Engine Yard, Inc.

S01E32: Ian Dees

July 21, 2011

Ian Dees discusses the Using JRuby book and JRubyConf.

• 0:00 Introduction
• 0:55 How Ian got involved with Ruby
• 2:15 Authoring books
• 2:55 The "Using JRuby" book
• 9:55 The JRubyConf conference series
• 10:35 Ian’s presentation at JRubyConf 2011
• 11:45 JRuby as a vehicle to explore computer science
• 18:40 The future of JRuby
• 19:50 Warbler
• 21:15 Why JRuby?

Links: "Using JRuby Bringing Ruby to Java":http://pragprog.com/book/jruby/using-jruby "Tektronix":http://www.tek.com/ "Ola Bini":http://olabini.com/ "Bitescript":http://rubygems.org/gems/bitescript "Mirah":http://www.mirah.org/ "Scala":http://www.scala-lang.org/ "OSCON 2011":http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011 "Open Source Bridge 2011":http://opensourcebridge.org/ "Keavy McMinn's Must Try Harder presentation from JRubyConf 2010.":http://vimeo.com/groups/87639/videos/16517560 "JRubyConf 2011":http://jrubyconf.com/ "JRubyConf Talks":http://jrubyconf.com/#talks "Redcar":http://redcareditor.com/ "Warbler":http://kenai.com/projects/warbler/pages/Home "TorqueBox":http://torquebox.org/