Xavier Shay

Xavier Shay is a DataMapper committer who has contributed to Ruby on Rails. He wrote the Enki blog platform, as well as other widely used libraries, including TufteGraph for JavaScript graphing and Kronic for date formatting and parsing. In 2010, he traveled the world running Ruby on Rails workshops titled "Your Database Is Your Friend." He regularly organizes and speaks at the Melbourne Ruby on Rails Meetup, and also blogs on personal development at TwoShay, and on more esoteric coding topics at Robot Has No Heart.

Xavier's articles

Code Safari: End of the Road

By Xavier Shay, July 06, 2011

Code Safari: Underscore Madness

Ruby

By Xavier Shay, June 27, 2011

In this article, Xavier Shay shares his experience about an excellent presentation from the Scotland Ruby Conference: “Literary Criticism for the Idle Programmer” by Roland Swingler.

Code Safari: Forks, pipes, and the Parallel gem

By Xavier Shay, June 16, 2011

Code Safari: HAML, Compiling to Completion

Ruby

By Xavier Shay, May 30, 2011

If you haven’t read the previous article, I encourage you to do so now. This article will make a lot more sense that way.

Code Safari: Getting Started in HAML

Ruby

By Xavier Shay, May 22, 2011

Code Safari: Spelunking Selenium in Search of Sockets

Ruby

By Xavier Shay, May 17, 2011

Code Safari: Extending Ruby with C

Ruby

By Xavier Shay, May 10, 2011

Code Safari: Linguistic Analysis with Lingua

Ruby

By Xavier Shay, May 03, 2011

Embellishing Your Google Map with CSS3 and jQuery

Programming

By Xavier Shay, April 26, 2011

Code Safari: Threading Ruby

Ruby

By Xavier Shay, April 26, 2011

In this week’s code safari we’ll be doing something slightly different—rather than investigating a popular gem, we will be discovering the Ruby standard library itself.