JVM is awesome! Many people that bash Java make the mistake of mixing up the Java language and the Java platform. Sure, the Java language is verbose; it lacks closures, mixins, etc. But the JVM is freaking awesome. It’s blazing fast, it…
Continue Reading…Once upon a time, Java arguably the Dinosaur of the coding world was the dominant force in programming. A person needed to approach software and webpage development with the mind of an engineer and the ability to think in complex, yet highly…
Continue Reading…JRuby has been in the news a lot recently: just a couple of weeks ago JRuby 1.6.7 was released, JRubyConf is coming up soon, and over the past several months there’s been a lot of buzz about the upcoming JRuby 1.7 release…
Continue Reading…If you’ve never had to do some hacking or monkey patching, then odds are you haven’t written or deployed a JRuby standalone or web application. Ok, that’s a bit dramatic but over the past year, while working with JRuby, I’ve had to…
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