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 - 14633 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 - 21435 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 - 27562 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 - 19318 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 - 18226 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 - 20024 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 - 12558 views - 07/27/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
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 - 11122 views - 05/26/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
From the command line:gem install passengersudo passenger-install-apache2-moduleThe Apache 2 module was successfully installed.
Please edit your Apache configuration file, and add these lines:
2 replies - 5432 views - 07/04/08 by Daniel Wanja 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 - 5740 views - 06/03/08 by Daniel Wanja in Videos
