Amazon's new ElastiCache web service provides a fast, managed, in-memory caching system that is "protocol compliant with MemCached". The new service improves web application performance by using it's in-memory caching system, instead of...
0 replies - 14599 views - 08/23/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose
The new release of the Ruby on Rails web development framework, version 3.1, will feature HTTP support. This additional support will serve to improve overall page performance by allowing the browser to "get expensive assets like stylesheets and...
0 replies - 21428 views - 04/25/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose
JBoss' grand, all-encompassing Java development framework is nearly finished. This weekend, the 3.0 version reached Beta 1 status. It is the first release to have all of the Seam modules (Drools, Errai, Servlet, JBoss ESB, etc.) bundled into a single...
0 replies - 27541 views - 01/31/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Novell has finally found a buyer for every sector of its business this week. While many speculated that VMware was going to take the SUSE Linux division of Novell, it turns out that Attachmate is the main buyer and they will own this technology. The price...
0 replies - 19310 views - 11/26/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
The W3C is working to formalize a language of emotional states for computers. This would include more complex emoticons for human-to-human interaction as well as more human-like interaction capabilities for computers. Hopefully this means that some day...
0 replies - 18219 views - 08/30/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
In a recent blog entry, Adobe's open source and standards director David McAllister remarked that “the axis of evil has shifted south about 850 miles or so," in Silicon Valley. McAllister criticized Oracle's handling of OpenSolaris and its recent...
0 replies - 20006 views - 08/24/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Since the last beta, Ruby on Rails 3.0 has had over 842 commits by 125 developers. That's the level of polish you can expect when you download the first release candidate for RoR 3, which is now available. The fixes have focused on bringing Rails 3...
0 replies - 12546 views - 07/27/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
As an industry, we often under-prize developer productivity. Stu Halloway has found languages like Ruby and Lisp to be very productive. A few years ago he...
1 replies - 11922 views - 06/21/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos
For years, IBM has been at the top of the server game, but a new study by Gartner says that HP is the new leader in server revenues. In Q1 of 2010 HP recorded $3.39 billion in revenue - IBM… $3.05 billion. Ten years ago when HP acquired Compaq, the...
0 replies - 11116 views - 05/26/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Still trying to figure out a productive use for Google Wave? Go see
what the Seattle Times did. The newspaper set up a public Wave to
gather information from the community about a suspected cop-killer's
wereabouts. The Wave already has over 100 people...
1 replies - 9917 views - 11/30/09 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
In this presentation, recorded at the JBoss Virtual Experience 2009, Bob McWhirther explores running a Rails application on JBoss AS 5 and delves
into the...
0 replies - 8874 views - 04/06/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos
Developers today not only have a plethora of languages to choose from, but also a vast array of virtual computing platforms on which to deploy these increasingly multilingual applications.
3 replies - 14183 views - 01/28/09 by Nitin Bharti in Articles
#49, December 2008
Download mp3: 46 min. – 61 MB
0 replies - 3482 views - 12/20/08 by Lloyd Dunn in Announcements
I
haven't sat down in a long time and actually tried to determine a trend
in the Java web framework arena. The uncountable number of "easy to
use" Java web frameworks that are out now adays is too many to even
start to pay attention to.
9 replies - 8807 views - 06/10/08 by Riyad Kalla in News
RailsConf 2008 Ruby Hero Award Video on Vimeo.
The guys over at Rails Envy
somehow managed to present (and create) the Ruby Heroes Awards...
0 replies - 5736 views - 06/03/08 by Daniel Wanja in Videos
