His latest venture, Famous.ai, may be the most ambitious yet: a platform that allows users to describe their app idea in plain English and generate a working application—no coding required.

Programming Ruby, 2nd Ed. goes farther afield in its 800+ pages, but has less material on the language itself and more material on ancillary matters.

Microsoft has hired John Lam, the software developer behind RubyCLR, open-source software for writing .Net applications with the Ruby programming language. In his blog, Lam said that he will be ...