Some times, you want to be able to launch a Windows Command file from a Ruby script. This is the easy way to do it. 1 2 h = Hash.new z = h[key] || some_default </notextile> In all honesty, I ...
I like Mermaid but I find the rendered diagrams do not look at pretty as some of the other tools, so I set out to find out more on how the diagrams could be styled to look different. In this post, ...
Recently, I have taken a lot of interest in using C4 models for architecture, specifically using Structurizr to model architecture using C4 models and rendering the diagrams interactively. This pos...
The first series of Learning by Reversing examines a Ruby native gem to understand how it works. Part 7 examines how native code is documented. Previously, in this series, we have had: Part 1 ...
If you need to show a piece of Liquid markup in a code sample in Jekyll, you need to escape it. The way to do it is to enclose it within another tag raw and then end that with endraw so that it is ...
Recently, I have taken a strong interest in Diagrams as Code and specifically, I have been looking at Mermaid, Structurizr and C4 models. I want to be able to include some diagrams in this blog but...
Ruby is a dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write (from the Ruby web site). On Chri...
Every year, I receive messages and see numerous posts debating whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie. Every year, I respond with the same messages and the strong conviction that it is indeed so. Th...
Just over six years back, I wrote up my 6 tips for travel, calendars and time zones to share what I have found to be helpful while travelling. When travel resumed after COVID-19 and I started to tr...
Rails 7.1 was released a couple of days back and as a Ruby user primarily on Windows, I was keen to see if it works and runs on Windows. Thanks to the stellar work of everyone involved, it just wor...
The first series of Learning by Reversing examines a Ruby native gem to understand how it works. Part 6 examines how the benchmark is run to compare the performance of the native version with the o...
The first series of Learning by Reversing examines a Ruby native gem to understand how it works. Part 5 digs looks at the C code needed to interface with the Ruby code. Previously, in this series, ...
The first series of Learning by Reversing examines a Ruby native gem to understand how it works. Part 4 digs into the development Makefile and how it supports different activities during developmen...
The first series of Learning by Reversing examines a Ruby native gem to understand how it works. Part 3 continues the exploration by looking at what is included in the gem and how it is set up so t...
In Part 1 , we looked at the background to the gem that we are going to explore and saw how the gem works, and also how to change, rebuild and install the gem locally. Part 2 explains how the gem g...
In this series of posts, I want to look at how to create a native gem for Ruby in C. Actually, it would be more accurate to say – I want to look at how a native gem has been created in C for ...
In this series of posts, I want to look at how to create a native gem for Ruby in C. Actually, it would be more accurate to say – I want to look at how a native gem has been created in C for ...
This is a short note for me to remember how I got the fantastic open source FreeMind mind mapping software running on Windows 10 using OpenJDK instead of the Oracle JDK. It seems like FreeMind is r...
Ruby is a dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write (from the Ruby web site). On Chri...
For a while, I have wanted to put down my thoughts on how we should behave when providing support to the users of our systems if an important issue has been found. More specifically, these ideas co...
Rails 7 brought Hotwire and StimulusJS into the forefront. I have been meaning to spend some time on it and had bookmarked these sites or tutorials. This post is just a collection of bookmarks that...
I keep forgetting how to create a link to a part of a page using Textile Markup and have to look it up every time I need it. So, I’m putting this short post here so that I remember. Backgroun...
I was surprised to see a question on the GitHub tracker of RubyInstaller2 on how to uninstall RubyInstaller2 on Windows. I had not expected it to be a big problem. This post just quickly summarises...
I watch a fair amount of television (well, technically, streaming video on apps) and recently, I watched (and really enjoyed) 24: Japan – the Japanese remake of the American 24 franchise. It ...
This post is a collection of links and resources where you can access and find images, sounds, etc. for your next presentation or creative pursuit such as creating your desktop wallpaper. © S...