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Episode #104 - August 20, 2010

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We quickly mention a bunch of results of WhyDay, including releases of Shoes, Hackety Hack, Camping, Kext, and code golf in Ruby, as well as our standard fare of interesting projects like Rid, MongoMatic, a blog post on writing your own daemons in Ruby, an IRC bot framework, Swimlanes (a git visualization tool from Jim Weirich), and of course, the Ruby 1.9.2 release.

This episode is sponsored by New Relic. New Relic gives you performance monitoring, tracking, and reporting of your web applications.

  • NewRelic RPM
  • Whyday
  • Poignant Guide
  • Shoes 3
  • Camping 2.1
  • Hackety Hack 1.0-pre
  • Kaxxt
  • Code Golf
  • RID
  • MongoMatic
  • Skinnky Daemons
  • Cinch
  • Swimlanes
  • Ruby 1.9.2
  • Ruby5

Whyday Jump to Story

Yesterday was Whyday, a day of commemoration and rembrance for Why the Lucky Stiff.

Why was a major influence in the early days of the Ruby community. He disappeared on August 19th, 2009, most likely as a kind of 'performance art'.

In his absense though, he still inspires us. Most of the projects in this podcast are a direct result of his influence. There is no way we could cover every Whyday project release today, so we picked a few notable ones. If you have one you'd like to mention, please leave it as a comment.

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