than Ruby, with 73 thousand versus 46 thousand questions. As a Plain Old Ruby Object specialist, let me show you some of the parts of Ruby that are often missed by introductory Ruby books, and overlooked by time-pressed Rails developers. I will show you how to be more assertive with fetch rather than [], how to use a more functional programming style, how to delegate more, and what ["1", "2", "3"].map(&method(:Integer)) does. +According to Stack Overflow, Ruby on Rails is a more popular programming language than Ruby, with 73 thousand versus 46 thousand questions. As a Plain Old Ruby Object specialist, let me show you some parts of Ruby that are often missed by introductory Ruby books, and overlooked by time-pressed Rails developers. I will show you how to be more assertive with Hash#fetch rather than Hash#[], how to use a more functional programming style, how to delegate more, and what ["1", "2", "3"].map(&method(:Integer)) does. - Preferred presentation day: no preference - Presentation language: English, hopefully with Japanese subtitles.