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Wikipedia definition of “Bogle”

I was amused by the Wikipedia definition of Bogle.

The Bogle is an ancient Scottish mythological creature that has a nasty temper. They are reputed to live for the simple purpose of torturing young children that disobey their mothers, or of punishing those that are lazy, incontinent (lacking self-restraint), or guilty of crimes.

The Bogle is also a creature that loves to vex humans till they go insane! They may cause a human to hear a voice around a corner, only to find that nothing is there, and then repeat the same antics around another corner. This will go on and on until the human decides to give up in utter frustration. Another way they might annoy humans is to enter a person’s house and create a mess, make weird noises, or do other small things that for some reason, always happens at very unopportune times.

The people who know me will have to say how well the definition applies in my case! (The mess part at least may be true. )

posted on 03.28.06 @ 9:46 pm | 1 Comment

JRuby 0.8.3 available

JRuby 0.8.3 is now available; I’m excited about a number of the new features and speed improvements.

The follow snippet is from the release notes:
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JRuby 0.8.3 has been released. This version fixes a huge number of problems and boasts the following notables:

- irb (jirb) works
- included Java classes are dramatically faster to load and use. A two minute Swing example now loads in approximately 5 seconds.
- binding works
- every constant scoping issue we knew of has been fixed
- interpreter redesign work improved stack depth and brings us closer to supporting continuations
- serious concurrency error when Ruby instances are passed back out to Java has fixed. This was a must for servlet-based solutions.
- adornment of Java classes with Ruby methods via ‘extend_proxy’ method

Thanks to all people on the project and mailing lists for making JRuby a much better piece of software. Special props out to Charles Nutter for working so hard this development
cycle.

The next release is going to be targetted for the beginning of May. We want one more release out before JavaOne. We are getting close to having RubyGems and Ruby on Rails working.

posted on 03.28.06 @ 11:13 am | 0 Comments