What if you suddenly had the ability to serve mutliple concurrent requests in a single Rails instance? What if you had the ability to multiplex IO operations from a single Rails instance? here are test results from using NeverBlock with ActiveRecord.

I had a hard time finding sample code but was able to figure it out eventually. Just wanted to share the examples in case someone else is looking for a how-to.

Sun Microsystems today announced the availability of Sun OpenSSO Express, a new offering that provides enterprise support and indemnification for the technologies available in the OpenSSO project.

An opinionated blog post about why it sucks to work in the IT department of corporate America (gag). I have to agree.

The first blog post of many detailing how LinkedIn uses Grails for their website.

After reading "Effective Java" and going over immutable objects, I wanted to learn more about people's experiences with this practice. Please share yours and your opinions :)

DB2 had the highest proportion of users in companies with over 1,000 employees, followed by Oracle and then Sybase. Microsoft SQL Server was used more in medium-sized companies, with 100 to 1,000 employees. The two open source databases, MySQL and PostgreSQL, were most likely found in companies having less than 100 people.

I've been reading articles about DDD and came across opinions about TOs and Fowler's anemic domain model. Typically I've used a TO as the form backing object. In DDD, would I back a form with the domain object and all its attributes and business logic? Not sure if I'm comfortable with that right now.

Ten tips for anyone using an ORM solution.

Gosling shared some pointed thoughts on how he believes JavaFX compares to the Flash / Flex platform.

Two guys experiment with Rails for one week and record their results and thoughts.

"In a way, Ruby embodies many of the features that made Visual Basic so successful. It is not so much what Ruby does today that is causing all the excitement - but, rather, what it might do some time soon."

I've used this tutorial multiple times to get Macs environments up and running with RoR and PostgreSQL. Robby just updated his excellent tutorial so take a look.

For those times when you already have an existing layout and just want to generate a PDF without having to recreate it using some PDF specific markup language.

Just a quick sample of what you can do with the Flex Toolkit for Apex.

14 RailsConf presentations have been released for your viewing pleasure.

A funny spoof of the Mac vs. PC ads with RoR guy and Java guy.

For a limited time, Sun is offering a free DVD media kit which includes the Solaris 10 Operating System for both SPARC and x86 platforms as well as Sun Studio 11 software.

VOIP provider Vonage switches its ticketing system from MySQL and looks to see where it can replace Oracle 9.

Under this new arrangement, EnterpriseDB will provide additional technical support to Sun's customers, customized training classes for Sun engineers, and be allowed to provide professional services to Sun's customers.

There's a lot of reasons. Let's address them.

Life as an independent consultant. Rates, expenses, overhead, and all the things you need to consider before going at it alone.

Java EE's complexity could lead to its demise and provide more opportunities for .NET, if only it weren't tied to the Windows platform. Visual Studio and Eclipse come out as dominant players in SOA.

The so-called LAMP stack of open-source software--which includes the Linux operating system, Apache Web server, MySQL database and scripting languages PHP, Perl or Python--is pushing its way into mainstream corporate computing.

Ruby is often criticized for lacking the features required for developing large applications, and maintaining them over long periods of time with large teams. But are we missing something more fundamental?