Chris Lowis

The third Ruby Manor conference happened in London a few weeks ago.

I'm a big fan of radio, and one format I particularly enjoy is the long-form interview.

A couple of months ago I joined the Prototyping team in BBC R&D.

At our daily stand-ups we have to answer the question "What did you do yesterday".

I read an interesting post over on Bernerd Schaefers blog the other day where he described his set up for coding when you only have a small screen.

I've been using the selenium-webdriver ruby gem to do some automated Cucumber testing of our application.

I wanted to generate Growl notifications from a Ruby script on OSX and had a bit of trouble getting it to work.

If, like me, you learn best by studying other code here's five some open-source rails apps with something to teach.

I have the habit of hitting M-q every 5 seconds or so when working with text in emacs.

Recently… Back in May I started a new job at the BBC.

Introduction Last week I gave a short talk at the February LRUG meeting about using the scientific programming environment R together with Ruby.

In a previous article I talked about using the GNU scientific library to implement the Pearson correlation algorithm, as used for example in actsasrecommendable As a prelude to some forthcoming articles, I'd like to show you how easy it is to implement the

Do you need to identify the programming language used in a snippet of code?

I just knocked up a quick Ruby script to automate some of the steps I always do when starting work on a Rails project, namely: open an iTerm tab running script/server open an iTerm tab running script/console open an iTerm tab running autotest open an iTerm

In this post I'll show you how to use the GNU Scientific Library and its Ruby bindings to fit curves to data.

At Ruby Manor on Saturday Alex MacCaw gave a great introduction to his acts_as_recommendable plugin for Rails. acts_as_recommendable simplifies collaborative filtering for Rails models, automatically generating recommended items, at an on-line store for e…