Ruby on Rails - a paper dragon?
When Ruby on Rails started to gain some momentum a year or so ago, I decided to take another look at the Ruby language itself along with the Rails web... more »
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Apple’s iPhone SDK Prohibits Real Mobile Innovation
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Last week Apple opened up the iPhone and introduced a software developer’s kit (SDK) to allow third parties to develop software for the iPhone. This... more »
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Why Silverlight is nailing Flex
An article on why Silverlight has a bigger buzz than Flex.
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John Carmack on id Tech 6, Ray Tracing, Consoles, Physics and more
The information that John discussed with us is very in-depth and you'll probably want to block off some time to fully digest the data. You might also... more »
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How to use git / github with capistrano
Deploying your git or github hosted app using capistrano.
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Why Basecamp Sucks
Its so good but just falls flat on its face in the most important needs for a small dev team.
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PostgreSQL performance study: introduction
bloid via blogs.sun.com
While working on PostgreSQL performance and scalability tuning I found things worth mentioning. Guess that in order to talk to the community it would... more »
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Apache vs Nginx : Web Server Performance Deathmatch
good benchmark about nginx vs apache
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Mac Dock effects in JavaScript
How cool is this? Thanks to Stephen Morley you can create the Mac OS X dock effect of icons expanding as you mouse over them using JavaScript. In the... more »
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Write more empty lines! They will be read!
activa via blog.activa.be
Using empty lines in source code may seem like a waste of precious screen space, but it's crucial to writing readable code.
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iPhone SDK comparison chart
So with hardware accelerated 3D graphics, an integrated database API, tightly integrated performance monitoring tools, and a highly specialized... more »
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MacRuby - Ruby 1.9 ported to Objective-C
A new project by Apple aims to improve Ruby on MacOS X. The MacRuby project is a port of Ruby 1.9 to the Objective-C runtime. We talked to Laurent... more »
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The anarchy of ruby
It seems the zeitgeist in ruby-land is looking for a solution to the ‘do this if I can’ patterns that continually crop up in code. In the python... more »
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You Used Ruby to Write WHAT?!
Kirill Grouchnikov via cio.com
Deciding when to use any language--including Ruby--depends on the appropriateness to task and the amount of yak shaving necessary. Zed Shaw explains... more »
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Thin The Fast Ruby Web Server
Today Mongrel is the defacto Ruby webserver of choice (watch Zed Shaw's, creator of Mongrel, presentation from QCon London 2007) . But a new... more »
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Matz's Ruby 1.9 Google Tech Talk
Ruby creator Matz goes to Google and gives a tech talk about Ruby 1.9.
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Wilson Bilkovich Discusses Rubinius
Wilson Bilkovich is one of the core developers of the Rubinius project - a Ruby implementation written in Ruby. Wilson is also one of the members of... more »
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Using Git within a project (forking around)
As developers, we know how exciting it is for a project/website to “go live”. You’ll get some praise from users, some bugs reports, but mostly, you... more »
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EngineYard hires developer for mod_rubinius and Rubinius
Engine Yard, a Rails hosting company, has recently made news by hiring a group of developers to work on Rubinius. Now, they added another developer,... more »
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Loading classes from strings in Ruby
When working with Ruby, every once in a while you'll need to go and instantiate the appropriate classes when all you have is the names of those... more »
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backup_fu Makes Amazon S3 Backups Redonkulous
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Redonkulously easy, that is. Your rails app has been humming along nicely for several months, then suddenly it hits you, wait, are we backing up... more »
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Rack RESTful Dispatcher
Example of using Rack to create standalone RESTFul services in Ruby.
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Interview: Evan Phoenix on Rubinius
Evan Phoenix talked with InfoQ to discuss Rubinius, a modern Ruby VM loosely based on the Smalltalk-80 architecture. Rubinius's goal is to be a fast,... more »
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Lisp in Ruby
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I had often thought about implementing a Lisp interpreter, but back in the “old days”, the thought of implementing garbage collection and the whole... more »
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