Sarah Mei

(With apologies to Zed.) A few of the talks at GoGaRuCo were crowdsourced – anyone who wanted to talk about anything put their title and description up on Uservoice. Folks who registered got 10 votes each, and the top vote-getting talks were accepted and scheduled. Out of this came “CouchDB: Perform Like a Pr0n Star” [...]

I’ve been poking around Ruby’s internals, and I found some cool things about the way Ruby represents integers in memory. Let’s start with the obvious: in Ruby, everything is an object, including integer literals.

It’s pronounced “go-gay-roo-ko.” Did you know? I did not. Also, let it be known that the Swedish-American Hall is awesome. The grand ballroom just needs a huge fire in the middle with a pig roasting and smoke rising up to the rafters. The chairs look like viking thrones! In non-Scandinavian-related coolness, there’s Ritual coffee at [...]