Confreaks

One of the amazing things that we as Ruby developers benefit from, when using JRuby, is the existing ecosystem of Java libraries and platforms for manipulating Big Data. The most famous, and probably of the most use to rubyists is Hadoop and the H...

We are inundated with copious amounts of data day in and day out. We manage volumes of the stuff. We Produce it, archive it, throw it away, and sometimes, if we are lucky, we look at it and we find a story.

This talk is about examining and visu...

Rubygems was created in 2003 and the repository of gems it spawned as a whole holds a history of ruby's usage and the people contributing to ruby. This talk will present an investigation into the anthropology of Ruby through its gems. Who did what...