Due to difficulties getting Cucumber working on three different operating systems and various versions of Ruby gems, the next two sections were rather accelerated. The next topic that Cory discussed involved creating client applications with a basic UI tool kit called Shoes. Shoes runtime. Working shoe applications. The applications end in .shy. Three shoe applications [...]
This contains only the first iteration of the hand-ons learning session based on my notes from Cory’s presentation and additional information from Tom S. who was sitting next to me sprinkled with my opinion. There was much more mentioned in the session. Bear in mind that this is new person’s perspective using Rails and Cucumber. [...]
A Day of Ruby discussion and hands-on learning event was held in downtown Tampa on Saturday May 16th. Marc B. brought this event to my attention. Being a free event where I can learn something new compelled me not to sleep in on a Saturday morning. My last glance at Ruby was a year and [...]
Binary trees are a data structure that I first encountered in a Turbo Pascal course. Later encounters with trees, not necessarily binary in nature, involved primitive text file compression. Binary means having two of something. Binary numbers have one of two values: 0 or 1. Binary trees can have up to two children, a left [...]