Java

Let’s forget about that for a while. Ola Bini and the JRuby team is quickly moving forward with something I would consider a breakthrough in Rails deployment options. In fact, it could well mean a breakthrough in Rails adoption in many organizations. Why (some) IT-managers like Rails but don’t like deploying it When I was a consultant I talked to many IT-managers that had heard about Ruby on Rails. They were intrigued by the fact that Ruby and Rails were created for developers rather than machines. Most of them realized that developer time costs more than computer performance today (although some of them were still spending money at developers writing unnecessarily complicated code to run fast on hardware that costs less than 20 developer hours). ...

Google’s Code search is a great way to spend an evening. Indexing a hefty amount of source code reveals anger, frustration and hate. Some favourites: I hate Java Java sucks Python sucks I hate Microsoft I hate DTDs (that is REXML by the way…) Interestingly, searching for “Ruby sucks” does not return any matching documents…

If you are using RadRails when developing your Ruby in Rails applications you will be interested in increasing performance. Christian Pelczarski has an interesting instruction on how you can boost performance of the Eclipse/RadRails combo by switching to the latest Sun JVM (version 6.0) for Windows XP. You can usually get some extra performance by setting the initial heap size and the max heapsize to the same, thus bypassing the dynamic growing/shrinking of the heap. ...

My colleague Marcus Ahnve is blogging from Javapolis 2005 in Antwerp, Belgium. For the latest information about EJB3, Dolphin, Java Server Faces and Spring 2.0 see Head On.