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Vancouver.rb Q&A with Jim Pick on Ruby and Cloud Computing, Distributed Ruby and Wikis and More

Posted by Gerald on July 29, 2008

Welcome back to the Vancouver.rb Q&A series. Today let’s welcome Vancouverite Jim Pick, 38.

dRuby is very nice compared to other techniques, because there is almost no stubbing code required at all. On the other hand, any interface that needs to be public and portable to other languages is probably better handled using something like REST and JSON.

TiddlyWiki is a JavaScript wiki implementation that can run entirely inside a users browser, saving locally instead of to a remote server. I am interested in developing a true distributed wiki implementation that supports a local distributed revision control store and conflict resolution — I think TiddlyWiki is an ideal platform to start that from.

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