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More FAQs about JRuby and Sun

over 5 years ago by Charles Oliver Nutter on Headius.
There's been a lot of buzz about Tom and my new jobs at Sun, and understandably so. The response so far has been overwhelmingly positive, and we're grateful...

JRuby Steps Into the Sun

over 5 years ago by Charles Oliver Nutter on Headius. [Linked from: Gluttonous]
It's going to be a big news day for JRuby :)The two core JRuby developers, myself and Thomas Enebo, will become employees at Sun Microsystems this month...

ActiveRecord-JDBC 0.2.1 Released!

over 5 years ago by Charles Oliver Nutter on Headius.
I told you it would only be a couple days!ActiveRecord 0.2 has been released. (It's actually 0.2.1 because of a minor Gem glitch)Ola wraps it up in the...

More ActiveRecord Information

over 5 years ago by Charles Oliver Nutter on Headius.
Supporting More DatabasesA number of folks have asked about support for database X. We want to support all possible databases, of course, and JDBC gives...

Java Regex Broken for Alternation over Large Strin...

over 5 years ago by Charles Oliver Nutter on Headius.
This is a serious bummer.I've been working through some of Rails's test cases this evening. Since I've got Depot running reasonably well now and I know...

Using the ActiveRecord-JDBC Adapter

over 5 years ago by Charles Oliver Nutter on Headius.
Ola Bini, Nick Sieger, and others have been making great progress on the ActiveRecord-JDBC adapter lately. I figure it's a good time for a brief update...

From Eclipse to NetBeans: Part 3

over 5 years ago by Charles Oliver Nutter on Headius.
I got a lot of good tips from NetBeans developers and users about how to resolve some of the issues I ran into. A number of them, as I mostly expected,...

Performance: Block Variables Breakdown

over 5 years ago by Charles Oliver Nutter on Headius.
In response to my previous blog, Chris Nokleberg noted that if we're using String#equals a lot, interning will have an additional benefit...namely because...

Performance: Inlining Strings

over 5 years ago by Charles Oliver Nutter on Headius.
A while ago, we decided to inline all appropriate symbolic strings as they entered the AST. This appeared to help performance a measurable amount, presumably...

My London Schedule

over 5 years ago by Charles Oliver Nutter on Headius.
So here's the times and places. I want to get together JRubyists to just chat a bit at some point, and it seems like Thursday or Friday would work best...