Unicode
The appearance of ruby1.9 brings Ruby into the main stream of programming languages with its support for Unicode, and it represents
a major step towards making handling text as easy and familiar as all the other aspects of our favorite programming language. We’ll take a
look at why that’s so. While we’ll get into some of the Unicode jargon and technicalities (UTF-8 vs UTF -16, normalization forms, etc), our
main goal will be more general: What’s so great about Unicode? How isit changing the face of internet? You too can learn to ♥ Unicode.
About Patrick
I have always been a (human) language geek at heart, and most of my work has gradually shifted from being purely linguistic towards
computational and statistical approaches to language. I have worked in teaching English, natural language search, and machine translation
research. My current work revolves around bringing more human translation to the internet. My research blog is online at http://blogamundo.net/dev
Unix Command Line Productivity Tips
The Unix command line offers great features that are often overlooked in this GUI dominated software world. Unix’s time tested commands each do one thing well. Connecting them via chaining, scripting, and redirection enables the creation of powerful and repeatable compound commands that would be prohibitively time consuming and error prone with a GUI . Adding more advanced expertise in the Unix command line to your toolset can substantially increase your power and productivity as a software developer.
The slides are available online at http://www.slideshare.net/keithrbennett/unix-command-line-productivity-tips.
About Keith Bennett
I’ve been writing software since the early 80’s, mainly using C, C++, and Java, but also exploring other languages such as Ruby, Python, and Erlang, and now focusing exclusively on them. Always looking for paths to greater productivity, I embraced Linux several years ago as a great development environment. These days I do most of my work on a Mac, but because of OS X ’s Unix ancestry, I continue to enjoy most of what I loved about Linux, with a whole lot added to it.
My LinkedIn page is at http://www.linkedin.com/in/keithrbennett, and my blog (only a travel blog at the moment) is at http://keithrbennett.wordpress.com/.
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