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Video: Why Chef for Cloud Automation?

This is just a short and sweet video cooked up by the Opscode 'Ninja Strike Squad' about why one might want to use Chef, an open source data center and cloud...

0 replies - 3481 views - 10/27/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

Introducing Jump Start Rails

I’ve written a book called “Jump Start Rails” that covers getting up and running with Rails 4.0. The book is already available from my publisher’s...

0 replies - 634 views - 06/14/13 by Andy Hawthorne in Articles

I infiltrated another Rails Girls event, #RailsGirlsMb

  Rails Girls Maribor heart Last time I infiltrated a Rails Girls event angry internet feminists gave me a lot of flak about volunteering a day to...

0 replies - 924 views - 06/05/13 by Swizec Teller in Articles

Ruby, Python, Java, C and Programmer Happiness

“Ruby is designed to make programmers happy.” - Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto Not everyone might agree, but as a Rubyist I think Matz achieved his...

0 replies - 4624 views - 06/05/13 by Pat Shaughnessy in Articles

Your First Ruby Gem

I live-coded a new gem called Ruby::Enum at NYC.rb on Tuesday. This library adds enum-like functionality to Ruby.  Here’s my checklist for creating a new...

0 replies - 2082 views - 05/18/13 by Daniel Doubrovkine in Articles

Monitoring Background Jobs in Ruby’s Resque

How to get visibility into an important component of any complex system: the messaging queueHere at AppNeta, we get to see a lot about how people build their...

0 replies - 1508 views - 05/17/13 by Tr Jordan in Articles

Links You Don't Want To Miss (May 7)

Are video codecs written in JavaScript the future? Mozilla has been showing off its new ORBX.js, a video codec roughly comparable to H.264 that can be...

0 replies - 2226 views - 05/06/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Debugging Stuck Ruby Processes: What to do Before You Kill -9

RailsConf 2013 has begun! To celebrate, we’re publishing a series of blog post that highlight what’s new and exciting in the world of New Relic’s Ruby...

0 replies - 1270 views - 05/06/13 by Leigh Shevchik in Articles

Instrumenting Ruby on Rails with TraceView in Under 10 Minutes

SourceTraceView by AppNeta provides deep performance monitoring of web applications. It gives you insight into your web application performance such as...

0 replies - 750 views - 05/02/13 by Peter Giacomo L... in Articles

The Windows Azure SDK for Ruby

If you haven't heard, there's now a Ruby SDK for Windows Azure that provides access to Windows Azure Data Management services and some Service Bus...

0 replies - 813 views - 04/29/13 by Larry Franks in Articles

Modularity Still Utterly Elusive, Decades Later

Quick, when was Modula 2 created (by the legendary Niklaus Wirth)? Did you guess 1977? Bet not. Was having a discussion this morning with Kenan on a range...

0 replies - 2498 views - 04/24/13 by Rob Williams in Articles

Grape vs. Poncho

There’re a number of excellent micro-frameworks to author RESTful APIs in Ruby. Let’s take a look at the newcomer, Poncho, from the Stripe team, brought up...

0 replies - 1379 views - 04/11/13 by Daniel Doubrovkine in Articles

Building an Asynchronous Communication Layer w/ XMPP, Ruby, Javascript

Although XMPP is most often used as a chat protocol, it can also provide a robust asynchronous communication channel in other application scenarios. In this...

0 replies - 1230 views - 04/04/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Cloudbursing with Amazon EC2 and SQS

The concept of cloudbursting is very appealing. Who wouldn't want to maximize control and minimize costs by running a few servers in-house and borrowing...

0 replies - 1548 views - 03/29/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Getting Productive with the AWS SDK for Ruby

Learn best practices for using the AWS SDK for Ruby, including configuration, logging, debugging, consuming high and low level interfaces, collections,...

0 replies - 1417 views - 03/28/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles