I live-coded a new gem called Ruby::Enum at NYC.rb on Tuesday. This library adds enum-like functionality to Ruby. Here’s my checklist for creating a new...
0 replies - 1753 views - 05/18/13 by Daniel Doubrovkine in Articles
How to get visibility into an important component of any complex system: the messaging queueHere at AppNeta, we get to see a lot about how people build their...
0 replies - 1247 views - 05/17/13 by Tr Jordan in Articles
Are video codecs written in JavaScript the future?
Mozilla has been showing off its new ORBX.js, a video codec roughly comparable to H.264 that can be...
0 replies - 2086 views - 05/06/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Quick, when was Modula 2 created (by the legendary Niklaus Wirth)? Did you guess 1977? Bet not.
Was having a discussion this morning with Kenan on a range...
0 replies - 2411 views - 04/24/13 by Rob Williams in Articles
The concept of cloudbursting is very appealing. Who wouldn't want to maximize control and minimize costs by running a few servers in-house and borrowing...
0 replies - 1463 views - 03/29/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
How Many Hoops Does a Job Candidate Have to Jump Through?
Here’s an interesting infographic for job seekers with notes to the recruiters to jump...
0 replies - 33683 views - 03/26/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Curator's Note: Every week, the Pie in the Sky blog publishes a list of links related to a range of topics - last week's are below.Cloud
Windows Azure Mobile...
0 replies - 1781 views - 03/10/13 by Larry Franks in Articles
A Critical Chrome Performance Review
For a browser that is widely considered the fastest, Alex Hastings has some quite contrary data. His review...
0 replies - 4026 views - 02/26/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
This is a real time map of transaction activity I helped architect and develop for Smart Receipt that they current use as an installation on a 50-inch...
0 replies - 2844 views - 02/26/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
ScaleBase Overview – Your complete scale out partner
Watch the Video below to learn how to scale out your MySQL Database with ScaleBase. Cost-effectively...
0 replies - 304 views - 02/22/13 by Kelley Gemma in Uncategorized
Rails, You Have Turned into Java. Congratulations! A bold opinion, but he does update saying that a major difference is the JCP. And although the...
0 replies - 4112 views - 02/22/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
An Amazing New Java Library! There's a fun 'aha!' moment halfway through this Graham Lea article.
Are You A Lone Wolf Coder?
This is actually a...
0 replies - 3570 views - 02/15/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Bill Gates AMA
If you haven't already done so, you should check out the comments from Bill Gates' AMA. My favorite part was when someone asked...
0 replies - 4108 views - 02/12/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
It's Better to Have Someone Else Copyedit Text, and It's Better to Have Others Test Your Code
Andrew Wulf shares wisdom about testing - it's not...
0 replies - 3122 views - 02/07/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
SOA is hard. Learn how Square is approaching this problem today with JRuby and where we hope to be in the future. We'll go from git init to cap deploy,...
0 replies - 3240 views - 02/03/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
