After years of neglect, I've decided to dust off the blog and post occasionally. You can now find the blog at http://blog.thoughtmining.com All the best.

After years of neglect, I've decided to dust off the blog and post occasionally. You can now find the blog at http://blog.thoughtmining.com All the best.

Tonight, I ran across a post on RubyInside.com very cool project called DrX that allows you to visually inspect ruby objects. I ran into a few issues getting it running on Ubuntu (Lucid) and wanted to help others in case you run into them.Here's all you need to do to get DrX running (assuming you already have ruby installed):$ apt-get install...

Tonight, I ran across a post on RubyInside.com very cool project called DrX that allows you to visually inspect ruby objects. I ran into a few issues getting it running on Ubuntu (Lucid) and wanted to help others in case you run into them.Here's all you need to do to get DrX running (assuming you already have ruby installed):$ apt-get install...

I'm trying to like RubyMine. I really am. But certain things are slow, features are broken, and JetBrains can't seem to get the forums or bug tracker to work reliably enough to discuss the problems. But that's for another post...I have just a quick moment to relay something I hope helps others.I've been using the IdeaVIM plugin provided along...

I'm trying to like RubyMine. I really am. But certain things are slow, features are broken, and JetBrains can't seem to get the forums or bug tracker to work reliably enough to discuss the problems. But that's for another post...I have just a quick moment to relay something I hope helps others.I've been using the IdeaVIM plugin provided along...

So I'm in a bit deeper into learning .NET and ASP.NET, and I have to admit I like a lot of the features I see. The platform in general seems very well-designed, and I feel somewhat compelled to give it a shot. However, I'm curious...for a small entrepreneur trying to bring a web application or a rich client to market, what sort of licensing...

So I'm in a bit deeper into learning .NET and ASP.NET, and I have to admit I like a lot of the features I see. The platform in general seems very well-designed, and I feel somewhat compelled to give it a shot. However, I'm curious...for a small entrepreneur trying to bring a web application or a rich client to market, what sort of licensing...

After reading Graeme's benchmark of Rails versus Grails last night, I was troubled. Something didn't seem right, but I couldn't put my finger on it. Around 3 am...it hit me...Graeme's test was comparing a webapp deployed in Tomcat, something that's threaded out of the box, with one single mongrel process...something not threaded at all. So the...

After reading Graeme's benchmark of Rails versus Grails last night, I was troubled. Something didn't seem right, but I couldn't put my finger on it. Around 3 am...it hit me...Graeme's test was comparing a webapp deployed in Tomcat, something that's threaded out of the box, with one single mongrel process...something not threaded at all. So the...

Jared,I did just that...put a pack of mongrels up an tested it. This did allow Rails to beat Grails on two tests...Grails beat Rails on the rest. You can read about it here if you'd like:http://thoughtmining.blogspot.com/2007/03/grails-versus-rails-comparis on.html

Graeme Rocher of the Grails project has responded to my initial post and put his money where his mouth is. This performance comparison of Grails versus Rails was surprising to read...I plan on going back through it and running it myself, but in every test so far...Grails beat Rails handily. And this, according to Graeme, is an unoptimized...

Graeme Rocher of the Grails project has responded to my initial post and put his money where his mouth is. This performance comparison of Grails versus Rails was surprising to read...I plan on going back through it and running it myself, but in every test so far...Grails beat Rails handily. And this, according to Graeme, is an unoptimized...

I'm getting old. Know how I can tell? Because I've been looking towards .NET in the last year or so with more and more curiosity. I've done a good job avoiding it up until now. Why the avoidance? Well...it all started around ten years ago at a graduate school far, far away... One of my software development courses required the use of Visual...

I'm getting old. Know how I can tell? Because I've been looking towards .NET in the last year or so with more and more curiosity. I've done a good job avoiding it up until now. Why the avoidance? Well...it all started around ten years ago at a graduate school far, far away... One of my software development courses required the use of Visual...