Ruby is an excellent language for writing small scripts to glue stuff together. Here’s a script I knocked together that lets you play a zcode text adventure (interactive fiction) with your friends in Campfire. You’ll need a room, account, etc. in Campfire; you’ll need to compile this version of dumb-frotz; and you’ll need a zcode [...]
I'm Ben Griffiths: an escapee of web 1.0 and web 2.0 start-ups; a programmer; developer; architect; sometime consultant; team leader; agile exponent.
I live in Greenwich, London.
You can find some of my web projects at monstermischief.com.
I'm an atheist and anti-theist, a liberal, a lefty and my hobbies include extreme beard-topiary and real ale.
Oh, and recently, I'm a very proud dad.