03.19.09 - 09:14pm
It was hard to find a lot of documentation on how to create a Message Driven Bean (MDB) EJB (for deployment into glassfish). Basically - I want to create a ruby app that receives messages and then does stuff with them. After tons of looking around I was able to finally put together […]
03.15.09 - 10:50pm
I just put the Motionbox Advanced Model Observer Observer (Mamoo) up on Github. It's a light-weight (13k), but fairly powerful framework for javascript built on top of Prototype and the Motionbox EventHandler.
It's fairly well documented and has a full suite of specs written in ScrewUnit.
Mamoo let's you stop thinking about the "glue code" you need [...]
03.02.09 - 06:23pm
Bringing Holistic Awareness to Your Design - Boxes and Arrows
We did not find any correlation with user satisfaction and those teams with the most specialized team members, one way or the other: some teams with the most specialization did well, and some teams did poorly. What we did consistently observe among teams that had high [...]
03.01.09 - 05:05pm
http://blog.phusion.nl/2009/03/01/phusion-passenger-211-beta-released-thanks-sponsors/
Support for Rails 2.3
Improved compatibility with other Apache modules, such as mod_rewrite
Ruby 1.9 support
Support for NFS setups
Various I/O handling and scaling improvements and fixes
Improved mod_xsendfile support.
Ability to disable Phusion Passenger for arbitrary URLs (PassengerEnabled option)
Improved application compatibility
Better cross-platform support (including OS X)
Non-interactive installer
Improved command-line admin tools
Ability to display backtraces for all threads
Improved security
More customization options [...]
03.01.09 - 04:53pm
h/t to Ruby Flow:
Rubylearning.com is offering a free git and github training course. I don't have any personal experience with RubyLearning, but I hear good things and it might be a good introductory course for anyone that is just getting used to git.
http://rubylearning.com/blog/2009/02/10/git-and-github-a-free-course/