
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

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

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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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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