Ok, I've been dipping my toe into Groovy for the past week or so, including some Grails thrown in for good measure. I like what I see. In a previous life, I was a long-time Java developer, and even after a shift to management almost four years ago, I still code on an almost daily basis. I've been searching for awhile now for a dynamic language...

Ok, I've been dipping my toe into Groovy for the past week or so, including some Grails thrown in for good measure. I like what I see. In a previous life, I was a long-time Java developer, and even after a shift to management almost four years ago, I still code on an almost daily basis. I've been searching for awhile now for a dynamic language...

I often find myself wanting to capture sections of my screen to an image. Since I'm on Linux, the typical thing I do is fire up the Gimp and use its capture tool to snapshot a window, and then crop the window to contain the content I'm after. It's as cumbersome as it is functional. I work with a few folks who use SnagIt for Windows. With it,...

I often find myself wanting to capture sections of my screen to an image. Since I'm on Linux, the typical thing I do is fire up the Gimp and use its capture tool to snapshot a window, and then crop the window to contain the content I'm after. It's as cumbersome as it is functional. I work with a few folks who use SnagIt for Windows. With it,...

After a long time using RadRails for Ruby/Rails development, I've finally grown tired of waiting on updates. No knock on the RadRails guys...it's free after all and they have jobs and lives to tend to. Still, I've looked at the Netbeans projects from afar for awhile (I used it long ago for Java dev and wasn't impressed, but it's been a looong...

After a long time using RadRails for Ruby/Rails development, I've finally grown tired of waiting on updates. No knock on the RadRails guys...it's free after all and they have jobs and lives to tend to. Still, I've looked at the Netbeans projects from afar for awhile (I used it long ago for Java dev and wasn't impressed, but it's been a looong...

Wow...applied a gift certificate at Amazon.com last night to buy Groovy in Action...suddenly, I'm $9,999,999,964.51 richer. An instant billionaire! (Wonder if they'll make me accept payout in books? Hmm...well, ok).

Wow...applied a gift certificate at Amazon.com last night to buy Groovy in Action...suddenly, I'm $9,999,999,964.51 richer. An instant billionaire! (Wonder if they'll make me accept payout in books? Hmm...well, ok).

Response from Charles O Nutter of the JRuby project: Not sure if you want replies on the blog or not, but the scenario you illustrate should be easily possible in the future. As you mention, we do have plans for a compiler...both AOT and JIT, so if you have a Rails app you want to compile ahead-of-time, you can. We're also not dependent on...

Response from Charles O Nutter of the JRuby project: Not sure if you want replies on the blog or not, but the scenario you illustrate should be easily possible in the future. As you mention, we do have plans for a compiler...both AOT and JIT, so if you have a Rails app you want to compile ahead-of-time, you can. We're also not dependent on...

I've been pushing one of our Java developers to give Ruby a try. He's resisted so far and we rib him quite a bit about it. As part of an email thread this morning, I responded with the following modified quote, which seemed to go over well and resulted in a request to post it to the web. Forgive me, Mr. Lucas: Ruby: There is no escape. Don't...

I've been pushing one of our Java developers to give Ruby a try. He's resisted so far and we rib him quite a bit about it. As part of an email thread this morning, I responded with the following modified quote, which seemed to go over well and resulted in a request to post it to the web. Forgive me, Mr. Lucas: Ruby: There is no escape. Don't...

I really enjoy Rails. I've worked with a few pet Rails projects here and there and trust me...as an old Perl/PHP/Java guy, there are some very nice benefits that you quickly take for granted when you implement an idea in Rails. However, I'd really like the ability to write a web application in Rails and distribute this to potential...

I really enjoy Rails. I've worked with a few pet Rails projects here and there and trust me...as an old Perl/PHP/Java guy, there are some very nice benefits that you quickly take for granted when you implement an idea in Rails. However, I'd really like the ability to write a web application in Rails and distribute this to potential...

Ah...the joys of configuration and release management... We've been having discussions of how best to manage releases in our group at work. Using the Pragmatic Version Control book's chapter on tags and branching as a starting point, we're working our way towards a more efficient process across all of our applications. I...