I have read most of the articles out there regarding Rails performance. Performance-minded railers list fragment caching, normalize database design, proper use of indices, and the exclusion of unnecessary columns from large tables in active record models as providing a beneficial performance boost for any Rails application. These railers also warn against excessive use of [...]
In addition to the Great Java Closure Debate, I have been attentively following along the progress being made by Hans Muller with JSR 296, the proposed Swing Application Framework. In a recent interview in Artima, Hans stated that, “If we’re successful, more high quality Swing applications will be built by developers with less experience and [...]
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Flash charts just look a lot better than what we could do with plan images. Flash is a lot more interactive and since they are vector base you can zoom in and out without image deterioration. The PHP folks have a lot of great libraries for working with Flash such as Ming, PHP/SWF Charts, and [...]
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What is the first model you would create when developing a Ruby on Rails based web service? Mostly likely you would create a user model so as to authenticate users and grant them certain business specific privileges. Creating the required table, model, and views for a user is so common that there exists a great [...]
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I can best describe Yahoo!’s new service Pipes as a visual programming IDE for Web 2.0 mashups. Pipes allows you to gather, filter, truncate, analysis RSS feeds and other data sources to use that as input to other ‘modules’ all glued together with pipes. Pipes allows you to visually program web applications with prefab building [...]
I still remember the awe that struck me when I first saw for the first time Google Maps in action. I was able zoom in and out, and even circumnavigate the globe by just clicking and moving the cursor around. Google Maps really demonstrated what a web 2.0 mashup could be like. Housing Maps is [...]