White paper on IronRuby published
Manning published my white paper — or green paper as they call it — on IronRuby. You can find it here...
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Interview: Ruby On Rails Creator On The State of eCommerce
David Heinemeier Hansson created the Ruby on Rails software framework. He’s also a partner in 37signals, producers of the popular Basecamp suite of... more »
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Zero to Production in 15 Minutes
There still seems to be confusion about the relative simplicity or difficulty of deploying a Rails app using JRuby. Many folks still look around for... more »
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Java.next #3: Dispatch
This is Part Three of a series of articles on Java.next. In Part Three, I will explore how the Java.next languages (JRuby, Groovy, Clojure, and Scala)... more »
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Netbeans: Not as crappy as you might expect.
Over the last 3 days I have been using netbeans for RoR development. Honestly I expected to hate it. I figured I would use it for a few days, then... more »
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Using Amazon S3 to backup Media Temple’s Grid (gs)
Proper backups are like eating your vegetables -- we all say we'll do it and that it is a good idea, but it is so much easier NOT to do it and eat... more »
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Simplify ActiveRecord Aggregates And Other Goodies Via named_scope
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Using the Rails 2.1 named_scope feature just for simplifying find conditions is like using a Swiss Army Knife only as a screwdriver.
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Building an Online Game in PHP, Perl, or Ruby on Rails
The BuildingBrowsergames blog has had a long series of entries showing how to build an online game. Each entry has thus far been completed first in... more »
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New Heights for web applications
When it comes to programming, more specifically the development of web applications, it is important to consider all the tools of the trade before... more »
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Interview with David Heinemeier Hansson: Rails Culture, Scaling Basecamp, and Building Successful Companies
I interviewed David Heinemeier Hansson in Chicago last week about some of the technical and cultural trends that are affecting Ruby on Rails. I... more »
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Java/JRuby Developers, Say Open 'Sesame' to the Semantic Web
The semantic web enables you to use information from disparate sources in different formats/schemas without having to convert the data to a standard... more »
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Getting Started With Rails 2.1 on OS X Leopard
A comprehensive walkthrough of setting up an OS X Leopard machine with the latest versions of our favorite F/OSS webapp stack.
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Why Are You a Programmer?
Why do you program? Have you ever thought twice about it? What excites you about the job?
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What will be Ruby's legacy?
I caught wind of Rails’ release a few weeks behind the curve, and when I tried to run it, I admit I didn’t get very far… but that was largely because... more »
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neverblock
NeverBlock is a Ruby library that enables transparent async IO. Use for running queries or connecting to other services in parallel. All using the... more »
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Ruby Fibers Vs Ruby Threads
Ruby 1.9 Fibers are touted as lightweight concurrency elements that are much lighter than threads. I have noticed a sizbale impact when I was... more »
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Is Ruby very syntax rich? Do you like it? I don’t.
I tried delving into Ruby couple of times in the past. Every time I had this weird feeling of what am I doing here when I am already very well... more »
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Rails Behind the Firewall
Atlantic Dominion Solutions CEO, Robert Dempsey, discusses the pros and cons of using Rails for internal applications.
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Ruby Programming Language By David Flanagan, Yukihiro Matsumoto
tries to highlight imp points from this book.
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An introduction to Ruby 1.9 Fibers
An introduction to Ruby1.9 Fibers, how they work and how values can be passed from/to them
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101 Reasons Why PostgreSQL is a better fit for Rails than MySQL
Explaining why PostgreSQL is a better fit for Rails than MySQL
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JDBC Connection Pooling for Rails on Glassfish
In Light Engineering (LED), we’re known to be multilingual – depending on the project, we’ve been known to speak Perl, Python, Java, C++, Javascript... more »
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GemPlugins: A Brief Introduction to the Future of Rails Plugins
The new Gem Dependencies of Rails 2.1 give developers an easier-than-ever ability to keep track of and maintain the various library dependencies... more »
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The Ruby Programming Language - Part1
tries to highlight imp points from the book.
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Obie Fernandez "Do The Hustle" - how programmers can sell, negotiate, and deal with clients without headaches
Obie Fernandez shares his experience successfully selling consulting services for both Thoughtworks and Hashrocket to help you with the following... more »
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