After a meeting of the office of the CTO, most of us stayed around in our San Francisco office for a few days to do some podcasts and to participate in a Code Jam for Inveneo, a not-for-profit who provide computers and connectivity to developing countries (especially their schools, hospitals, and poorer villages). They install [...]
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Charles Nutter has just written up a nice summary of the things in Thomas Enebo‘s announcement of RC2 of JRuby 1.1 He talks in general about the astoundingly improved performance characteristics, particularly when compared to the Ruby 1.8.6 and 1.9 native interpreters, as well as the better use of JVM resources. Let alone the 260 [...]
UPDATE: 4 continents now represented. I’m not sure that we’ll ever get Antarctica, but come on South America and Africa, I know you’re out there. Calling all Agile and Lean user groups around the world. If you have an online presence, particularly with one of the usual online group sites, I encourage you to add [...]
I suppose we Aussies might give up too easily, Ola Antonio Cangiano let everyone else who isn’t on the list know the disappointing news from earlier this afternoon.
If you’re complaining to someone about how wet it is, or cold, or hot, or how much interest rates have gone up, or your shares in Acme corp have gone down, or how your neighbour turns the music up too loud and you can’t sleep – just have a reality check for a few hours [...]
