Recent Other Writings

Last week, IBM published an article I wrote on using JRuby on Rails with Apache Derby. It concentrates on rapid prototyping/development. I didn't get too heavily into the IDE side of things, but when you add RadRails into the equation it really is nirvana-ish development. Very fun.

I've also been writing a lot on InformIT about Java Concurrency in Practice. I did some fun stuff over there too, like try to turn some Project Euler code into parallel code. I guess technically that succeeded just fine, but is a good example of when parallel code is not any faster. In this case, the algorithm was CPU bound anyways. Even having two cores didn't really help much. Oh well. I treated it like a strength exercise back when I took piano lessons.

Blogging about Books

I mentioned some new books that I am reading. The publisher of those books gave me the opportunity to blog about them while I read them. I thought that would be fun, and would give me extra motivation to read the books thoroughly. I am blogging about them directly on their site InformIT. Here is the RSS feed of my blog over there and here is the first post. It is on the Core Python book that I am reading.