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Google App Engine, JRuby, Sinatra and some fun!

Posted on March 6, 2011 by khelll

Yesterday I was experimenting with Google App Engine for a little project that I was working on. I literally started from ground zero and could do my thing after a long night. I’m blogging about it to share you the … Continue reading →

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2011 and I’m back!

Posted on January 31, 2011 by khelll

Hey, It has been long time since I opened this page to write something. Actually 2010 was a very busy year. I left ArabCrunch team to join Inquiro, a cool startup focusing on SEO/SEM optimization, where my work completely took … Continue reading →

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StackOverflow cool Ruby questions 4

Posted on March 16, 2010 by khelll

Welcome to the fourth post of this series. Just before proceeding to the questions, I would like to mention the great Metaprogramming Ruby: Program Like the Ruby Pros book by Paolo Perrotta, a very good book that explains the metaprogramming … Continue reading →

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StackOverflow cool Ruby questions 3

Posted on January 29, 2010 by khelll

Welcome to the third post of this

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StackOverflow cool Ruby questions 2

Posted on October 17, 2009 by khelll

Welcome in this second post of this series. Just before I list the questions of this one, I want to mention 2 things: You can follow StackOverflow tagged Ruby questions on twitter using the user: sof_ruby Some ppl feel shy … Continue reading →

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StackOverflow cool Ruby questions

Posted on September 29, 2009 by khelll

I have participated heavily during the last 2 weeks in answering Ruby tagged questions on stackoverflow. That took place mainly after Ryan Bates tweet wishing to see more Ruby developers on stackoverflow. Since then I have enjoyed reading various kinds … Continue reading →

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Observer and Singleton design patterns in Ruby

Posted on August 21, 2009 by khelll

This is my first article in http://railsmagazine.com, it was published in issue 3, so basically I’m just republishing it here again. Observer and singleton are two common design patterns that a programmer should be familiar with, however what made me … Continue reading →

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Ruby 1.9 Encoding Fun

Posted on July 13, 2009 by khelll

Ruby 1.9 has a great support for encoding, this post covers that for a big deal, however with this support out of the box, things like this becomes easier, just note the source code is not limited to few types … Continue reading →

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Ruby Currying

Posted on May 24, 2009 by khelll

Update: This post was updated to show the difference between Currying and Partial Functions. Currying is a concept in Functional Programming that’s enabled by Higher-order functions. It’s best described as: the ability to take a function that accepts n parameters … Continue reading →

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Ruby and Functional Programming

Posted on May 24, 2009 by khelll

Ruby is known to support the functional paradigm. This article is going to walk you through the Functional Programming page on WikiPedia, to revise the general concepts of functional programming and to explain how Ruby supports them. According to wikipedia, … Continue reading →

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