From: Brian Wisti <brianwisti@...>
Date: 2004-09-18T15:57:17+09:00
Subject: Fwd: Moderately Interesting Ruby Exercises

I don't know if this posted earlier today, so I'm resending it.


--- Brian Wisti <brianwisti@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 12:52:51 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Brian Wisti <brianwisti@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Moderately Interesting Ruby Exercises
> To: Ruby Talk <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
> 
> Yep, the geekery continues. Now there are the MIREs, "Moderately
> Interesting Ruby Exercises". Every week, I try to think up something
> kinda cool to do with Ruby. Nothing big is planned. It needs to be
> small enough for me to finish writing about it within a stretch of a
> day or two, so I won't be building any major application frameworks
> unless I get *really* fast at typing. By the end of it, a complete
> and
> vaguely useful Ruby script will have been completed. Oh, and I'll try
> to throw in a couple ideas for things you could do to improve or
> enhance the script.
> 
> The intent is just to chart my thinking process as I go from "ooh,
> what
> if I could do XXX?" to actually having a complete product/tool/toy.
> This way I'm sure to get some daily practice in as well.
> 
>   http://coolnamehere.com/geekery/ruby/mire/
> 
> Today's MIRE is: reading headlines from fark.com on the command line.
> 
>     http://coolnamehere.com/geekery/ruby/mire/0001.html
> 
> Have fun, and please let me know what you think!
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Brian Wisti
> http://coolnamehere.com/
>