I'd need to check with my boss what I can and can't say, and I'm building up a backlog of talks (I've planned one for the next RORO, and have one in mind for the following), but I'll give it a go.
Andrew On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Dylan Fogarty-MacDonald <[email protected]> wrote: > Sounds interesting, Andrew. I'm keen to learn more about your tools some time. > > Dylan > > On Monday, April 26, 2010, Andrew Grimm <[email protected]> wrote: >> Is concurrency an issue for web sites (don't you just get a couple >> more mongrels or unicorns or animal of some description?) or for other >> uses? >> >> It's sometimes a problem for me. Sometimes you get a metric truckload >> of DNA sequences, so you'd like to be able to use multiple CPUs. >> Thankfully, system calls can be done concurrently, so I usually have a >> glue script that makes system calls to scripts that do much of the >> data processing, and I have a script that looks at processed data at >> the end. >> >> I might try jruby for bioinformatics purposes some day. >> >> Actually, trying it exposed a bioruby issue >> http://github.com/bioruby/bioruby/issues#issue/6 involving the use of >> RUBY_PLATFORM. Looking at how RUBY_PLATFORM is used in rails, I >> discovered a possible issue with rails, which turned out to coincide >> with ticket 3999. >> >> Andrew >> >> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Julian Doherty >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Slow. Poor concurrency support. Meta programming black magic makes libraries >>> easy to use, but hard to grok. >>> That said, it's fast enough for what I want to do, and there are other >>> tools/languages that integrate well and help with concurrency. >>> >>> On 25 April 2010 12:04, Andrew Grimm <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> It's a bit confusing, considering that $ sometimes means "global". >>>> >>>> I tend to use match objects myself, but that's my conservative nature for >>>> you. >>>> >>>> Andrew >>>> >>>> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Korny Sietsma <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> > Seriously? I never realised that. That makes things somewhat better, >>>> > though >>>> > rather hacky imho. >>>> > >>>> > - Korny >>>> > >>>> > On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Nicholas Jefferson >>>> > <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>> >>>> >>> - Perl-like global operators - especially when it comes to regexps, I >>>> >>> seem to keep coming back to $1 and the like. I'd like to think >>>> >>> there's >>>> >>> a better way to do this, and maybe it just needs more practise on my >>>> >>> part, using matcher objects or alternative syntaxes. >>>> >> >>>> >> $~, $&, $1, etc. are local: >>>> >> >>>> >> def bar >>>> >> p [:bar, $~, $&, $1] >>>> >> "bar" =~ /(bar)/ >>>> >> p [:bar, $~, $&, $1] >>>> >> end >>>> >> >>>> >> p [:foo, $~, $&, $1] >>>> >> "foo" =~ /(foo)/ >>>> >> p [:foo, $~, $&, $1] >>>> >> bar >>>> >> p [:foo, $~, $&, $1] >>>> >> >>>> >> Thanks, >>>> >> >>>> >> Nicholas >>>> >> >>>> >> -- >>>> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> >> Groups >>>> >> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. >>>> >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> >> [email protected]. >>>> >> For more options, visit this group at >>>> >> http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. >>>> >> >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > -- >>>> > Kornelis Sietsma korny at my surname dot com >>>> > kornys on twitter/fb/gtalk/gwave www.sietsma.com/korny >>>> > "Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part >>>> > that wonders what the part that isn't thinking >>>> > isn't thinking of" >>>> > >>>> > -- >>>> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> > Groups >>>> > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. >>>> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> > [email protected]. >>>> > For more options, visit this group at >>>> > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. >>>> > >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "Ruby or Rails Oceania-- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
