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 What could you do with your code in 20 Lines or Less? That's the question I ask (almost) every week for the devcentral community, and every week I go looking to find cool new examples that show just how flexible and powerful iRules can... Oct. 30, 2009 01:12 PM EDT Reads: 318 |
 Our open source framework Rhodes contains the first implementation of Ruby for every major smartphone operating system: iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Symbian. The primary benefits of the Rhodes framework are: the productivity and portability enabled by writing interfa...Sep. 22, 2009 09:53 PM EDT |
 Recently a friend of mine showed me Heroku, an "instant Ruby platform". Basically what you can do with Heroku is build your Ruby application and the deployment to the remote Heroku site is not only brainless, painless, and simple, but it can be done entirely from the command line (whic...Sep. 8, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,523 |
 What could you do with your code in 20 Lines or Less? That's the question I ask (almost) every week for the devcentral community, and every week I go looking to find cool new examples that show just how flexible and powerful iRules can be without getting in over your head.
Here are ...Aug. 6, 2009 07:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,143 |
 As more and more data become available as a matter of course, the examples set by organisations such as MySociety become increasingly attainable for us all. Other than ensuring that it is ‘open,’ do we need to be asking for more from those making data available? And once it’s there, wi...Aug. 2, 2009 04:34 PM EDT Reads: 1,448 |
 As an avid baseball fan, I’ve always been interested in the statistics that surround baseball. More so than in any other sport, baseball is a game ruled by statistics. In this post, I will describe a program that I wrote in the Ruby language to generate box scores for any Major Leage B...Jul. 20, 2009 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,096 |
 IT managers can look to an unlikely source for career inspiration: the late Walter Cronkite. The guiding principles that made Cronkite, "the most trusted man in America" can help impact your career in the world of high tech.
The late Walter Cronkite as a role model for IT managers? ...Jul. 20, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,126 |
 After pushing my latest post, Securing the Cloud: Shared Hardware and the Data Plane, Hoff posted a series of excellent questions and responses to the post via Twitter. I thought responding via another blog post, so that his questions could be addressed alongside my last post, was the ...Jul. 17, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,711 |
 Yesterday I had the pleasure of speaking at the superb European Ruby Conference in Barcelona. It was fascinating seeing the enthusiasm of the audience for Ruby and the technologies presented. I also got to talk to several attendees about their own Ruby efforts. The most interestin...May. 11, 2009 11:24 AM EDT |
 Joel Spolsky doesn't need my help in defending himself. But since he's my favorite blogger and a person I highly respect, I feel obligated to speak up. Mr. Curt Monash has written an article implying that Joel overestimates his importance while not achieving that much since he was able...Mar. 9, 2009 10:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,124 |
 Last month, JavaBlackBelt completed a survey where developers said their teams would be 25% more productive if their management committed to skills management... which led me to consider: Which Java technologies do developers think that managers should understand better in order to mak...Mar. 9, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,685 |
 Red Hat is a trusted open source provider. Red Hat offers enterprise customers a long-term plan for building infrastructures on the quality and innovation of open source. Combining open source operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management...May. 29, 2008 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 31,296 |
 Here is a question that I have been pondering on and off for quite a while: Why do 'cool kids' choose Ruby or PHP to build websites instead of Java? I have to admit that I do not have an answer. Why do I even care? Because I am a Java developer. Like many Java developers, I get along w...Apr. 1, 2008 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 122,252 Replies: 131 |
 I installed Ubuntu on the Toshiba laptop. Ubuntu installed in 15 minutes - 49 for Windows XP and 125 for Windows Vista. Ubuntu's desktop came right up. I opened the pre-installed Firefox browser and found I could browse the Web immediately. Ubuntu installed a network adaptor for the To...Nov. 11, 2007 11:00 AM EST Reads: 24,482 Replies: 4 |
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