From: Mikkel Bruun Date: 2001-11-16T06:18:23+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:25334] Re: Topic ideas for an upcoming series of a rticles featuring Ruby? One thing that still amazes me about ruby is the drb package.... distributed objects in four lines of code...just keep repeating those for 3-5 articles ;-) seriously, distribution and or webservices in ruby, would be a killer! could even include a wsdl generator for soap?? Mikkel -----Original Message----- From: Curt Hibbs To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org Sent: 15-11-2001 20:01 Subject: [ruby-talk:25299] Re: Topic ideas for an upcoming series of articles featuring Ruby? That's a good point. Could you tell us who the target audience is going to be. Curt -----Original Message----- From: Vincent Foley [mailto:gnuvince@yahoo.ca] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 10:59 AM To: ruby-talk ML Subject: [ruby-talk:25298] Re: Topic ideas for an upcoming series of articles featuring Ruby? Depends who will most likely read these articles I guess. If system administrators are your target, then maybe an application to manage some task could prove be could (like adding 100 users very fast. Of course this can be done with a bash script, but I'm only making suggestions). On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 03:19:19AM +0900, Colin Steele wrote: > > I've been asked to write a short series of articles (3-5ish) featuring > Ruby. The series will feature the development of an application in > Ruby. I have a few ideas for the application, but would love to hear > what y'all think would be good topics. > > Bear in mind a few characteristics that an application well-suited to > this purpose would possess: > > 1) Scope. Application can be developed in the length of the > series. (3-5 articles of ~1200 words each.) > > 2) Ruby Character. The application should highlight Ruby's strengths. > > 3) Utility. The completed application should be of sufficient utility > or value that it might spur the reader to download and install Ruby > solely so that they can use this application. > > The ideal application for this series would possess all of these > traits, but the first two are most important. > > So, what do you folks think? What would you like to see this series > focus on? > > -- > Colin Steele > colin@colinsteele.org / www.colinsteele.org / www.rubycookbook.org > > > From "The Hacker's Dictionary": > garbage collect: vi. (also `garbage collection', n.) See {GC}. > -- Vincent Foley-Bourgon Homepage: http://darkhost.mine.nu:81