Portland, Oregon, is a city that takes pride in managing its resources wisely. So, maybe it's natural that this article describes how to make computer resources and legacy CGI scripts much more ...

Scripting languages are the hot technology today for application and Web development — no longer the backwater afterthought of the early days running in a pokey interpreter. Nor are scripting ...

Every few years something significant happens in the land of computer programming. In my opinion the Ruby computer language is such a landmark. Over the years I have seen programmer productivity go up ...

When Apple announces major new versions of macOS, the company often includes details not just about the next release but also about what will come further in the future. The first macOS 10.15 Beta ...

Perl, Python, and Ruby modules can ease development for large projects, but Bash is simpler and better for many tasks Last week I talked a bit about how best to protect against the vagaries of human ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Illustrating the power of the Ruby scripting language, consulting engineer Phil Tomson has used it to create the open-source Ruby hardware-description language (RHDL). Not currently ...

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Chances are, you do some boring, repetitive data-related tasks at work — ones a computer could easily do, if only it was told how. “At one desk, a tester is entering test data into a database by hand.

Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. It was also influenced by Eiffel and Lisp. Ruby ...