Status update on Ruby Zen (Ruby Appliance, remember?)

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

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A few days before New Years, I posted how neat it’d be if we had a Ruby Appliance. This, and the mail to the ruby-talk mailing list has resulted in a couple of results already.
For one, we found a name: Ruby Zen, which fits quite well, and is appropriately Web 2.0 without being [...]

Adopt A Library: ClothRed

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Right. I want to, but I really can’t get to it.
ClothRed is in dire need of help. Your help.
I simply don’t have the time, or will–truth be told–to begin work on ClothRed again. The code’s become foreign to me, way too foreign, and I have to get back into the thick of things, to write [...]

On Edginess, Community, and How That Reflects on You

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

This article has two parts: One is a bit analytical, the other is highly opinionated (so, probably more fun to read).
A bit of exposition first: Somebody did a technical presentation at a technical conference. Unfortunately, a few members took offence at the presentation. Not its contents, mind you, but the way the presentation was done. [...]

I am lazy. That’s why I like J2EE

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

No, really. Without J2EE, I wouldn’t have access to Glassfish, with its wonderful autodeploy directory to, well, autmatically delpoy applications on it.
Without Java, I wouldn’t be able to use JRuby.
And neither would I be able to use Warbler to create .war-files for drag and drop deployment.
In the span of 30 minutes (half of which is [...]

A case for CAS

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

A couple of days ago, I talked about the limited options of SSO on the Ruby side of things. This turned out to be a bit of a mistake. In fact, the two viable SSO solutions are viable, and feature rich, providing what you need on the authentication server’s side, as well as the client’s [...]

Kicking off the blog (and the project, too)

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

I promised myself, that I’d chronicle my efforts in developing a project from start to finish.
Well, this won’t quite work out, since I already have the contract in hand.
However, I’ll write up what I am going to do, what I am doing, and the milestones reached. Well, a software development blog.
So, what’s the [...]