Open Source Web Services with Ruby
ruwan.linton 
via ruwansblog.blogspot.com
Ruby is a powerful language, I don't think any one will disagree on that. Well, this is about web services with Ruby :-), quite interesting...
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Skip lists are fascinating!
Skip lists are a fascinating data structure: very simple, and yet have the same asymptotic efficiency as much more complicated AVL trees and red-black... more »
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Free PDF Download: Getting Started With Flex 3
SitePoint are giving away PDF copies of the book "Getting Started With Flex 3" for the next 60 days. All you need to do is complete a one-page quiz... more »
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StringBuffer vs. StringBuilder performance comparison
Even if the StringBuilder was around for a while now, many people still use StringBuffer in single threaded applications... So StringBuilder is... more »
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The Best Firefox Developer Extensions Around
Firefox offers a lot of advantages over other browsers, namely Internet Explorer. One of the greatest advantages it offers, is the ability to install... more »
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Useful Eclipse Code Templates
Eclipse's Java editor allows you to define code templates. You can use them to code complete things that you type all the time, such as get logger,... more »
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Drizzle: MySQL slims down on Aker's diet
Brian Aker, MySQL's director of architecture, has unveiled Drizzle, a database project aimed at powering websites with massive concurrency as well as... more »
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What's Drizzle?
bloid via it.toolbox.com
Today Brian Aker announced a fork of MySQL, called "Drizzle". Drizzle is a slimmed-down MySQL, in a lot of ways what MySQL should have been before... more »
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Code Access Guide to Eclipse 3.4
This article describes how to access the Eclipse source code, how to use the Plug-in Spy to identify a plug-in which is responsible for a certain part... more »
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Maven Makes Developers Feel Stupid
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Although Maven has its benefits, its documentation is often spartan and scattered, and sometimes it can be quite painful to figure out how to... more »
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Extracting errors and warnings from a log file using PowerShell
This blog post shows a simple Powershell command that searches a log file for errors and warnings and adds the matched lines to either to the... more »
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Introductory series on Cloud Computing with Amazon Web Services
IBM DeveloperWorks has just published the first article in a five part series on Cloud Computing with Amazon Web Services.
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5 Ways to Rescue an Unproductive Day
We’ve all had them: days when, no matter how hard you try, nothing seems to get done. Fortunately, independent web workers tend to have more... more »
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New SQL Injection Attack hits hard with hidden payload
A new SQL injection hack seems to be out in the wild from verynx.cn. The SQL Injection hack uses a CHAR array to hide its payload which will insert... more »
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Unix Signals for Live Debugging
Make use of UNIX signals to easily toggle debug mode on any process.
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Kevin Mitnick: Social engineering 101
Kevin Mitnick has proven that the weakest link in any security system is the person holding the information.
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Eclipse-free OSGi
Most articles about OSGi are based on an Eclipse implementation, or at least refer to it in some way. In this post, JavaWorld blogger Oleg Mikheev... more »
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DNS Vulnerability Now in the Wild
Dan Kaminsky's upcoming Black Hat preso on the recently discovered DNS cache posioning vulnerability has just been upstaged by its release into the... more »
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Why Ruby Gems boost productivity
I think there is a connection between the enthusiasm of the Ruby community and the average size of a typical gem contribution. I explain my reasons in... more »
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Nine ways to obfuscate e-mail addresses compared
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In 2006 I opened nine different e-mail addresses. On this page I published the nine e-mail addresses. But every address has been obfuscated by a... more »
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JRuby 1.1.3 released - Getting Started with GlassFish
bloid via ruby.dzone.com
Going forward, JRuby point releases will be on a 3-4 week frequency. And you can always checkout the trunk and build yourself.
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Should you ever use MySQL, given that Postgres is superior in most ways?
The Network World blog A World of Bytes asks whether, given that the Postgres family of database management systems are more robust and feature-rich... more »
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Video: Adobe Air - Embedding a Browser into Flex 3
This tutorial shows you how to create an Adobe Air desktop application and how to produce an unsigned certificate. The example shows how to embed a... more »
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SECURITY WARNING: be careful when you install Adobe AIR applications
How installing the new version of Twhirl can be dangerous
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Got the visitors just can't convert them into customers!
A client approached me recently and asked me to get to the bottom of why they weren't converting more of the visitors to their site into either... more »
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