Programming and politics

This morning, my co-worker Jason Swartz had the great idea of a conference focussing on JVM languages . This seemed like a particularly go...

In October, I am speaking at the inaugural Strange Loop conference in St. Louis . This is not your run of the mill conference. It is organiz...

Below are the sldies. Major thanks to Charlie Nutter for great feedback and advice on the Ruby code and tuning JRuby performance. Thanks to ...

See this post for an explanation on why this code is being shown and what kind of responses would be useful. See this post for the Java al...

Last week, IBM published an article I wrote on using JRuby on Rails with Apache Derby . It concentrates on rapid prototyping/development. I ...

All of my recent excursions into Python convinced me it was time to try out Jython. I have had a great experiences with JRuby. It is definit...

It's been awhile since I did a post with pretty graphs and meaningless micro-benchmarks. I am using the latest version of JRuby, 1.1.3 o...

A couple of days ago, I read Charlie's post explaining the performance boost seen in Groovy 1.6 . Reading stuff like this always leaves ...

In the aftermath of my post on JRuby's performance, I exchanged some info with Mr. JRuby himself, Charles Nutter . Per his request, I op...

During my lunch today, I solved Problem 12 from Project Euler . As usual, I wrote the solution in Ruby and was surprised by just how long i...