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 GridGain Systems has upgraded its namesake Java-based open source middleware platform for real-time Big Data processing.
Unlike complex, decade-old SQL, ERP or Hadoop ETL systems that use dead data for batch offline processing, the new GridGain 4.0 will process live data so businesse...Apr. 2, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,813 |
 Heroku, Salesforce.com’s bought-in Rack-/Ruby-on-Rails-based Platform-as-a-Service, has hired Ruby creator Yukihiro Matsumoto as its chief Ruby architect expecting he’ll make the language friendlier.
Heroki couldn’t help point out that Ruby runs many of the world’s most popular brand...Jul. 17, 2011 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,062 |
 Salesforce.com created the legitimate SaaS market on its own. Along with VMWare, it is also perceived as one of the leaders in the dawning era of Cloud Computing.
So when Salesforce does something, I think it behooves all of the industry to pay attention.
Note: This is not a Sale...Jan. 4, 2011 01:38 AM EST Reads: 4,138 |
 Salesforce.com said Wednesday morning that it’s buying Heroku, the Ruby and Ruby on Rails application platform-as-a-service house, for $212 million cash net of what the privately owned 30-man cloud player has on hand plus roughly $27 million in stock and another $10 million in cash for...Dec. 9, 2010 09:15 AM EST Reads: 5,967 |
 RightScale, the cloud manager, has moved into development and test with a cloud management solution that software development and testing teams can use to provision and use cloud computing resources.
The new RightScale Development & Test Solution Pack supports four development langua...Oct. 5, 2010 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 6,490 |
 The role of cloud management solutions in the enterprise world is becoming increasingly important. With the interest and adoption of cloud in the enterprise steadily rising, solutions that help an organization to effectively harness, orchestrate, and govern their use of the cloud are f...May. 17, 2010 03:31 PM EDT Reads: 4,669 |
 Ruby on Rails is a rapid application development platform that in just a few short years has come to be the default choice for open-source developers creating public web and departmental applications. Although Twitter is the highest profile user, there are thousands of developers using...Apr. 5, 2010 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,663 |
 Global small businesses can use local business listings on the Internet as a yellow page alternative and to be more easily located by mobile local consumers. Internet based Local business listings are free through the major search engines and display in search results, as well as on m...Jan. 4, 2010 08:03 AM EST Reads: 4,482 |
 A goal is a desired outcome to be achieved by the resolve to fulfill a resolution to define and commit to a process that will result in success. When the resolution is the process of trust, support and caring, there is no place for fear, anger and guilt. Dec. 29, 2009 02:45 AM EST Reads: 3,208 |
 Continuous Integration topic launched today on Ulitzer. Continuous integration describes a set of software engineering practices that speed up the delivery of software by decreasing integration times. Ulitzer is a "new media" social journalism platform that revolutionizes how we create...Dec. 17, 2009 02:00 PM EST Reads: 7,638 |
 Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on Intel® processor-based servers helps your customers reduce TCO, while providing a better foundation for growth. This white paper provides a guide to planning and conducting a strategic and successful transition.Dec. 9, 2009 05:15 PM EST Reads: 5,177 |
 JetBrains have announced the general availability of RubyMine 2.0, a powerful IDE for Ruby and Rails development. RubyMine's second major release this year delivers many additions and improvements and is a free upgrade for all existing users, according to the "year of free updates" lic...Nov. 16, 2009 11:21 AM EST Reads: 4,858 |
 Engine Yard, the Ruby-on-Rails automation and management start-up, has raised $19 million in third-round financing, pushing it total funding over $37 million. Investors included Amazon, DAG Ventures, Bay Partners, Presidio Ventures (which is really Sumitomo), Benchmark Capital and New ...Oct. 9, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,400 |
 Facts are dry. Facts are without the context of the how, why and what. Facts that fly in the face of what prospects believe or “know” won’t get you any traction in your marketing. Even if they’re brilliant. Unless you use them as evidence behind a compelling story. Your prospects won't...Sep. 15, 2009 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,354 |
 To recap, my original definition of a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is as a method for partitioning a public computing utility such as EC2 into quarantined virtual infrastructure. A VPC may encapsulate multiple local and remote resources to appear as a single homogeneous computing enviro...Aug. 28, 2009 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 7,399 |
 In my recent blog post – Get more out of functional web testing: How to correlate test reports with server side log information? – I discussed the problem that testing results are usually not linked to the log and diagnostics information captured by the application under test. The blog...Aug. 7, 2009 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 10,514 |
 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: 6,552 |
 This article describes a method to use a perl debugger on trigger scripts without advanced interprocess debugging tools.
Using a perl debugger with a V4.x server side trigger launched by the server is very difficult and encounters two known obstacles:
The server will fire the tri...Aug. 1, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 6,753 |
 Rackspace Hosting Thursday open sourced the specifications for its Cloud Servers and Cloud Files APIs under the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license.
It says it worked with developers in an open community to create the specifications and they can now copy, implement and modify t...Jul. 23, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 11,465 |
 Sebastopol, CA – Performance is critical to the success of any web site, and yet today’s web applications push browsers to their limits with increasing amounts of rich content and heavy use of Ajax. In his newest book, Even Faster Web Sites, (O’Reilly, US $34.99), Ste...Jul. 22, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,029 |
 Engine Yard is preparing for Ruby growth in the next 12 months and beyond with its latest offerings: Engine Yard Cloud and Flex. Engine Yard Cloud is a services platform that leverages 100 man-years of experience deploying, managing and scaling some of the world's largest Rail sites an...Jul. 21, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,353 |
 Engine Yard, the Ruby-on-Rails doyen, is supposed to announce its Engine Yard Cloud platform today along with Flex, a cloud service plan for production-level Rails applications.
The company says its Engine Yard Cloud leverages hundreds of man-years of experience in deploying, managi...Jul. 21, 2009 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 11,376 |
 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: 7,158 |
 A search and online advertising deal between Yahoo and Microsoft is imminent - unless of course it's blown off course again, according to Yahoo know-it-all All Things Digital, the Dow Jones blog.
Under the circumstances blogger Kara Swisher isn't guaranteeing a deal will happen thou...Jul. 20, 2009 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 5,252 |
 “What would you think if I told you that you can develop a web application at least ten times faster with Rails than you can with a typical Java framework?” Oops! Ten times faster! Well, after these comments I decided to learn Ruby on Rails. I need to know the true key of the productiv...May. 16, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 39,064 |
 Google's now year-old App Engine infrastructure, previously limited to running only programs written in a particular species of Python, a less-than-mainstream tongue but an internal Google favorite, is learning to accept programs written in Java. With the move, Google is reaching out t...Apr. 8, 2009 06:03 PM EDT Reads: 8,412 |
 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: 7,682 |
JumpBox has announced the release of 38 Open Source applications to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service. The release enables server application deployment, configuration, and management almost completely independent of any user hardware. JumpBox offers small to mid-sized org... Jan. 5, 2009 01:00 AM EST Reads: 7,265 |
 The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has sued Cisco for copyright infringement. It says Cisco’s Linksys division uses GNU code and won’t honor the GPL 2 and LGPL 2 and 2.1 licenses that the GNU software’s distributed under and give customers the source code to the Cisco-modified embedded...Dec. 16, 2008 07:00 PM EST Reads: 10,605 |
 After spending a year in private beta, Amazon's SimpleDB has been pushed into what the company calls "unlimited public beta." Any developer or business can now sign up and start using the web service. As a come-on, for the next six months or so Amazon will be offering a free monthly us...Dec. 5, 2008 08:30 AM EST Reads: 4,797 |
 "Ruby on Rails is always evolving and has over the past five years gone through some fifty-plus public releases," said David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Rails and member of the Rails Core Team. "Rails developers need the supporting ecosystem to keep up with that evolution. New Relic...Dec. 4, 2008 10:24 AM EST Reads: 5,809 |
 Writing shell scripts to automate the build and deploy process for ColdFusion applications is not very much fun. The Jakarta Ant project is an open-source, cross-platform alternative that makes it easy to automate the build and deploy process.Dec. 1, 2008 12:15 PM EST Reads: 32,909 Replies: 2 |
 This is the sentence that screams "We don't get it, we don't get it, someone please help us, we don't get it!" Hello my friends at 1105 Media, hello there! There have not been "print issues " or "print magazines" or print anything for the past five years in technology media. IDG does n...Nov. 12, 2008 11:30 AM EST Reads: 9,368 |
 Keynote Systems has announced it will open its cloud infrastructure, offering any Web team concerned with their end users' experience free access to KITE (Keynote Interactive Testing Environment), Keynote's product for testing and analyzing the performance of Web applications across th...Oct. 22, 2008 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 7,575 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global rich Internet technology provider Appcelerator named "Platinum Sponsor" of SYS-CON's upcoming AJAX World Conference & Expo 2008 West, which will take place October 20-22, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon Valley, ...Oct. 17, 2008 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,750 |
 This tutorial deals with AJAX implementation in Ruby on Rails 2. While I was learning RoR, I had lot of issues of properly having AJAX implementation in my projects. This tutorial is for those people out there. In this tutorial, I`ll just show some very simple Script.aculo.us Animation...Oct. 5, 2008 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 11,752 |
 SYS-CON Events' sales team replied to Scott Kelly's exhibitor inquiry, but when they never heard back from Scott, they decided to do a little Googling and here is what they found out. Mr Kelly is actually the 'Director of Product Management at TechTarget,' a technology media company th...Oct. 2, 2008 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 13,056 Replies: 3 |
 Google co-founder Sergey Brin started a personal blog Thursday, beginning with the revelation that he has a genetic predisposition to Parkinson’s, the nasty incurable disease that has crippled Michael Fox, the actor. Brin’s mother’s got it and so has her aunt but cases of familial Park...Sep. 21, 2008 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,286 |
 Appcelerator is an open source software company specializing in products and services for rapid rich Internet application (RIA) and SOA-based services development. The Appcelerator Platform SDKs enable developers to develop rich Ajax and DHTML applications using cross-browser widgets, ...Sep. 15, 2008 02:20 PM EDT Reads: 8,277 |
 Open source software, while not synonymous with Java, may often be seamlessly integrated with Java code to produce a versatile synthesis that makes developers' lives much easier. In recent years, developers have taken some open source dynamic languages, commonly referred to as 'scripti...Jul. 25, 2008 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 14,357 |
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