JRuby Kafka v2.0 and v1.5 released
The stars aligned December 31, 2015 and jruby-kafka got two releases v2.0 and v1.5 to celebrate and end the year on a high note. Both versions are now available…
When talking time zones: Bogota != Eastern Time (US & Canada)!
Ive been using the timezone localization technique of asking the browser when the page loads what the browsers timezone offset from UTC is, and posting that back to the…
Things I Learned About Last Week
Last week was the crucial week on my current Lucene -> Solr conversion project for making our goals. A lot of work the previous couple of weeks came together. I…
Streaming Index Progress Results to Browser
I recently needed to index from a local filesystem several thousand static webpages into Solr. I was already using Ruby on Rails for the admin interface, so I quickly…
Eric Pugh to speak on Solr at Shenandoah Ruby Users Group October 27th
From the Meetup site: Well look at the thriving Ruby ecosystem that has grown up around integrating with Solr. From Ruby gems that integrate with Solr like solrb and…
My First Plugin
Working at a small company like OSC allows for group bonding “work” activities such as RailsRumble, which create a good working environment and helps develop our skills. If you…
A new deployment tool for the Rails world?
I think there is an opportunity for an alternative to Capistrano for managing deployments in the Rails world…. Jamis Buck recently blogged that that he was exhausted and done…
Azimuth Treasure Hunt App: Release the Hounds!
As Eric already indicated in a previous post, this past weekend 4 members of the OpenSource Connections team competed in Rails Rumble 2008. We built a Ruby on Rails…
Ruby DCamp
Ruby DCamp is the first conference, of any type related to ruby or my recent work with Ruby on Rails, I have attended since graduating from UVa. I have…
Trip Report: Shenandoah Ruby User Group
Last week four of us from RubyCodeJam took the trip over the mountain to Harrisonburg, VA to join ShRUG for the evening. Alex Herron had arranged for Rich Kilmer…
Rails vs. Django: a Beginners Point of View
For an agile web developer two frameworks are available for quick and easy deployment of a new website: Ruby on Rails for the Ruby fans and Django for the…
Deploying Ruby to DreamHost
Recently, I completed my first Ruby on Rails application, which you can see here. Its not a complex application, basically its a survey of political candidates with three data…