Bogosort in ruby

Yesterday, I stumbled across the Bogosort sorting algorithm. The example implementations looked horrible so I tried to implement it in a short and readable way, in Ruby of course. Here is my first and only attempt of a Ruby Bogosort. # Use: ruby bogosort.rb a b c def sorted for i in (0..$array.length-2) return false […]

Web Applications

After being in a radio show (german) about web browsers recently and reading all that hype about client side web applications, I got more and more thinking. I can’t see really the use case now and I wonder if I’m that alone with this opinion. But let me explain my thoughts on it. For now […]

My favourite Ruby (on Rails) Books

I’ve read a couple of Ruby and Ruby on Rails books now and for those who wonder which book is right for them, I want to give recommendations. Ruby Books: My favourite ruby book is the “The Ruby Programming Language” from O’Reillys shelf. It is written by David Flanagan (author of Javascript, The Definitive Guide) […]

Updates, really

I haven’t forgotten my weblog. It’s just that if you have lots of stuff to blog about, you don’t really have time to do it. At least that’s the case here. On monday for example, I booted my very first computer. I was kind of late though so its a pretty decent machine compared to […]