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Connect to an oracle database using jdbc on JRuby in a jar file
This is how you can use JRuby to connect to an oracle database without requiring Ruby to be installed on the system, but only Java. The JRuby interpreter and all necessary libraries will be packed into a single executable jar file. This is done “from scratch”, so if you need something more complex, consider gems like warbler, rawr...
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Jan Lelis
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Jul 4, 2012 12:50 AM
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The Front-End Future
My Goruco 2012 talk, "The Front-End Future", is now up. In it, I talk about thick-client development from a fairly macro point-of-view: Significant long-term benefits and drawbacks, the gains in fully embracing REST, etc. I also talk a fair amount about the cultural issues facing Ruby and Rails programmers who may be spending more and more of...
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Francis Hwang
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Jul 3, 2012 4:54 PM
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Verifying benchmarks with ministat
Most people know to benchmark to verify performance improvements, but comparing a handful of results isn't enough. You need to be sure your results are statistically significant. ministat is a tool written by Poul-Henning Kamp that determines if two result sets are statistically significant and display the difference in performance between the...
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Eric Hodel
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Jun 27, 2012 5:51 PM
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On Leaving Sencha
As some of you may know, I left Sencha last week to move to another startup just up the road in San Mateo. Leaving the company was a hugely difficult thing to do for lots of reasons, some obvious, some less so. I’d like to share a few thoughts on my time there and look forward a little to the future. I first came across Sencha’s...
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Edward Spencer
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Jun 27, 2012 11:56 AM
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Starling games in Amethyst - part 2
In my last video, I explained how to install all the software you'd need to write games using the Starling framework with Amethyst. Now it's time to build a working project inside Amethyst. This video won't explain how to write a real game (there are other people who've already written some excellent tutorials on Starling - see below). But it...
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Huw Collingbourne
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Jun 27, 2012 7:22 AM
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Sharing Blog Example Code
I've been blogging since 2005, using various tools for publishing readable code. Originally you'd just put code out there, no colors, just a pre tag and some indention. Then 'export to html' became pretty standard in various editors, and everyone's life got better. These days, people want code examples available to play with - and I use GitHub...
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Jay Fields
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Jun 26, 2012 11:52 AM
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Reading Clojure Stacktraces
Clojure stacktraces are not incredibly user friendly. Once I got used to the status quo, I forgot how much noise lives within a stacktrace; however, every so often a Clojure beginner will remind the community that stacktraces are a bit convoluted. You can blame the JWM, lack of prioritization from the Clojure community, or someone else if you...
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Jay Fields
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Jun 26, 2012 5:51 AM
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Goruco 2012 is over
This isn't just the event New York Rubyists want. It's the event they deserve. Thanks so much to all the co-organizers for pulling this off. Everybody else: See you next year, if not sooner.
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Francis Hwang
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Jun 24, 2012 11:58 AM
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Clojure: Production Web REPL
A REPL is a powerful tool. I use the REPL extensively in development, and I recently added a web REPL to each of our production applications. Context A production REPL is not for the faint of heart. I wouldn't add a REPL to production in 95% of the projects I've been a part of; however, I'm currently working with two other developers that I...
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Jay Fields
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Jun 21, 2012 5:45 AM
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Signs That Your Project Team Might Be Too Large
Amanda Laucher recently queried the twitterverse on the topic of team size. In my opinion, my last project team was "too large". This blog entry will focus on the things that happened that drove me to that conclusion. note: I was the only person on the team who believed it was too large. The rest of the team thought we 'might' be too large, and...
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Jay Fields
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Jun 20, 2012 3:47 AM
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organizing a speakerconf
About 5 years ago I expressed an idea to Josh Graham.Let's take the parts of traditional conferences that the presenters like the most, and make that an entire conference. Specifically, we should have plenty of discussion time with drinks available & we should have group dinners every night.I'd expressed this idea to a few different people, and...
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Jay Fields
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Jun 19, 2012 7:46 AM
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Program Flash Games with Starling in Visual Studio
The Starling development framework lets you create great Flash games using familiar ActionScript techniques and classes. We are starting a new tutorial series to help you get to work on Starling games in Amethyst. In this first video, I explain how to get everything installed and ready to go...
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Huw Collingbourne
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Jun 19, 2012 3:23 AM
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Setting Akamai Edge-Control headers with Ruby on Rails
Just a short and sweet little tip. Several months ago we moved one of our clients over to Akamai’s Content Delivery Network (CDN). Ww were previously using a combination of Amazon S3 and CloudFront with some benefits, but we were finding several key areas of the world were not s covered by Amazon (yet) for asset delivery. Along with that,...
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Robby Russell
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Jun 18, 2012 11:56 PM
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trust at speakerconf
Trust plays a very important role at speakerconf. speakerconf is known as a place where you can be honest without fear of repercussions. Every year we have several presentations that are confidential, and those are often some of the most interesting presentations. Josh and I have made several decisions that encourage a high level of trust, and...
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Jay Fields
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Jun 14, 2012 4:38 AM
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So, You Dropped Out of College
I was recently chatting to some friends about all the apprenticeship experiments going on and (name withheld to protect the innocent) lamented:So, what happens when they quit that first job (or worse, get laid-off) and their only skill is writing a Rails app?I know what happens. It happened to me. Okay, I didn't actually participate in an...
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Jay Fields
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Jun 13, 2012 6:38 AM
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