Category Archives: Ruby

The forgotten art of error checking

Posted on 2010-06-17 by Gustavo Niemeyer

I was just rambling randomly yesterday, in the usual microblogging platforms, about how result checking seems to be ignored or done badly. The precise wording was: It’s really amazing how little attention error handling receives in most software development. Even … Continue reading →

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MagLev and distributed VMs

Posted on 2008-06-01 by Gustavo Niemeyer

Avi Bryant is working on MagLev, a Ruby interpreter, based on Gemstone’s Smalltalk VM, with some very amazing features, like transactioned objects distributed across several VMs: The integrated VMs, cache, and storage conspire to create an illusion that global state … Continue reading →

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