JRuby on AppCloud Available Through Beta Program | Engine Yard Ruby on Rails Blog This is a very cool announcement, and I’m anxious to see how popular this hosting options becomes. tags: jruby engineyard ruby java hosting tab-sweep-110525 { abrandoned.com } / JRuby 1.6 + Rails 3 + Trinidad => Awesometown This is a great… [Read more…]
March 28, 2011
These are the tech links that really captured my imagination this week. Taking Stock of JRuby Web Servers | Engine Yard Ruby on Rails BlogThis is a *great* overview of all of your development and deployment options when running a JRuby-powered web application. InfoQ: Hot Swapping Your Engines At 30,000 FeetThis was an interesting presentation on… [Read more…]
February 13, 2011
Update On 3/25: Later in this article, I state that I will soon be writing more tutorials about using the Grinder. Well, it turns out that I have too much other stuff going on that isn’t related to load testing, so I will be writing about those topics instead. Hopefully I will be able to… [Read more…]
June 12, 2010
Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software by Michael Nygard My rating: 5 of 5 stars I need to start by saying that this is one of the best technical books I have ever read. To me, it’s easily as enjoyable and useful as Code Complete, The Pragmatic Programmer, or The Mythical Man Month. If… [Read more…]
March 25, 2010
This is my second article about running the Depot application from the Agile Development With Rails book on top of Jruby. The first article, which covers development and testing, can be found here. This article covers the following topics: Packaging our RoR project into a WAR file Deploying that WAR file on Tomcat Please note… [Read more…]
November 13, 2008
Update (8/8/09): When I was originally comparing Jruby & Groovy, I was under the impression that Jruby was a beta-quality product, and its cryptic error messages seemed to prove this point. After a bit more research, I learned that Jruby is a robust and high-quality Ruby implementation and that all dynamic languages can give you… [Read more…]
February 15, 2008
I am about to finish my first non-trivial application written in Groovy (a medium-sized suite of administrative scripts), and so far I’m pretty happy with the language. I thought I would share some of my notes in case anyone else is considering the language for a similar application. Development Environment One nice thing about Groovy… [Read more…]
February 14, 2008
I’ve been using the Groovy programming language a lot lately at work to programmatically interact with systems that have Java interfaces. Simply put, it’s great, and it really makes my job as a sysadmin of Java middleware easier. Also, if you’ve tried other Java-based scripting languages like Jython in the past but have been disappointed… [Read more…]
March 3, 2006
I’ve been using Java since 2000 for a variety of tasks, mostly related to software administration and maintenance. A common request from co-workers and some of my geekier friends is a list of recommended resources for Java training. I’ve built this list a couple of times, and I keep losing the old lists, so I… [Read more…]
May 27, 2011
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