Daniel Benjamin Lucraft
dan@fluentradical.com

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My Open Source Projects

The more complete of the open source projects I've written over the years

  • Simplex
    A naive simplex implementation in pure-Ruby. Blog post
    project December 2013
  • Git.js
    A Git implementation in pure JavaScript
    project April 2011
  • swt
    A gem that contains everything necessary to write cross platform desktop applications with JRuby and SWT. Used by the Shoes project and Redcar.
    project 2009-2012
  • Redcar
    A Ruby text editor running on JRuby.
    project 2008-2011
  • Retwis-RB
    A simple Twitter clone to show off Redis. Blog post
    project May 2009
  • Rak
    A clone of Ack, a grep replacement, in Ruby.
    project August 2008

My Open Source Contributions

The open source projects I have had patches accepted on:

  • JRuby
    Wrote the graph profiler available with --profile.graph, and the Ruby profiler API. Blog post
    contribution 2011
  • Rubinius
    Minor contribution to the compiler, improving the parsing of splats.
    contribution Summer 2008

Talks

  • Cross-platform desktop apps in JRuby
    Using JRuby, SWT, Cucumber and swtbot together to quickly write desktop applications. Also some thoughts on Rubygems and JRuby style.
    August 2011 JRubyConf 2011
  • Redcar: Hack your editor in Ruby
    How to contribute to the Redcar project.
    April 2011 Red Dirt Ruby Conf
  • It's Time For a Ruby Editor
    Why are there no editors written in Ruby in wide use?
    November 2010 RubyConf X Video
  • Introduction to JRuby
    What is JRuby? Why use it? How to start testing Java projects with JRuby
    October 2010 BBC
  • Denormalizing Your Rails Application
    How to use asynchronous observers over RabbitMQ and MongoDB for easy Rails caching.
    April 2010 Scotland Ruby Conference
    November 2009 Ruby Manor II Video
  • Redcar
    Redcar is now on JRuby, and rewritten to be more extensible.
    January 2010 London Ruby User Group Video
  • Redcar: Ruby, Gnome and Textmate
    Redcar is a programmer's text editor for Gnome, written in Ruby.
    March 2009 London Ruby User Group
  • Top 10 Horrendous Ruby Hacks
    The ten worst ways to abuse the Ruby language.
    August 2008 London Ruby User Group
  • Rak
    A lightning talk on Rak, the Ruby grep replacement.
    April 2008 London Ruby User Group Video

Education

  • Postgraduate Study
    Study into hybrid algorithms, particularly integer programming and local search combinations.
    2004 - 2008 Imperial College
  • Master of Mathematics
    Specialty in Probability. Dissertation in classification of Markov Chains.
    2000 - 2004 Durham University