podcasts

S01E46: Christopher Bertels

04 Nov 2011

  • 0:30 Introduction: Chris and Fancy
  • 1:27 When to use Fancy
  • 2:40 Fancy and Ruby similarities and differences
  • 3:50 Chris’ favorite thing about Fancy
  • 5:20 Why Fancy is built on top of the Rubinius VM
  • 7:44 Other language implementors building on top of the Rubinius VM
  • 8:31 Contributing to Fancy
  • 9:35 The contribution model for Fancy; areas where contribution is welcomed
  • 10:50 Getting started with Fancy
  • 11:46 Chris’ interest in distributed computing
  • 13:00 Working at Twitter: what Chris does, the technologies uses at Twitter
  • 14:36 Batman or Spiderman?
  • 14:55 If you were guaranteed not to fail...

Links * Christopher Bertels on \"github\":https://github.com/bakkdoor on \"Twitter\":http://twitter.com/#!/bakkdoor/

  • Fancy \"Fancy website\":http://www.fancy-lang.org/ \"Fancy on github\":https://github.com/bakkdoor/fancy

  • \"Alex Suraci on github\":https://github.com/vito

  • \"Atomy project on github\":https://github.com/vito/atomy

  • \"Clojure\":http://clojure.org/

  • \"Cascalog\":https://github.com/nathanmarz/cascalog

  • \"Distributed computing\":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing

  • \"Python\":http://www.python.org/

  • \"Rubinius\":http://rubini.us/

  • \"Rubinius Hack Day (#rbxday)\":http://rubini.us/2011/08/03/rbxday-in-real-life/

  • \"Storm - distributed and fault tolerant realtime computation\":https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm

  • \"Twitter Analytics\":https://dev.twitter.com/blog/introducing-twitter-web-analytics