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NetBeans IDE 6.7.1 with JavaFX Now Available for Download!

The NetBeans Team is pleased to announce the release of NetBeans IDE 6.7.1, which supports the latest JavaFX SDK. Download NetBeans 6.7.1 (A JavaFX-only...

3 replies - 29749 views - 07/27/09 by Tinu Awopetu in Announcements

Ruby/Python: Constructing a taxonomy from an array using zip

As I mentioned in my previous blog post I’ve been hacking on a product taxonomy and I wanted to create a ‘CHILD’ relationship between a...

0 replies - 2243 views - 05/19/13 by Mark Needham 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 - 1167 views - 05/17/13 by Tr Jordan in Articles

Ruby – Why U No Have Nested Exceptions?

One of the things we almost always do these days when we write our libraries and apps, is use other libraries. Inevitably something will go wrong with those...

0 replies - 2988 views - 04/12/13 by Alan Skorkin in Articles

Links You Don't Want To Miss (3/13)

Python at Netflix At Netflix, engineers are allowed to use whatever technologies they feel are best suited to their current project, and more and more often,...

0 replies - 2749 views - 03/13/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Python vs. Ruby in the Knapsack Problem

The latest algorithm that we had to code in Algorithms 2 was the Knapsack problem which is as follows:The knapsack problem or rucksack...

0 replies - 5648 views - 02/26/13 by Mark Needham in Articles

Using Couchbase Ruby Gem with EventMachine

Curator's Note: The content of this article was originally written by Sergey Avseyev over at the Couchbase blog.  As you may have noticed the new...

0 replies - 1314 views - 02/13/13 by Don Pinto in Articles

REST::Neo4p - A Perl "OGM"

This is a guest post by Mark A. Jensen, a DC area bioinformatics scientist. Thanks a lot Mark for writing the impressive Neo4j Perl library and taking the...

0 replies - 2080 views - 10/24/12 by Andreas Kollegger in Articles

Caching for Fun and Profit. Or, Why Would You Ever Cache a Page for 5 Seconds?

There are a lot of ways to cache data. You can cache a piece of data, a query, a page fragment, an entire page, or an entire website. You can cache...

0 replies - 5318 views - 10/03/12 by Dan Wilson in Articles

Even Boring Form Data Can Be Interesting (For A Developer)

What could be more boring than capturing credit card data on a form? Well, it's actually not that boring -- since you may want to encrypt this particular data,...

0 replies - 2985 views - 09/24/12 by Alan Skorkin in Articles

Through the Eyes of a Newbie

The wife is interested in learning programming so she has been doing the Code Academy JavaScript course. It’s incredible to observe a person...

0 replies - 1068 views - 09/19/12 by Rob Galanakis in Articles

Fixing Bugs – There’s No Substitute for Experience

We've all heard that the only way to get good at fixing bugs in through experience – the school of hard knocks. Experienced programmers aren’t afraid...

1 replies - 8045 views - 09/08/12 by Jim Bird in Articles

Using SQL Instead of Ruby to Speed Migrations

This post originally authored by Reed Law. When building a web app, there’s often a mountain of data that I need to move from one format to another. Most...

0 replies - 1926 views - 09/06/12 by Nick Jordan in Articles

Want to Capture Screenshots in Ruby?

Use this Gem to programmatically take screenshots of websites with this completely open source and free library. We have also provided easy-to-follow...

0 replies - 2774 views - 08/09/12 by Dominic Skinner in Uncategorized

Building Your First MongoDB App in Ruby: An OSCON 2012 Tutorial

This is a 3 hour tutorial I wrote for and gave at OSCON 2012. Here is the summary: This tutorial will introduce the features of MongoDB by building a...

0 replies - 5669 views - 07/29/12 by Steve Francia in Articles