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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 [...]
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 [...]
What is an “Appliance”?
In this context, an appliance is a ready-to-run virtual machine. No set up to speak of required.
But why? Isn’t it easy to install Ruby wherever you like?
That is very true.
However, the Ruby ecosystem is very *NIX centric. Not everyone has the luxury, or time or ability, to setup and maintain a [...]
I’m used to being shafted as a Ruby and Windows user. The Ruby community is quite *NIX centric.
Speaking of which: Praising “open” and using Macs, makes a hypocrite at best, and an idiot at worst. Use OpenSolaris, *BSD, or Linux if you want to be open in spirit. Or, like me, stop bothering, and use [...]
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 just read an article about a testing framework called “Cucumber” (In moments like this I hate the creativity of the Ruby community. Explain this to your boss, sometime..), on the Giant Robots Smashing into Giant Robots blog.
The article, which is un-surprising good in the technical aspect, claimed that the testing framework is able to [...]
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 [...]
OpenID. Doesn’t that sound wonderful? It is open. Right there in the name it says that it is! And it is about IDs, too! Er, wait. What is it?
OpenID is an open standard that is not vendor controlled. That is, neither Google, nor Microsoft, nor Apple could change the nature of the standard and ‘neglect’ [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
