Codepope's Development Hell

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Ruby 2.1 has been released on Christmas day and is billed as offering “speedup without severe incompatibilities”. The performance boost is down to a new method cache in the VM and a new generational garbage collection system. The old method cache was cleared eacg time a new method was defined but now only that cache damage has been tracked down and reduced and a future of a more optimal larger cache has been opened up.

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[caption id=“attachment_562” align=“alignright” width=“300”] Node-RED and a quick IRC bot flow[/caption]The latest version, 0.5.0 of IBM’s Apache licensed, incredibly useful and very cool Node-RED has landed but before going further, I suspect a lot of readers will want to know what Node-RED is. There’s usually a lot of connecting of things involved with making the Internet of Things do something useful. Whether it be detecting messages on Twitter, listening to IRC, watching a Websocket or grabbing a web page, each source then needs to be processed and if required make something happen.

This article was imported from the original CodeScaling blog

This article was imported from the original CodeScaling blog

This article was imported from the original CodeScaling blog

This article was imported from the original CodeScaling blog

This article was imported from the original CodeScaling blog

This article was imported from the original CodeScaling blog