This is one user's unfamiliar experience of writing Java, and his discovery that native Java classes are easy to use in Jruby. Included is a short tutorial on using Glassfish to create a Sinatra App, as well as a useful, albeit in-depth, link to how to install Glassfish server on an Ubuntu server.
0 replies - 1352 views - 02/10/12 by Gareth Rushgrove in Articles
(Warning some Ubuntu ranting ahead) apt-get install virtualbox-ose
apt-get install rubygems
gem install vagrantThat's what I assumed it would take me to install vagrant on a spare Ubuntu (Natty) laptop.
Well it's not. after that I was greeted...
0 replies - 2263 views - 01/01/12 by Kris Buytaert in Articles
While it's certainly no reason to declare the death of CouchDB, Canonical's recent decision to drop CouchDB as their data store for Ubuntu One is a pretty significant loss coming from a service provider that was definitely a big notch in the CouchDB...
0 replies - 3131 views - 11/29/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
Historically we set out to use Vagrant
on the developers laptop. Soon, the complexity of our setup had
outgrown the developers laptop and required another solution. As the
target platform was based on Amazon EC2, it made sense to create
developers...
0 replies - 2654 views - 10/03/11 by Patrick Debois in News
I found a short and sweet blog tutorial by Lucene/Solr committer Mark Millar this morning. It shows you how to install Solr as a service on Linux in less than 300 words (and just a few small code snippets). The example uses Ubuntu 11.04.Logging
0 replies - 4192 views - 08/13/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
Miguel Garcia, a member of the Scala group at EPFL, gave an insightful, informative interview at scala-lang.org regarding his Microsoft-funded efforts to make Scala productivity available to .Net developers, which have recently come to fruition. On why people...
0 replies - 17939 views - 07/18/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose
Oracle's newly released NetBeans 7.0 features support for Java 7 features. The JDK 7 component of NetBeans 7.0 is technically an early access snapshot. A NetBeans 7.0.1 release in October will feature the final version of JDK 7. Even developers who...
2 replies - 25526 views - 04/20/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose
Contracted code in Java can reveal failures much closer to their fault, shaving hours off your debugging sessions. It's good news then that Google has just made it easier to implement contracts in Java with the launch of their new open source tool:...
1 replies - 23832 views - 02/06/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Apache committers have announced the first beta for the next iteration of Tomcat, version 7.0.5. As always, the memory leak reductions continue and developers will also get to see a new welcome page. A big new feature is added support for parallel...
0 replies - 17166 views - 12/04/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
I guess this shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who's been keeping up with how much (or how little, really) Canonical contributes to the GNOME open source project. Canonical made it official this week that they are moving Ubuntu away from the GNOME...
1 replies - 18953 views - 10/25/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Preface This is one of the most appreciated articles coming from my blog; the original title is: Install Tutorial: Ubuntu 9.04, Apache with SSL, Subversion over HTTP / HTTPs, and Trac. Despite the fact that it's 1 year old now, I still receive appreciation...
2 replies - 9793 views - 09/15/10 by Luigi Viggiano in Articles
LinkedIn has tracked approximately 118 former Google employees who have left after Facebook made offers that they couldn't refuse. These offers likely included low priced private stock, according to TechCrunch. That stock could end up hitting $100 billion...
2 replies - 16462 views - 09/05/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
The RabbitMQ messaging system, which was recently be acquired by VMware's SpringSource, has reached version 2.0. The AMQP-based system has a new persister that's only bound by disk capacity and a server that optimizes memory usage - giving RabbitMQ more...
0 replies - 19428 views - 08/25/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Several reports are saying that the Chrome operating system will be here by the end of November. That's because on November 26th, Google plans to release a Chrome OS-based tablet to compete with the iPad's resounding success. Google has recruited industry...
0 replies - 21848 views - 08/18/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Two years have passed since the release of Vim 7.2, and today version 7.3 is here with a few improvements, but nothing major. Vim has remained a consistently solid editor with little need for more features. However, this release does feature new...
0 replies - 18501 views - 08/16/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
