Top Ten Performance Problems and Solutions
Whether you're the developer or the user of a Java application you would like to see running faster, here are the top ten tips to use.
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The Eclipse Movie..
..or the organic software visualization of Eclipse (SDK).
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Not going dark
Rubyforge is now hosting an “initial pre-release of a preview of an alpha of an undocumented proof-of-concept” of the rewrite gem. Rewrite restricts... more »
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Top 10 features of Hudson
Kohsuke (aka Mr. Hudson) and I attended The Server Side Java Symposium, Las Vegas in Mar 2008. In one of the evenings we spent togehter, I decided to... more »
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Jonathan Schwartz's free software foundation
Sun Microsystems has become its own free software foundation, open-sourcing everything from Java to Solaris, and acquiring the open-source MySQL... more »
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The top ten things I learned about Android and the Dalvik VM
Invited by some friends at Google, I went to Google I/O this week to find out about Android, and specifically their Java story. I went to a few talks... more »
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RailsConf 2008 Liveblogging - Friday Summaries
I've posted my notes from the entire day at RailsConf
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This Week in Ruby (May 29, 2008)
This week's highlights from the Ruby and Rails communities.
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The Future of JRuby with Thomas Enebo - Core JRuby Developer
JRuby is by far the most popular Java implementation of the Ruby programming language. The 1.1.2 version has just been released with improvements in... more »
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Rails Envy: Groovy Syntactic Sugar, Videos, & Railsconf
I'm not writing this article to portray Ruby in a negative light, I love Ruby. However, there were a few scoops of syntactic sugar which were... more »
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21 Ruby Tricks You Should Be Using In Your Own Code
In this post I present 21 different Ruby tricks, from those that most experienced developers already use every day to those that are more obscure.... more »
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Real world JRuby on Rails: Infectious disease reporting and management
JRuby and JRuby on Rails continue to being adopted by many projects. After Mingle, Oracle Mix or Sun's rewrite of mediacast.sun.com, a new project... more »
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This Week in Ruby (May 20, 2008)
This week's highlights from the Ruby and Rails communities.
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"Ask the Experts" Session: NetBeans 6 Ruby Support
Sun is running an "Ask the Experts" session on Ruby/JRuby support in NetBeans 6(.1) with myself, Tor Norbye, and Brian Leonard. If you've had... more »
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Headius: The Road to Babel
I'm publicly announcing that we at Sun are hosting a JVM Language Summit. It's long overdue in my opinion...we should have been having these events... more »
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Dynamically created methods in Ruby
There seems to be some confusion with regards to dynamically defining methods in Ruby. I thought I'd take a look at the three available methods for... more »
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Chris Melissinos: JavaOne 2008 - What a week! Best JavaOne yet!
To be sharing the stage with John Gage and James Gosling was a tremendous honor and I loved every minute of it. Here are the highlights of my... more »
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Facebook Drops Java Support - Loses Another $1B of Fantasy Valuation
This just in from the Facebook-PR-flacks-writing-pure-dross department: "We appreciate all of the effort and time that you've (Java developers, that... more »
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JavaOne Script Bowl
The Script Bowl was a smackdown between the next generation JVM languages Groovy, JRuby, Jython, and Scala. Voting was conducted American Idol... more »
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JavaOne 2008, the other half
So, the Thursday got a late start. For some strange reason I didn't feel motivated to go see the Intel General Session, so I showed up for Nick's... more »
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Oliver Steele: My Git Workflow
What this isn’t: a Git tutorial. It doesn’t tell you how to set up git, or use it. I don’t cover branches, or merging, or tags, or blobs. There are... more »
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JavaOne 2008, Day Three: Riding the Rails
This post outlines the development and deployment process for JRuby on Rails based on notes from talks by Ola Bini of Thoughtworks, Nick Sieger of... more »
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JavaOne 2008, Day Two: JRuby, Rails, and NetBeans
Why you want Rails for your web app, why you want JRuby on Rails for deployment, and why you want NetBeans for Rails development.
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Groovy, JRuby, Jython, Scala: Who Wins the Script Bowl?
Wednesday's Script Bowl was indeed what the caption promised, a rapid-fire comparison of scripting languages. Four developers took on the... more »
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Ola Bini: JavaOne halfway point
To say that I am seriously tired of JavaFX at this point, would be a gross understatement. So let's not even go there. CommunityOne was a nice... more »
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