The Cray XT5 "Jaguar" supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory is now the world's fastest computing system according to the TOP500...
0 replies - 1169 views - 11/20/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
It was announced this morning that closures would be added to JDK 7. Mark Reinhold made the announcement at the Devoxx conference. Before today, Sun could...
0 replies - 2086 views - 11/19/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
The EU could issue a formal objection to the Oracle-Sun deal within the next few days according to a Financial Times report. Just a few weeks ago, the EU's...
1 replies - 2731 views - 11/05/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
Justin.tv has just released an API for their live video streaming. Both Ruby and Python libraries are currently available. The API, which has been in...
0 replies - 1264 views - 07/30/09 by CodeJustin in News
A ticket is a familiar object, with a known set of properties and behaviors. Let’s take a high-level view at what we expect a ticket-like Ruby object to do...
2 replies - 2807 views - 01/28/09 by Schalk Neethling in News
Do you want to come to the metaparty? Okay it is not a party tool it is a political site in German where the party member itself create the party platform....
0 replies - 3662 views - 12/19/08 by Peter Karich in News
Classes are special objects: they’re the only kind of object that has the power to spawn new objects (instances). Nonetheless, they’re objects. When you...
0 replies - 4296 views - 12/18/08 by Schalk Neethling in News
Didn't you just totally sell out? -- Obie Fernandez @ Rails Summit Latin AmericaObie and I are good friends. He wasn't trying to insult me. I was talking about...
5 replies - 6225 views - 10/30/08 by Jay Fields in News
It is easy to use open-uri and Net::HTTP. Well, easy is a relative term. Building a client library to access our task manager service will still require a fair...
0 replies - 4281 views - 09/16/08 by Schalk Neethling in News
In part 1 of REST with Rails we had an introduction to creating RestFull services with Rails. In this article we will be looking into serving this content...
0 replies - 14053 views - 09/09/08 by Schalk Neethling in News
In this first part I will show you how to build RESTful services using Rails. REST is an architectural style modeled after the Web. Basically, it codifies the...
1 replies - 6240 views - 09/04/08 by Schalk Neethling in News
