Hello, and Welcome to the blog

Hello, welcome to Tario's Project blog. A site dedicated to announcements and informations for projects mainly developed in ruby gems. A site where you will find the last information and all the future plans that are coming.

Blog Content

This blog will not follow a specific pattern, but most post will be of one (or combination) of the following type(s):

• Releases of the projects detailing new features, bugs fixed and other improvements
  
• Announcements about future release dates with their respective details (features, bug fixes, etc...)
• Creation of new projects with their details including: goals, dependencies, connection with other projects, repository, ideas, etc...
• Re-factor or re-engineering and how this modifications will impact in new improvements in the near future (e.g. compatibility), and it's explanation
• Technical information that affects everyone in many or all the projects (dependency maps, tooling, technical knowledge, development methodologies, etc...)
  
• Announcements about project management: registration of new commiters, merging of external contributions, merging of forks of the projects, contributions to other open source projects
  
• Retrospectives about the development practice and the blog itself as a communication tool part of the development process

Current Projects

About the current projects, these are mainly ruby gems and are hosted in github (http://github.com/tario). Most of the projects use ruby as principal language, but include C when applicable and necessary (e.g. evalhook). There are at least twenty projects, some with more activity than other, some dead waiting to resurrect or passing to a better live in the project heaven, and some very live. The mainly live projects are two:

• Shikashi. a ruby sandbox designed for "unprivileged" code execution by restrict the allowed ruby opeations (method calls, global variable access, constant access, etc...)
  
• ImageRuby. A flexible pure ruby library for image handling that potentially accepts plugins to add new image processing operations, new image formats and even C implementations of the processing operations to improve performance

The rest of the live projects, are dependencies of these main projects, PoC projects that depends on these or PoC of ideas for future projects (mainly about language engineering)

For example, rallhook (and dependencies), evalhook, evalmimic, getsource and partialruby are related with the sandbox and nogaku is a PoC for ruby VM in pure ruby

In the next, there will be a detailed post for each project, starting of course with the main projects and following others

Links:
https://github.com/tario