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php  python  ruby  nodejs  from twitter_favs
7 weeks ago by sogrady
Ruby use grows in developer survey | Developer World - InfoWorld
"The latest Evans Data North American Development Survey found that 14 percent of developers in the region use Ruby part of the time, an increase from the 10 percent who used it this way in 2008. Meanwhile, 20 percent of developers expect to use it in the coming year."
programming  survey  ruby  trends  evansdata  via:tim 
june 2009 by sogrady
ongoing · The Sun Cloud
a nutty schedule has prevented me from talking direct w/ Tim about this, sadly, but it looks interesting. need to write it up after getting the walkthrough.
timbray  sun  cloud  rest  java  python  ruby  storage  amazon  creativecommons 
march 2009 by sogrady
kd.to_tumblr - The Opposite of Momentum
interesting critique of the Ruby trends and directions
ruby  momentum  adoption  popularity  trends 
december 2008 by sogrady
Nat Friedman › Happy Saturday
yet another example of why i am not a developer by trade
script  ruby  programming  puzzle  natfriedman  example  development 
november 2008 by sogrady
Learn a dynamic language now - The Tripping Point - Pluralsight Blogs
"Learn a dynamic language now. Why? Because you can do more with less code and get better quality too. How can you argue with that?"
ruby  python  dynamic  languages  via:tim 
october 2008 by sogrady
Merb 1.0 For Ruby Emerges. Real Competition For Rails?
nice piece from Gartner on Merb. i've heard good things about the framework, but haven't talked much to the implementation / deployment side. the criticisms of Rails, however, are pretty well known at this point.
ruby  rails  merb  gartner 
october 2008 by sogrady
Introducing Vertebra
there's a reason so many smart people are making long bets on XMPP
engineyard  xmpp  ruby  cloud  vertebra  rails  deployment  jabber  distributed 
june 2008 by sogrady
The truth about Rails - rc3.org
some pushback to the recent backlash against Rails. i tend to agree. it is really eye opening how quickly you can go from a dataset to skeleton application.
rafecolburn  rails  ruby  programming  extensions 
january 2008 by sogrady
Simplifying Web Framework Deployment on Shared Hosting
an important question, given the role of shared hosts as a gateway to ubiquity, although b/twn virtualization and HaaS, it may become less so over time
deployment  hosting  web  frameworks  ruby  rails  python 
january 2008 by sogrady
What's the ceiling for Rails? - rc3.org
don't agree with all of this, but very useful input on the Rails yay or nay question
rails  rafecolburn  ruby 
january 2008 by sogrady
Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | Tim Bray on Ruby on Rails
Joe pushes back to Tim's Rails predictions. i'm in between, though like some of the commenters i am skeptical of the authority of Google Trends posts
ruby  rails  programming  jvm  statistics  joegregorio 
january 2008 by sogrady
ongoing · R and P
"It occurs to me that there might be a pattern here: Python for utilities and infrastructure, Ruby for applications. Early days yet, but it’s not completely implausible." - not entirely sold on this, as Python's behind some great apps, but interesting
python  ruby  timbray  infrastructure  applications  programminglanguages 
december 2007 by sogrady
The Great Ruby Shootout | Zen and the Art of Ruby Programming
interesting metrics on Ruby performance. looks like 1.9 is a welcome update, speedwise.
ruby  benchmarks  jruby  performance  programming  ruby1.9  via:tim 
december 2007 by sogrady
7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails - O'Reilly Ruby
Rafe is right: this is an interesting counterpoint - and very constructively done at that - to the PHP ==> Rails migration stories
cdbaby  php  rails  ruby  oo  switching  via:rafe 
september 2007 by sogrady
Adam Leventhal's Weblog
this was one of the reasons i was bummed to leave on Wed PM rather than Thurs - would have liked to see this in person
adamleventhal  dtrace  ruby  twitter  performance  observability 
august 2007 by sogrady
Putting Net::HTTP and REXML Together
using this to lowercase all of my del.icio.us tags. once again, i display why i was a sorry developer. not only did i not write this myself, i didn't even find it - dberkholz was kind enough to pass it along.
del.icio.us  http  rexml  ruby  via:dberkholz  via:#redmonk 
july 2007 by sogrady
rc3.org: The race for Ruby IDE support
"One thing I've been predicting to everyone who'll listen is that like deployment and scalability, serious IDE support is on the way for Ruby. " - indeed it is
ruby  ide  rafecolburn 
june 2007 by sogrady
Joyeur: Joyeur: Slingshot (Public Release)
Slingshot goes GA; congrats to the Joyent guys for this, it's an interesting project
slingshot  offline  rails  ruby  joyent 
may 2007 by sogrady
Seaside vs Rails: The battle that never was (Loud Thinking)
good to see this; i hate to be the "can't we all just get along" guy, but can't we all just get along? i know journalism is about exploiting tensions, but there's no reason to create them if they don't exist
seaside  smalltalk  rails  ruby  davidheinemeier-hansson 
april 2007 by sogrady
5 Question Interview with Twitter Developer Alex Payne
"It’s also worth mentioning that there shouldn’t be doubt in anybody’s mind at this point that Ruby itself is slow. It’s great that people are hard at work on faster implementations of the language, but right now, it’s tough."
via:Ted  ruby  performance  dynamiclanguages  twitter  rails 
april 2007 by sogrady
Joyeur: Joyeur: Joyent Slingshot
the Joyent guys are right: this could potentially change the game - need to catch up with them to discuss, particularly given some of the alternative approaches (SQLite, Flash, etc)
joyent  slingshot  offline  ruby  rails  connector 
march 2007 by sogrady
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Intellisense Ruby support for VisualStudio (warning - sound starts up right away)
visualstudio  ruby  intellisense  support  ide 
march 2007 by sogrady
InfoQ: Aptana Takes Over Development of RadRails
fulltime resources on RadRails = a good thing, particularly given the recent focus from NetBeans on the Ruby world; only catch is that i've had issues with Aptana before on my Eclipse
radrails  ruby  aptana  ide  eclipse 
march 2007 by sogrady
Capistrano & EC2 Sitting in a Tree, K I S S I N G « Niblets….Simple. Less.
via John Herren comes this note, discussing the marriage of Capistrano and EC2
ec2  ruby  rails  deployment  dynamic  languages  haas 
february 2007 by sogrady
ongoing · AMP R Us
"The job isn’t finished yet, until all of Apache and MySQL and PostgreSQL and PHP and Python and and Ruby and Rails are in the package, all optimized for Solaris, all stuffed with DTrace probes" - exactly right
ruby  railsapache  mysql  php  python  dtrace  django  solaris  opensolari  samp 
february 2007 by sogrady
Alrond | The performance test of 6 leading frameworks
more interesting performance metrics with respect to web frameworks; wonder why the Zend framework wasn't included
django  rubyonrails  metrics  benchmarks  turbogears  python  ruby  php  perl  symfony 
january 2007 by sogrady
Beating Oprah Winfrey in her own town (Loud Thinking)
"BTW, I'm happy to see that Business 2.0 held no ill will over my blast of their startup guide. Now that they put my name on a list, they're of course a completely authority. And you should listen! ;)" - comedy, but congrats to David
humor  dhh  rubyonrails  rails  ruby 
january 2007 by sogrady
Ryan Tomayko - The Pending Ruby/Java Co-op
like pretty much everything else Ryan puts out, this is important: read it
tomayko  ruby  java  dyamic  languages  php  perl  jvm  sun 
december 2006 by sogrady
Ordered List by Steve Smith
Smith - a dev for Notre Dame - is using Mephisto to power his site. interesting.
mephisto  ruby  rails  smith 
december 2006 by sogrady
Scalable Web Architectures with Ruby and Amazon S3
"I focused on what we learned from building slideshare, including aspects specific to scaling Ruby on Rails." - slides are nice and useful
s3  ruby  amazon  rails  scalability  mongrel  mogilefs  nagios  pound 
december 2006 by sogrady
Tor Norbye's Weblog
"semantic highlighting (for example, parameters are shown in different colors than local variables), code completion" - very cool; too bad NetBeans isn't in the Ubuntu repositories
ubuntu  NetBeans  ruby  dynamic  via:Dave 
december 2006 by sogrady
RailsVsDjango
"Integrated framework for schema evolution." - may be the most interesting differentiator for me; i didn't get it to work last time i was using Rails, but the versioning on DB schema changes is interesting - DJango's very impressive, however
rails  rake  ruby  django  python  frameworks  web2.0  languages 
november 2006 by sogrady
lunatic bumblebee : lunatic bumblebee - tag ruby
"In the last month I have been trying to migrate from typo to mephisto, as typo’s development is quite dead." - looks like Typo is dead - that's a shame, but guess i'll check out Mephisto
typo  mephisto  ruby  blogging  rails 
november 2006 by sogrady
ongoing · Comparing Frameworks
Tim with some thoughts on scalability, performance and maintainability amongst the more popular web platforms
blog  framework  java  php  ruby  rubyonrails  rails 
november 2006 by sogrady
ongoing · Zend/PHP Conference
agree with pretty much everything in here, particularly the bit about Ruby and "PHP has had a lot of successes and has a vigorous, aggressive culture. I don’t think Sun is doing enough to support it." - that's true
sun  php  zend  conference  ruby  women  Bray 
november 2006 by sogrady
P@ Log » Blog Archive » Migrating to WordPress
"The version of Typo I’m using is very unstable and it crashes Apache every day. I ended up having a cron job to kill -9 ruby processes and restart apache every hour during my vacations." - there goes the last chance i use Typo
typo  ruby  rails  blogging  WordPress 
november 2006 by sogrady
Microsoft warms to Ruby language with hire | News.blog | CNET News.com
excellent hire for Microsoft; the folks from Redmond are really doing right behind dynamic languages
dynamic  languages  ruby  microsoft  redmond  clr 
october 2006 by sogrady
Feld Thoughts
Brad's a Ruby fan - that makes two of us
ruby  feld  php  dynamic  languages 
october 2006 by sogrady
The Observation Deck
DTrace applied to Rails; the DTrace crew marches on
dtrace  performance  ruby  rails 
october 2006 by sogrady
RubyForge: RubyCLR: Project Info
christopher's right: this project is worth following
ruby  clr  programming  mono 
october 2006 by sogrady
On Ruby: JRuby Interview (Part 2)
"There are countless libraries and frameworks out there in Java-land...libraries that would be very useful for Ruby applications like Rails. However the effort required to hand-wrap those libraries in a Ruby lib is sometimes prohibitive" - hear this more
ruby  java  libraries  jvm  jruby  via:pat 
october 2006 by sogrady
On Ruby: New JRuby Interview (part 1)
the performance notes are interesting, but also read through some of the JRuby v Ruby interpreter disparities
interview  java  jruby  ruby  jvm  languages  via:pat 
october 2006 by sogrady
Headius: Performance Progress Since 0.9.0
"Nibbling, nibbling away at overhead is paying serious dividends." - performance improvements in JRuby
jruby  ruby  performance  java  via:pat 
october 2006 by sogrady
Polishing Ruby: Recursive Functions in RubyInline
"C doesn't make ruby fast. Avoiding method dispatch makes ruby fast." - interesting exploration of the prospect of running C within and alongside of Ruby
c  ruby  performance  inline  recursive  via:pat 
october 2006 by sogrady
send, receive, reply: Performance is not optional
Duimovich agrees with my general conclusion, but not with some of the particulars; i agree with just about everything in here, but not the assertion that performance is not optional (more on that later)
ruby  smalltalk  performance  java  c  C++  python 
september 2006 by sogrady
Performance Anxiety
"Ruby performance today is surprisingly acceptable for a wide range of uses." - in case you didn't believe Yegge
via:Duimovich  ruby  java  performance  smalltalk  dynamic  languages 
september 2006 by sogrady
Stevey's Blog Rants: Blogger's Block #4: Ruby and Java and Stuff
"If only it performed better. *Sigh*. Well, its performance is in the same class as Perl/Python/JavaScript/Lua/Bash/etc., so there are still plenty of tasks Ruby's admirably suited for" - precisely
ruby  javascript  python  java  performance  via:Tim 
september 2006 by sogrady
Stevey's Blog Rants: Blogger's Block #3: Dreaming in Browser Swamp
"I'm not sure exactly how it'll pan out. Rails is basically a big code generator, a big compiler, in a sense. The "language" is Rails itself" - i've heard this a couple of times now, and subscribe to it to a certain extent - read the rest of this either w
rails  ruby  javascript  yegge  via:Tim  web  programming  json  ajax  xml  RDF  java 
september 2006 by sogrady
christopher baus dot net
very intresting post from Christopher on dynamic language performance versus C++; can't say that i'm terribly surprised - different tools for different jobs
dynamic  languages  python  ruby  C++  performance  baus 
september 2006 by sogrady
ongoing · JRuby Love
cote's already mentioned this for us, but i should have something to say about it as well; either way, *love* the Q&A format ;)
Bray  jruby  java  ruby  dynamic  jvm  hiring  sun  scripting 
september 2006 by sogrady
ongoing · RAD XI: Where To?
"Ruby needs an IDE" - Tim should give RDT & RadRails a whirl; it doesn't have autocomplete and some other very basic IDE features, but it's really pretty - of course that would necessitate the running of Eclipse ;)
eclipse  ruby  rails  ide 
september 2006 by sogrady
Sam Ruby: MeMeme
this is potentially *fascinating*, given that techmeme and the like tend to track things i don't care much about, like the latest tiff in the blogging world
planet  ruby  waugh  venus  aggregation  techmeme  mememe 
september 2006 by sogrady
problems with radrails - Page 2 - Ubuntu Forums
i'm having the same problem; i got RadRails working just fine on Gentoo, but it doesn't like something on Ubuntu (and I don't think it's GCJ - it's running just fine)
ubuntu  gentoo  radrails  eclipse  rails  ruby  plugin 
august 2006 by sogrady
Typo 4 Teething Pains
i may hold off a bit then
typo  ruby  rails  blogging  ajax 
july 2006 by sogrady
ongoing · On Ruby
Tim's thoughts on Ruby; while i'm not in his league in terms of experience, my reactions to the language have been similar - it's tremendously productive
ruby  java  programming  Bray  python  dynamic 
july 2006 by sogrady
Typo 4.0.0
getting better and better; i may explore this as an option shortly
typo  ruby  rails  blogging  cms 
july 2006 by sogrady
Languages That Get out of Your Way
great post from Charlie on what makes a good language
ruby  magik  c  C++  ide  emacs  vim  javascript  java 
july 2006 by sogrady
Framework Performance in Ruby on Rails
very interesting benchmarks of frameworks for PHP, Python and Ruby; the net is that Rails (Ruby) outperformed Symfony (PHP), and DJango (Python) outperformed Rails - thx to kryton for the tip
via:kryton  rails  ruby  symfony  php  django  python  frameworks  mvc  performance  benchmarks  benchmark 
july 2006 by sogrady
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