May 13, 2010: The Rules of Agile Estimation
Top Story JRuby 1.5 is out. Highlights include improved Rails 3 support, better support for Windows, better FFI support, better startup time (yay!) and a lot of other tweaks and fixes. Book Update Still Cucumbering, hope to finish today. The book is still on sale, of course. And I’d still love to see more comments...
JRuby 1.5.0 Released: The Best Alternative Ruby Implementation Gets Even Better
Following on five months after the release of the popular JRuby 1.4, the JRuby team have delivered JRuby 1.5!
May 10, 2010: The need for eyeballs
Top Story Let’s start with this: there’s a small but embarrassing typo in the Pragazine article code. Especially since it was a) called out by the author of Mocha and b) was a direct copy from the book, and from the Lulu version before that, so it’s been public for about a year, and I’ve...
May 6, 2010: The day of promoting stuff
Top Story I’ll mention somebody else’s book, but don’t worry, I plan on doing it in a totally self-absorbed kind of way. Pragmatic released Using JRuby into beta yesterday, by the core JRuby team. Looks good, interested to see where they go with it. Because I’m me, I can’t help but compare the structure of...
April 13, 2010: iAd, youAd, weAll Ad
Top Story iPads. Lots of them popping up in and around work. Probably some more coherent impressions coming later. Wait, once again, Twitter has a big announcement after I start writing this. This time, they are going to start placing ads in the Twitter stream in various ways to be announced today. My quick reactions:...
In-depth JRuby Q&A: What Makes JRuby Tick in 2010?
JRuby is undoubtedly the most mature of the alternative Ruby implementations. Supporting Ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.1 (mostly!) and JIT compilation, JRuby is already in use in mission critical Ruby apps and runs scarily fast on the JVM. In this interview with JRuby...
Do YOU want to learn JRuby using Google Wave?
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Announcing grizzly-sendfile!
It's my pleasure to finally announce grizzly-sendfile v0.2 - the first stable version of a project that I started after I got one of those "Sudden Burst of Ideas" last summer.
For people who follow the grizzly development or mediacast.sun.com, this is...
Announcing grizzly-sendfile!
It's my pleasure to finally announce grizzly-sendfile v0.2 - the first stable version of a project that I started after I got one of those "Sudden Burst of Ideas" last summer.
For people who follow the grizzly development or mediacast.sun.com, this is...
Benchmarking JRuby on Rails
Last night, while working on a project I found a really neat use of Rails Components, but I also noticed that this part of Rails is deprecated, among other reasons because it's slow.
Well, how slow? During my quest to find out, I collected some intere...
Benchmarking JRuby on Rails
Last night, while working on a project I found a really neat use of Rails Components, but I also noticed that this part of Rails is deprecated, among other reasons because it's slow.
Well, how slow? During my quest to find out, I collected some intere...
Freezing activerecord-jdbc Gems into a Rails Project
Over the Christmas break a Slovak friend of mine (Hi Martin!) asked me to build a simple book library management app for a school in the Philippines where he's been volunteering for the past year. I thought to my self that if someone can volunteer one ...
