I’ve been knee deep in the Java world for a long time doing a combination of desktop, backend J2EE (spring/hibernate) and most recently Seam-based web application development. It’s the Christmas break and I’ve taken a bit of time to create an Ubuntu VM with Rails 2.2 installed in it. Rails has come a long ways ...
I was pretty keen on attending this years OSCON in Portland but it unfortunately didn’t fit into the conference budget. It’s never really a replacement for attending but a good majority of the presentations this year are now available (as PDFs) here. I haven’t looked at many yet but there appear to be some fairly ...
Well, I haven’t quite kicked my desire to play more with ruby so I’m planning a little side project using the Odeum bindings. It’s too late to start tonight but I’ll try to crank something out tomorrow after work. Ruby/Odeum is a binding to the fantastic QDBM Odeum inverted index library. Odeum is used in ...
I played around with Ruby on Rails tonight for a couple of hours. I guess I’ve joined the masses now. It’s pretty cool. Enuf said. Cool enough to push XUL onto the back burner for the next short whle. A pretty slick little framework. Simplier than but similar to what I’m used to in Struts, ...