added 2008 Sun May 11 18:33:52 by bloid
Jay Fields presents his concept of Business Natural Languages (BNL). BNLs are a type of Domain Specific Language, designed to be readable by any subject matter expert, which allows to create maintainable specifications and documentation. The example language is shown using Ruby.
Jay Fields presents his concept of Business Natural Languages (BNL). BNLs are a type of Domain Specific Language, designed to be readable by any subject matter expert, which allows to create maintainable specifications and documentation. The example language is shown using Ruby.
added 2008 Sat May 10 23:44:25 by p3t0r
JavaOne 2008 is over. I’m still processing everything I’ve seen, but so far I didn’t see to much I didn’t know about before; certainly nothing shocking. Here are some of my observations related to Java7 and alternative languages for the JVM
JavaOne 2008 is over. I’m still processing everything I’ve seen, but so far I didn’t see to much I didn’t know about before; certainly nothing shocking. Here are some of my observations related to Java7 and alternative languages for the JVM
added 2008 Fri May 9 20:36:27 by bloid
One of the powerful features added to the NetBeans IDE 6 was support for Ruby, JRuby, and Ruby on Rails. The Ruby programming language has become popular with a growing number of developers because of its simplicity and its productivity features. As is the case for the Java programming language, Ruby is object-oriented, although in Ruby everything is an object -- even what are called primitives in the Java language. Ruby is also open-source and has a large and active community. Ruby's creator, Yukihiro Matsumoto, known to the Ruby world as "Matz", intended the language not only to be easy to use and highly productive, but also fun.
One of the powerful features added to the NetBeans IDE 6 was support for Ruby, JRuby, and Ruby on Rails. The Ruby programming language has become popular with a growing number of developers because of its simplicity and its productivity features. As is the case for the Java programming language, Ruby is object-oriented, although in Ruby everything is an object -- even what are called primitives in the Java language. Ruby is also open-source and has a large and active community. Ruby's creator, Yukihiro Matsumoto, known to the Ruby world as "Matz", intended the language not only to be easy to use and highly productive, but also fun.
added 2008 Fri May 9 13:33:18 by smackjer
CommunityEngine is a free, open-source social network plugin for Ruby on Rails applications. Drop it into your new or existing application, and you’ll instantly have all the features of a basic community site.
CommunityEngine is a free, open-source social network plugin for Ruby on Rails applications. Drop it into your new or existing application, and you’ll instantly have all the features of a basic community site.
added 2008 Fri May 9 0:27:23 by bloid
The JRuby 1.1.1 release provides mostly bug fixes for JRuby 1.1, like a fix for a bug causing problems with IBM JDKs. See the release notes for a complete list of bug fixes and improvements.
The JRuby 1.1.1 release provides mostly bug fixes for JRuby 1.1, like a fix for a bug causing problems with IBM JDKs. See the release notes for a complete list of bug fixes and improvements.
added 2008 Thu May 8 13:36:49 by bloid
Ruby’s global variables - I have long been aware of their existence in the background, but I hadn’t realised quite how many are initialized by default. What are they all for - and what cool metaprogramming tricks can I use them for?
Ruby’s global variables - I have long been aware of their existence in the background, but I hadn’t realised quite how many are initialized by default. What are they all for - and what cool metaprogramming tricks can I use them for?
added 2008 Thu May 8 8:33:14 by mhenke
Forget Ruby on Rails; in this article I outline why, as a Java developer, you should perhaps be looking to another technology closer to home to leverage your existing in-house skills and infrastructure. We'll briefly touch on some of the features of ColdFusion, the Java-EE-based application server from Adobe, and discuss why ColdFusion is more relevant today for Java developers than it has ever been.............
Forget Ruby on Rails; in this article I outline why, as a Java developer, you should perhaps be looking to another technology closer to home to leverage your existing in-house skills and infrastructure. We'll briefly touch on some of the features of ColdFusion, the Java-EE-based application server from Adobe, and discuss why ColdFusion is more relevant today for Java developers than it has ever been.............
added 2008 Wed May 7 12:55:25 by huikau
creating a quick RSS feeds server for your subversion repository in JRuby.
creating a quick RSS feeds server for your subversion repository in JRuby.
added 2008 Wed May 7 11:20:39 by kogent
Despite all the clicking that has been done on a certain star.gif, I really don’t think Ruby is coming to Google’s App Engine. Google doesn’t have much of a toe in the Ruby scene and App Engine is clearly entrenched in Python technologies (such as Pypy and WSGI). Well, cripes. But, for my purposes, I am really enticed by App Engine, because it gives beginners a supremely cinchy way to make a web app. So, maybe let’s just convert Ruby 1.9 bytecode to Python 2.5 bytecode and decompile. In other words: put in a .rb and get out a .pyc. Yes, could work?
Despite all the clicking that has been done on a certain star.gif, I really don’t think Ruby is coming to Google’s App Engine. Google doesn’t have much of a toe in the Ruby scene and App Engine is clearly entrenched in Python technologies (such as Pypy and WSGI). Well, cripes. But, for my purposes, I am really enticed by App Engine, because it gives beginners a supremely cinchy way to make a web app. So, maybe let’s just convert Ruby 1.9 bytecode to Python 2.5 bytecode and decompile. In other words: put in a .rb and get out a .pyc. Yes, could work?
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added 2008 Wed May 7 9:26:45 by shabda
Let’s see what a Killer app gives you. 1. It fills a big niche, so people are forced to learn your language/framework. 2. It forces the Hosting company to support your language/framework. ............
Let’s see what a Killer app gives you. 1. It fills a big niche, so people are forced to learn your language/framework. 2. It forces the Hosting company to support your language/framework. ............
added 2008 Wed May 7 9:08:50 by rlamarch
Compile Ruby to Python bytecode. And, in addition, translate that bytecode back to Python source code using Decompyle (included.) Requires Ruby 1.9 and Python 2.5.
Compile Ruby to Python bytecode. And, in addition, translate that bytecode back to Python source code using Decompyle (included.) Requires Ruby 1.9 and Python 2.5.
added 2008 Tue May 6 18:45:08 by bloid
Rails 2.1 is right around the corner. I’ve been following the new features in Edge Rails and eagerly looking forward to this release. Rails 2.1 includes a number of features that will make developers’ lives easier. Here’s a few of my favorites.
Rails 2.1 is right around the corner. I’ve been following the new features in Edge Rails and eagerly looking forward to this release. Rails 2.1 includes a number of features that will make developers’ lives easier. Here’s a few of my favorites.
added 2008 Tue May 6 17:40:11 by bloid
I was using the iUI toolkit, which contains a number of CSS styles and JavaScript event handlers to make iPhone Web apps look and feel somewhat like native iPhone applications. As I was working with iUI, I realized I was building up a library, so I converted everything to a Rails plugin: rails_iui.
I was using the iUI toolkit, which contains a number of CSS styles and JavaScript event handlers to make iPhone Web apps look and feel somewhat like native iPhone applications. As I was working with iUI, I realized I was building up a library, so I converted everything to a Rails plugin: rails_iui.
added 2008 Tue May 6 17:38:31 by bloid
One minor issue with NetBeans 6.1 is that it ships by default with very basic IRB console for Ruby: no history, no pop-ups for code completion. Since I’m used to JRuby IRB Console which provides those advanced features, that was a bit of inconvenience for me.
One minor issue with NetBeans 6.1 is that it ships by default with very basic IRB console for Ruby: no history, no pop-ups for code completion. Since I’m used to JRuby IRB Console which provides those advanced features, that was a bit of inconvenience for me.
added 2008 Tue May 6 13:25:59 by vidarh
Sixth in my series on writing a compiler in Ruby: "How about some deferred evaluation and anonymous functions? Lambdas, or anonymous functions, can be passed around like values and called at your convenience (or not at all). Generally, they can access variables from the surrounding scope that gets "bound" to the function as an environment that allows it to pass state. That's a closure. What we're going to do this time is not going to bring full closure support, but it's the start, and we'll get to full closures down the road."
Sixth in my series on writing a compiler in Ruby: "How about some deferred evaluation and anonymous functions? Lambdas, or anonymous functions, can be passed around like values and called at your convenience (or not at all). Generally, they can access variables from the surrounding scope that gets "bound" to the function as an environment that allows it to pass state. That's a closure. What we're going to do this time is not going to bring full closure support, but it's the start, and we'll get to full closures down the road."
added 2008 Tue May 6 0:14:21 by bloid
Jabber and its underlying protocol XMPP are typically associated with instant messaging applications, although the breadth and flexibility of the technology allows for implementations that can span further from traditional online chatting.
Jabber and its underlying protocol XMPP are typically associated with instant messaging applications, although the breadth and flexibility of the technology allows for implementations that can span further from traditional online chatting.
added 2008 Mon May 5 0:19:18 by aalmiray
I kind of brushed over Alex's speed improvements in the recent Groovy 1.6-beta1 release, but based on some recent benchmarks it looks like it needs some re-iterating. Alex implemented something called call site caching. Here's what goes on. When we encounter a call site we look at some notes we left the last time we ran through it, (assuming there are any). We compare notes, and if nothing changed, we don't recalculate the MOP dispatch and just do what we did last time. If our notes are different, we do the full MOP dispatch over again. It's the 'memento' design pattern....
I kind of brushed over Alex's speed improvements in the recent Groovy 1.6-beta1 release, but based on some recent benchmarks it looks like it needs some re-iterating. Alex implemented something called call site caching. Here's what goes on. When we encounter a call site we look at some notes we left the last time we ran through it, (assuming there are any). We compare notes, and if nothing changed, we don't recalculate the MOP dispatch and just do what we did last time. If our notes are different, we do the full MOP dispatch over again. It's the 'memento' design pattern....
added 2008 Sat May 3 2:03:23 by sproketboy
Twitter has plans to abandon Ruby on Rails after two years of scalability issues. Candidates to replace Rails are said to be PHP, Java, and Ruby without the Rails framework.
Twitter has plans to abandon Ruby on Rails after two years of scalability issues. Candidates to replace Rails are said to be PHP, Java, and Ruby without the Rails framework.
added 2008 Fri May 2 19:08:15 by sbc
In the past week+ the whole business about Twitter scalability & reliability came to a head. Bob Lozano provides an interesting persepctive on what's required to build a scalable micro-blogging service. He proposes five key ideas for building the next Twitter++...
In the past week+ the whole business about Twitter scalability & reliability came to a head. Bob Lozano provides an interesting persepctive on what's required to build a scalable micro-blogging service. He proposes five key ideas for building the next Twitter++...
added 2008 Fri May 2 14:32:59 by cutter38
Is Django/Python performance and scalability, compared to Rails/Ruby, fact or myth?
Is Django/Python performance and scalability, compared to Rails/Ruby, fact or myth?
added 2008 Fri May 2 11:10:45 by boblozano
Reports are circulating that Twitter is already dropping Ruby on Rails, and folks are getting worked up in all sorts of directions. Let's calm down ... this is just a case of asking a tool to act like something it simply is not.
Reports are circulating that Twitter is already dropping Ruby on Rails, and folks are getting worked up in all sorts of directions. Let's calm down ... this is just a case of asking a tool to act like something it simply is not.
added 2008 Fri May 2 7:57:48 by bloid
My blog post about the first problem in Project Euler went strange places. I was just trying to learn Python by solving a barely non-trivial problem. Maybe it was a full moon, not sure, but it wound up in a tangle of gcc, groovyc, and .elc. Happily, some good performance improvements were suggested and I've tried to incorporate them below.
My blog post about the first problem in Project Euler went strange places. I was just trying to learn Python by solving a barely non-trivial problem. Maybe it was a full moon, not sure, but it wound up in a tangle of gcc, groovyc, and .elc. Happily, some good performance improvements were suggested and I've tried to incorporate them below.
added 2008 Fri May 2 1:13:22 by bloid
We’ve run against multiple (five now) separate PostgreSQL servers for a long time now. To be clear, that’s five separate “databases” in the sense that PostgreSQL uses the term. Not a replicating / mirror setup - separate databases with different data but with similar structure.
We’ve run against multiple (five now) separate PostgreSQL servers for a long time now. To be clear, that’s five separate “databases” in the sense that PostgreSQL uses the term. Not a replicating / mirror setup - separate databases with different data but with similar structure.
added 2008 Thu May 1 10:06:28 by bloid
There's something that's been bugging me for a long time that I need to get off my chest. Some of you may hate me for it, but perhaps there are others out there with the same complaint, silently in agony, wishing for death to take the pain away. It's time to set the record straight, and prove once and for all that the Rubyists are wrong.
There's something that's been bugging me for a long time that I need to get off my chest. Some of you may hate me for it, but perhaps there are others out there with the same complaint, silently in agony, wishing for death to take the pain away. It's time to set the record straight, and prove once and for all that the Rubyists are wrong.
added 2008 Thu May 1 8:25:53 by huikau
Aloha theme updated to support latest version of NetBeans (6.1)
Aloha theme updated to support latest version of NetBeans (6.1)
added 2008 Wed Apr 30 21:34:11 by Todd Werth
A black color scheme for VIM based off of my popular IR_Black theme for TextMate. It has different colors for a wide variety of items, with coordinated colors between like items
A black color scheme for VIM based off of my popular IR_Black theme for TextMate. It has different colors for a wide variety of items, with coordinated colors between like items
added 2008 Wed Apr 30 21:28:48 by bloid
I've been working on Kebima for several months now, using Firefox and Linux/OSX. Chalk it up to not doing enough research, but I just figured transparent PNGs worked in IE. Oh well. They don't. At least not in 6 and earlier. So began my mission to get them to work.
I've been working on Kebima for several months now, using Firefox and Linux/OSX. Chalk it up to not doing enough research, but I just figured transparent PNGs worked in IE. Oh well. They don't. At least not in 6 and earlier. So began my mission to get them to work.
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