# New Ruby blog: RubyPlanet.net

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-ruby-blog-rubyplanet-net/186281>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 3, 2010, 5:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-ruby-blog-rubyplanet-net/186281 "2010-04-03T17:50:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 5:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-ruby-blog-rubyplanet-net/186281/1 "2010-04-03T17:50:41Z")

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I am the author of one Ruby book (for Apress) and I use Ruby a lot in  
my work. I decided to create a separate blog just for my new writing  
on Ruby. Hopefully you will enjoy it 🙂

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**Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 3:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-ruby-blog-rubyplanet-net/186281/2 "2010-04-04T03:05:37Z")

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On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Mark W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> I am the author of one Ruby book (for Apress) and I use Ruby a lot in  
> my work. I decided to create a separate blog just for my new writing  
> on Ruby. Hopefully you will enjoy it 🙂

Thanks, Mark, I’ll check it out 🙂

I’m working on an AI project right now, actually, for one of my school  
courses. I just got back from a BBQ with some of my classmates where we  
fought our AI against eachother. Mine went 4-1, I was just sitting down  
to  
implement alpha-beta, and I might possibly try out congruence classes if  
I  
have time (iffy). Then test my weightings for the heuristic to see which  
offer the best results (probably going to write a script to fight  
several  
different versions of the robot against eachother and see which weights  
win  
most often).

I have the Manning book “Algorithms of the Intelligent Web” but it’s for  
Java (which I actually respect more, after this AI project, since the  
algorithm portion of the project is implemented in Java – the interface  
is  
Sinatra). “Scripting Intelligence” looks like it addresses a lot of  
similar  
topics from a Ruby perspective, should I check it out? (or is it a  
tautology  
to ask an author if you should check out their book? 😉

Anyway, thanks for the heads up, I’ll add RubyPlanet to my RSS.

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**Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 9:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-ruby-blog-rubyplanet-net/186281/3 "2010-04-05T21:55:56Z")

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On Apr 5, 5:51 am, Aldric G. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Mark W. wrote:
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> > I am the author of one Ruby book (for Apress) and I use Ruby a lot in  
> > my work. I decided to create a separate blog just for my new writing  
> > on Ruby. Hopefully you will enjoy it 🙂
> 
> ## Hi Mark, great to hear! I’ve been following you on Twitter for a while (or maybe ‘stalking’ ? ). I am vaguely saddened to see that the website’s url isn’thttp://rubypla.net;-)
> 
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

That is a cool domain name 🙂

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**Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 9:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-ruby-blog-rubyplanet-net/186281/4 "2010-04-05T21:56:31Z")

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On Apr 3, 6:04 pm, Josh C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> courses. I just got back from a BBQ with some of my classmates where we  
> Sinatra). “Scripting Intelligence” looks like it addresses a lot of similar  
> topics from a Ruby perspective, should I check it out? (or is it a tautology  
> to ask an author if you should check out their book? 😉
> 
> Anyway, thanks for the heads up, I’ll add RubyPlanet to my RSS.

Hello Josh,

My last book was not so much about AI as it is about information  
gathering and processing, with a view towards scaling web apps, using  
Hadoop, a bit about the semantic web, etc.

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**Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 2:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-ruby-blog-rubyplanet-net/186281/5 "2010-04-05T14:51:08Z")

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Mark W. wrote:

> I am the author of one Ruby book (for Apress) and I use Ruby a lot in  
> my work. I decided to create a separate blog just for my new writing  
> on Ruby. Hopefully you will enjoy it 🙂

Hi Mark, great to hear! I’ve been following you on Twitter for a while  
(or maybe ‘stalking’ ? ). I am vaguely saddened to see that the  
website’s url isn’t [http://rubypla.net](http://rubypla.net) 😉