Yurii Rashkovskii's Blog

I’m going to be in Nice, FR from Mon (Jul 2) till Fri (Jul 6). Any Railsers/Ioists/etc. around? :) I’ve found very few on WWR :)

I’m in Copenhagen now. And Rubyists/Railsers/Ioists/Lispers/etc. around having nothing to do this evening or tomorrow morning?

I’ve presented Lilu in Oslo today, you can go through slides I’ve used

For those who are interested in meeting to talk about interesting things [1], my plan for the next week is:

• Jun 26 10AM: I arrive to Oslo (flying from Stavanger), already planned to talk with irb.no folks
• Jun 27 9AM: I arrive to Copenhagen
• Jun 28 5PM: I arrive to Amsterdam
• Jun 29 8PM: I depart from Amsterdam to Stavanger through Copenhagen

Quite tight timeframe though I hope it will be saturated.

[1] Interesting things include: Ruby, Rails, any other web frameworks and/or ideas, Io, Lisp, Erlang, Object/prototype databases, joint products development, etc.

I will be talking about Lilu (and may be about some other things as well) at Oslo’s Ruby Tuesday. Can’t wait to meet you all, Oslo Rubyists :)

I’ve decided to revive my unused tumblr account. Here you are: Yurii’s tumblr

I’ve moved to Stavanger, Norway few days ago. I will stay here until Jul 9, with an idea to visit some other cities (like Oslo, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Paris, Strasbourg, or something like this)

You can find my Norwegian photos here

I’m also interested in small IT meetups in Norway or somewhere where I plan to make visit to spend time discussing things lke:

• Ruby
• Rails
• Io
• Erlang
• Lisp
• or anything else that might be interesting

I’ve played with somewhat funny Io programming language.

Its key advantages are prototype object model, messages, pass by expression and simplicity.

As a (intermediate?) result of my toying with it I’ve developed Protonio, framework that currently consits of Protoext (language extensions) & Protospec (BDD spec tool).

Yes, I did it. I have developed near feature-complete spec tool like RSpec. It tooks few days and about 400 lines of code (without self tests). For comparison, RSpec code is more than 5 thousands of lines of code. But I may miss something.

Anyway it was funny. I’m going to continue my experiments.

I remember I was playing with Io about a year ago. I’ve decided to play with it once again. As a result, I’ve published some bits of my code in a Protonio project.

First one is Dict, kind of “real” dictionary for Io that supports arbitrary typed keys and adds some syntax sugar, so you can

{ :a => 1; Lobby => 2 } // or
( :a => 1; Lobby => 2 )

to create your dictionaries. That is extremely useful for Ruby-like methods like:

render(:text => "Some text")

Another one is (unfortunately incomplete, but close to completion) BDD framework called Protospec. I need to finish mocks there, polish it and reach 100% self spec coverage.

Happy hacking!