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,
Code Safari: Underscore Madness
By Xavier Shay,
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,
Code Safari: HAML, Compiling to Completion
By Xavier Shay,
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
By Xavier Shay,
Code Safari: Spelunking Selenium in Search of Sockets
By Xavier Shay,
Code Safari: Extending Ruby with C
By Xavier Shay,
Code Safari: Linguistic Analysis with Lingua
By Xavier Shay,
Embellishing Your Google Map with CSS3 and jQuery
By Xavier Shay,
Code Safari: Threading Ruby
By Xavier Shay,
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.