New and Noteworthy in JRuby 1.1.3
JRuby 1.1.3 has been released a couple of days ago, and I wanted to highlight some of the most interesting changes in this release, from my... more »
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Rolling a JRuby desktop application
Atomic Object has been developing several JRuby desktop applications over the last year. I just got finished writing up how we transform a JRuby... more »
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Full Git Clone of Matz Ruby Subversion Repository
I’ve been wanting to have a full git clone of Matz Ruby Subversion repository for a while. In fact, I’ve been using a private git clone for a few... more »
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JRuby 1.1.2 Released!
Highlights: - Startup time drastically reduced - YAML symbol parsing 100x faster - Performance, threading, and stack depth improvements for method... more »
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Response to "Subversion’s Future"
Ben Collins-Sussman posted an interesting blog entry “Subversion’s Future?”, where one of the main points made was that while distributed source... more »
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The value of the RubySpecs
Currently, there are at least FIVE actively developed Ruby implementations out there in the wild. Having that many implementations, despite all the... more »
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JRuby 1.1.1 in RedHat Fedora
Conrad Meyer of the Fedora project yesterday tossed me this link to a build log from a Fedora build machine for...you guessed it, JRuby. Conrad has... more »
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JRuby 1.1.1 Released
Official announcement of JRuby 1.1.1 Release.
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120 seconds guide to JRuby on Rails
So, you have that new and shiny JRuby 1.1 and would like to try it out with rails. Here's a quickest guide to do so! The guide assumes that you want... more »
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JRuby 1.1 Released!
The official JRuby 1.1 release announcement, with a list of most important features.
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Measuring JVM performance
It was a “JVM performance week” in JRuby-land. It all started when some recent code changes is JRuby caused an interesting performance degradation... more »
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Shared Data Considered Harmful
One of the big reasons people have been interested in JRuby lately is because it is currently the only Ruby implementation that can both host multiple... more »
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Using Git for Ruby/JRuby development
Git is becoming one of the most popular source control systems in Ruby community. New blog entries on how to use Git are popping up all over the place... more »
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Wordpress 2.5 and Security
I’ve learned my lesson the hard way. I’ve been running this blog on the older version of Wordpress, and some day it got hacked, and hidden spam links... more »
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How to contribute to JRuby effectively
For the past 5 months I’ve been involved in JRuby project, since it’s a perfect match for my interests: great object oriented scripting language on... more »
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JRuby 1.1RC3 Released
JRuby 1.1RC3 is the third and final release candidate of JRuby 1.1. JRuby 1.1 represents a concerted focus on speed and refinement. Ruby code can... more »
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Welcome Pythonistas to Sun!
Sun has hired Frank Wierzbicki of the Jython project and Ted Leung of OSAF (and a bunch of other stuff) to help with the Python story at Sun.
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JRuby 1.1RC2 Released
Official announcement of JRuby 1.1RC2 release by Tom Enebo.
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JRuby 1.1 RC1 is out!
JRuby 1.1RC1 is out. The list of most important changes and detailed changelog are provided.
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ME Framework: One year in the open
Major events and milestones of ME Framework (a testing framework for Java ME) since its open source launch a year ago.
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Interesting new code review tool: Review Board
Information on the new, amazingly looking and open-source code review tool: Review Board.
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Dream PC for Software Developer
Dream PC for Software Developers is defined, based on extensive research.
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Online Libraries for Software Developers
Importance of online libraries for software developers is discussed. Two online libraries considered: Safari Library and Books24x7.
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Quick Search for Javadocs in Firefox
A very neat trick to quickly open Javadoc documentation for particular Java class, in Firefox browser.
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Comparison of Java ME unit testing frameworks
Three popular JUnit-like testing frameworks for Java ME are compared: JMUnit, J2MEUnit, Sony Ericsson Mobile JUnit.
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