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A Ruby MapReduce Framework

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

Skynet
Skynet is an open source Ruby implementation of Google’s MapReduce framework, created at Geni. With Skynet, one can easily convert a time-consuming serial task, such as a computationally expensive Rails migration, into a distributed program running on many computers.
http://skynet.rubyforge.org/doc/index.html

Cloud’s Who Do Rails

Friday, June 6th, 2008

I recently put a short list of Rails based cloud vendors together for a family member and I thought I would share the list on this blog…
Here are some of those Rails specific cloud vendors…
Heroku
MorphExchange
 
Here are some full service cloud vendors that also do rails…
Rightscale
Mosso (not Amazon based)
Open Source
EC2onRails

I’m Telling You … About this guy…

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Twitter: Don’t blame Ruby, blame Scoble
Good article about Twitter, Ruby and the new kind of startup issues a company can have.

I need to make sure I GIT off the stage in good time tonight - Ruby Meetup

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Yuk Yuk… I am giving a Cloud Talk presentation tonight at Georgia Tech immediatly followed by a presentation about GIT. I am reasonably certain that a few folks will want me to GIT off the stage in good time. At the very least, I should have a good audio recording of the […]

Clouds to the left of me, Ruby to the right, Stuck in the middle

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Last night, I attended a local Ruby meeting here in Atlanta. Extremely nice group of people, and I look forward to attending more meetings in the future. I met some interning people, and one of them is the CEO of Morph, David Abramowski. David gave a presentation about the new Ruby […]

Analyzing Programming Languages

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Analyzing Programming Languages
I created an interesting post about some of the up-and-coming programing languages on my OSitH site. I decided not to replicate it here.

Ruby on Rails vs Java

Monday, September 10th, 2007

Ruby on Rails vs Java — ad #1 of 4
This is a very funny podcast.

Night Three in Austin

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

Tonight, I attended an “Intro to Ruby & Rails Charity Workshop.” The four-hour event featured a full list of leading Ruby and Rails authors. The best thing about this event is that it was a charity event that raised $3k in donations. (The cost of attendance was simply a donation.) The speakers donated their […]

TIOBE Programming Community Index for September 2007

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

TPCI - TIOBE Programming Community Index