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O'Reilly Radar tracks technology adoption via its annual "State of the Computer Book Market" report. In the latest report of 2011 book sales (amongst all publishers), books about R show a 127% increase in 2011 over 2010: As a language specifically for data analysis, R isn't in the same...
Cheyenne, WY, April 11, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Denver based application development and cloud integration company, Firm Interactive, has selected Green House Data for their cloud hosting services. Additionally, Firm Interactive has entered into a channel partner program agreement with the ...
We’re pleased to announce the release of SproutCore 1.8.1.  To upgrade to the latest version, simply run: gem update sproutcore If you installed SproutCore using the installer, please note that due to the strain that maintaining the installers puts on the release process, we will...
Today I want to share with you some ideas about Web Oriented Storage System (WOSS) monitoring on databases and will use Riak as an example. I won’t be discussing here what’s meant by  ”web oriented” or “storage system”, I am assuming that you are alr...
Let’s face it, APIs are hot. They engender community by enabling third-party developers, they allow Enterprises to expose existing content and services in new ways, and they provide a way to deliver brand new products and services. If you haven’t … Continue reading →
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One advantage of using Monitis to monitor your systems and applications is the flexibility to use either the native agent or custom monitor code written in virtually any language. For custom monitors, the REST API provides the basic foundation to interface programmatically with Monitis...
1. Python Performance Tips, Part 1 Like Ruby, Python is a programming language with a reputation for performance bottlenecks. However, Youtube has shown that if you write code the right way, you can scale Python to serve 40 million video views per day. The trick is to use external code...
San Francisco, CA, February 14, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Black Girls Code, a non-profit organization helping girls of color, ages 7 to 14, to become successful computer programmers is holding its second software development workshop from February 18, 2012 - March 24, 2012 in partnership with...
1. Working With Microsoft Security Tools Security as one of the most important concerns of an IT department. This post covers four popular Microsoft security products: Forefront Family, Microsoft Security Essentials,Windows Intune / Windows Update / Microsoft System Center Family, and ...
A lot of bloggers and technologists like to talk about Ruby as if it can’t perform on-par with other dynamic/interpreted programming languages; however, these critics tend to rely on specific benchmarking techniques and ignore the overall performance profile of the language.  The...
A few weeks ago I decided I wanted to play around with Ruby and naively thought that it would be easy to get started. I’d download Eclipse, and a few Ruby packages that weren’t shipped with MacOS, and then be off to the races. Fat chance. What I thought was going to a leisurely evening...
As most of you know Rhodes was created to enable building native smartphone applications using web development skills: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby and the general modern Model View Controller pattern.   We often get the question “oh, so you build hybrid apps“.   While frame...
Rhomobile has always been focused on providing a modern open and standards-based way to mobilize enterprise apps. The first product we offered for that was Rhodes, an open source framework which makes it easy to build native smartphone apps using your web skills. But we also offered Rh...
I was recently asked to do a write-up about my SproutCore app, Hubbub (@hubbubapp), as a general anecdotal guide to those interested in writing large scale applications in SproutCore for the first time. I’m afraid this first post won’t be very technical, but I will at least attem...
The New York Times just discussed the coming generation of new smartphone sensors.: altimeters, heart monitors, temperature and humidity sensors, and even mood detectors. While we at Rhomobile are very excited about Rhodes allowing use of web skills (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, and M...
Making sure your apps work everywhere is an important part of any mobile strategy. The mobile web allows you to reach your users wherever they are, and users have grown to expect that you’ll be there wherever they go. Increasingly, users want to access applications through app stores; ...
Certified Partner Applications Available to the More than 40,000 Businesses using the DocuSign Platform! Marketplace Showcases Productivity Enhancing Applications from Industry Leaders Including Ariba, Box.net, Drawloop Technologies and Others! We’re excited to launch the indust...
DocuSign Web Services Offers Developers Powerful New Tools to Easily Integrate DocuSign Electronic Signature Services with Leading Cloud Applications We’re excited about the release of the DocuSign Connect Application Programming Interface (API) for the DocuSign electronic sign...
For the last few months I’ve been negligent on my regular blogging.  I can come up with a bunch of excuses but it all boils down to feeling that I’ve got something meaningful to say.  I’m not the type to just blog for the sake of blogging but I’ve begun to miss the great feedback I rec...
DocuSign Connect API enables you to develop applications that collect electronic signatures and complete your documents online. With samples in Microsoft .NET, Java, PHP and Ruby on Rails, our SDK allows you to try our web services free when you register for a developer account. Mike ...
I’m here at RailsConf 2010. What a great place to talk to current and prospective Rhodes developers! Rails developers all get why its important to have a full Model View Controller framework. They also get pretty excited about the presence of the first mobile Ruby on every ...
Let me start this post with a brief preface. If you are not a baseball fan who is interested in baseball statistics, this post will probably not hold much interest for you. However if you are, then you may be familiar with the MLB Gameday application and its data which is a great [.....
With the official start of the 2010 Major League Baseball season just days away, I thought it would be a great time to talk about two baseball related open source projects that I have on GitHub.  These projects are Gameday API, and Baseball Tracker.  Gameday API is a Ruby API that mak...
The VoiceCon 2010 event, now called, “Enterprise Connect!” is underway this week from Orlando, Florida; broadcasting keynotes from Avaya, Cisco, IBM, Microsoft and Siemens, which you can watch for free on VoiceCon TV. As I mentioned previously, in my last unified commun...
DSL and Testing: using JSR in the Polyglot Architecture.Long ago, we started working with a Client, PushToTest, that has a tool for testing. The main idea of this tool was the ability to repurpose unit tests into functional, load and Monitor
Almost every day now, there seems to be a report about some ‘important’ system getting breached or some credit cards/identities being stolen or insecure infrastructures getting exposed with schools, universities, municipalities, states and even entire countries being the latest victims...
EngineY is an open source project that provides a complete social networking framework that can be run stand alone as a social network similar to a Ning social network, or it can be integrated with an existing website to provide just the social capabilities. It is a project that I ha...
How do you build one of the busiest websites on the Internet? You wouldn’t guess the right answer to be, “You download some free software and hack  it”…Actually  the question is how do you build one of the world’s busiest websites that will scale affordabl...
Over the past year or so I’ve been working on an application that serves as a framework for building a feature rich social networking site. I’ve called this project EngineY. EngineY is a Ruby application that uses the Ruby on Rails framework as its base.  As I was building ...
Wow! What a whirlwind it's been the past few weeks. Between holidays and vacation and people traveling out of town, it's been an absolute zoo around here. Though I've been out the past week or so there has been an avalanche of content. I've hemmed and hawed and finally managed to slim ...
New Relic announced that their RPM product supports GoGrid Cloud Hosting Infrastructure and is available for a limited time with preferential pricing. RPM is an on-demand tool that companies can use to optimize, monitor and troubleshoot their Java, Ruby and JRuby applications within a ...
Cloud computing environments are just as suited to illegitimate use as legitimate use. Do providers need a way to separate the chaff from the wheat to reassure enterprise-class customers that they’re doing everything they can to eliminate the hijacking of cloud computing resources for ...
“One tricky thing about Closure is that you can’t look at all of the widgets and packages equally (same for most libraries to be fair). Some are battled hardened to the hilt as they are on important production systems acting as core functionality. The keyboard handling and localization...
Bruz Marzolf is writing a series of blog posts implementing a simple time tracking app in various client-side rich web app frameworks. He just finished his example in SproutCore and including some source code.
SproutCore Is Now on Gemcutter: Gemcutter is the new replacement for RubyForge.  It is faster and more reliable, which is great if you just want to install SproutCore and not worry so much about the Ruby. The sproutcore gem will be published on both Gemcutter and standard RubyGems so y...
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. Well we mad...
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...
Jon has a point; Microsoft’s restricted (i.e., Express) editions are as free as the open source alternatives. This is undeniably true, since the purpose of many software vendor’s “Express” edition is to compete against open source on price. However, the difference is that with open sou...
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...