Although (or perhaps because of?) it is getting colder outside every day, it seems that the Linz software scene gets hotter each day. Successful (running and sports portal www.runtastic.com), promising (www.wappwolf.com), and mysterious (next generation of Internet payment www.jumio.com) Start-ups appeared in the last year. Besides, the more practical (or should I say business) software development, there is [...]
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No I am not at the RailsConf, but unless other conferences, it is possible to follow presentations pretty closely (almost live). So here a little summary of what I gathered from digging through presentations pdfs, watching keynotes, and following tweets: Rails 3 is finished (nearly) In his keynote DHH said Rails 3 is finished. With [...]
Engine Yard (EY) is a enterpricy (serious support and hosting, but pricy) Rails hosting service. Two months ago at the JavaOne, Engine Yard announced that they will support JRuby. Since then a lot changed, Oracle bought Sun which raised a lot of questions about Sun’s products and frankly I don’t think it looks good for [...]
I have been using 6.7 for about 3 months now and I also participated in the NetBeans CAT program. Because a couple of days ago NetBeans 6.7 final has been released, I decided to write a longer review/round up about it. I start with an overview of the new features and then with my personal [...]
JRuby is a Java implementation of the Ruby language. JRuby allows to build applications in Ruby (especially Rails) and include them in a Java environment (e.g. JEE). Despite the difficult it is already one of the fastest Ruby implementations available and invokedynamic it will further improve the performance. With this release, the Java 1.4 support has been dropped. [...]
