In a vague attempt at furthering the Mirah cause I have written up a little post outlining the major advantages of the application of loverly ruby syntax to the Java infrastructure. It may be an interesting read to people who haven't yet taken the plunge and tried mirah for themselves, especially those trapped in Java land for the day job.

I just wrote a quick article how to easily construct reliable distributed ruby applications simply by exploiting the world of 'enterprise' solutions for our own game.

It isn't exactly ruby related but it's important for us all in the open source community. Google has released VP8 under the name WebM and it aims to become the primary video codec in use on the web!

Words is an easy-to-use interface to the WordNet® lexical ontology. There are numerous interfaces out there however they appear to either be unstable, slow or make us of out-dated / distribution specific libraries many lacking ruby-like syntax. Words provides both rovides both a pure ruby and an FFI powered backend over the same API. The FFI backend uses Tokyo Cabinet and rufus-tokyo to provide cross ruby distribution compatability and blistering speed. The pure ruby interface operates through a ruby optimised index along with the standard files provided by WordNet®.