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18y ago
"A few people objected that it won’t fly, because it’s going to be a commercial product. I don’t think that’s the case. The Rails community adopts Macs, TextMate, and other commercial software without blinking" The Ruby community should be
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but the point is, wouldn't having all the brushes you need and all the colors/paints you need ... aid you create more art ... or just make your life better in anyway no body said PHP or Java are unusuable, the argument is usually that using
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18y ago
I really liked this articles, it explains how RoR is tradionnally installed in fair amount of details, and then explain the advantages of using an Application Server, glassfish in this case.
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Rails Powered by the GlassFish Application Server (Mongrel vs Glassgfish)
(developers.sun.com)
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The latest relevant update I found was this talk he gave at google http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEkJvvGEtB4 I think most of you stumbled upon it, I also believe it was even mentioned on hacker news before
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18y ago
Sun seems serious about Ruby ... I wonder for how long or for how far!
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Free Ruby on Rails book (require free registration)
(netbeans.org)
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18y ago
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Cross Compare of SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL
(postgresonline.com)
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" Erlang doesn’t have loops — it uses recursion for everything " Doesn't this make the language a bit of a brain tease! What harm can a For Loop do? The best argument I heard against static typing, that for many tasks the type system forc
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The Perl Foundation receives $200,000 donation in support of Perl 6 development
(perlfoundation.org)
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18y ago
i think instant scalability will come from an application server, something like glassfish for example deploy your application to glassfish and let your AS scale it
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18y ago
okay, the main point in what you are saying is true. if a company is working in a market that is reaching maturity or decline, it should look for a new market where it can invest its effort but the trick is simple, MS have certain competenc
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18y ago
I have several questions, because I feel there should be a better system approach to this twitter problem is there any publicly available documentation for twitter's architecture? did they use consultant help, did they contact SUN, IBM, Ora
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18y ago
From the article I found this graph interesting http://gigaom.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/xobni_mail_client_... . Outlook 400 M - Lotus 250 M - Yahoo Mail 260 M - Hotmail 200 - Gmail 100 - Apple Mail 50 M - Thunderbird 30 M This totals 129
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"how come it swallows so much of my screen real estate" I second that,the first thing i do in Outlook, Visual Studio, Eclipse ... is reorganize the panes to maximize the editor area. For oulook this would be the email body and email list
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Java Web Framework Tournament 2008
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18y ago
If things like hi5 and myspace - in my opinion - much worst than facebook, are still going strong, I can't see how facebook won't continue to be relevant for at least few more years I kind of share your same observation, most of my friends
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18y ago
Postgresql 1. license less confusing 2. great mailing list support
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18y ago
This is very neat, and responsive too ... I am impressed!
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it would be nice if arc was to be implemented on the JVM, it will be instantly portable, easy to install .. both of which can boost arc's popularity and adoption
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18y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics#History_and_schools_o... Most books can be very dry, i would recommend looking for something more edgy and opinionated This is why i recommend googling and reading online articles such as the link ab
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18y ago
its obvious, just look beyond the UI Bill Gates, himself, once the richest man in the USA and the richest in the world, said he liked XOBNI, this alone means XOBNI is like the new MS or the new Google! Which makes it worth at least 200,000,
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19y ago
skillset is a really good word i am really surprised how facebook, so quikly found the skillset to build a 10,000 server site and how come, twitter didnt! just why ... its the skillset, but again why was facebook successful in aquiring the
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19y ago
well when the pharoes (africans) built the pyramids, it made everyone else jealous and it kinda jynx-ed the continent for the following several thousands years this is why we africans dont wonna build another thing that will draw much atten
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http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?no_d2=1&sid=08/04/26...
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" ... that might well be because I’m a very strange person" I completely agree he does sound like a very strange person, some of his opinions are not what you would expect from a person in stature, to the degree that made me doubt the integ
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19y ago
I read the techcrunch article and in my opinion it wasn't that bad It nice to be able to say as it is and not decorated, the guy failed and he left or was made to leave. lesson learned: scaling is hard!
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19y ago
when i read the title i expected it to be about asp.net most people do use it :/ and they are silent
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Tcl have uniform syntax Tcl have a small number of basic concept that you can learn in a very small amount of time Tcl allow you to easily create new commands that look just like built-in commands Tcl have uniform syntax, yes again. I love
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19y ago
have you seen http://www.tableausoftware.com I see tableau doesnt support google docs as a datasource, but still, your software seems pretty close to what they offer the BI (business intelligence) arena have man big players Cognos, MS, SA
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