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Ruby VM’s in 2010

Hers’s an outstanding, very detailed article on where Ruby VM’s are going in 2010 as their development accelerates and makes the language much more broadly available, by Ilya Grigorik at Igvita.com. He calls it a rennaissance. A nice “here’s where we are now” review of eight different Ruby VM’s: MRI, JRuby, MacRuby, MagLev, Ruby Enterprise [...] (translate)

Flash Catalyst

Over at United Mindset Jonathan Campos has an excellent write-up on Adobe Flash Catalyst. As a developer he thinks of it as the missing visual editor for Flash Builder, as you can really edit and create within Flash Catalyst, and get the generated code to copy into your Flash Projects. He walks us through creating [...] (translate)

Rails Deployment

Vinsol has a nice eleven-item checklist of rails deployment best practices to follow when you are deploying your rails app to a production server. (translate)

Javascript Scroll Clock

Interesting scroll clock created Toki Woki, with Javascript /Mootools. Hey it’s Friday geeks, have some fun. Via DaringFireball. (translate)

Voice Typing Software

I’ve been using MacSpeech Dictate for a week now and I have two things to report that I didn’t know when I did my initial review of this voice activated typing software. On about day three I was sitting while holding the headset that is included with the Dictate software as I spoke into it. (I [...] (translate)

Google Image Swirl Review

As basic as images are to the Internet it’s no surprise that Google’s approach to image search, born back in 2001, continues to evolve. Good thing too because it was always pretty slow going, plodding through pages of images results that didn’t really have what you wanted. Recently they added a link to “similar images” [...] (translate)

Looking For Company Name

Have you ever played around with random business name generators? I used half an hour that I’ll never get back today looking for a company name or a graphic design company that my wife may or may not create. “Advanced Depictions” anyone? The key to creating brandable names is a word combination that is memorable, [...] (translate)

Google Thoughts

Here’s a nice overview of Google’s new language, Go, by Scott Gilbertson over at Webmonkey. Includes a 1-hr video on Go developer Rob Pike. From the Chromium blog Google announces that it has an early-stage research project for something they call SPDY (”speedy!”), the purpose of which might be to replace the HTTP protocol. Techchrunch claims to [...] (translate)

Google Toolbar Preferences

OK so I was playing around with Google toolbar preferences and realized that there is a much easier way to access lot of Google functionality that I use very regularly, without necessarily having to have Gmail open all the time so that I could hit the links in the upper left corner, or much worse, the [...] (translate)

How To Build IPhone Apps

We hear a lot of complaints about how difficult it is to navigate the app store and distinguish quality applications from mediocre ones. There are amusing statistics on how few times lots of iPhone applications are actually used after they are downloaded, and anecdotes on how everybody and his cousin has a great idea and [...] (translate)

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