I fix the servers that run your serverless applications.
I have read Markus Karg's "Release late, release rarely" three times today. The title itself is provocative and it was linked to by a person that I work with and respect.
Updated on 5/2/2013. Many thanks to Mike Ditto for pointing out that I had made a mistake in the original article and used the principle definition twice. I have updated the article with a better definition for principal.
I constantly see principle and...
Read More...Stu Halloway tweeted about the following Pastie earlier today:
He questioned the counterintuitive result of blank? returning false on an empty Java array. He then asked which whether Ruby, JRuby or Rails were the culprit.
I played with the Rails console...
Read More...My first mandate when I joined Project Kenai was to improve it's performance. Kenai wasn't known for being speedy back then. We had some serious performance issues with both page rendering in the browser as well as generating the content on the server...
Read More...I firmly believe that any developer who doesn't use the different tools available to communicate outside of the bubble that is the people they work with or the company they work for is short changing him (or her) self.
These tools are varied. Twitter...
Read More...The Colorado Springs Open Source Users Group record the presentation that are given to their group. Here is the recording that was made of my abbreviated introduction to JRuby:
Basic Concepts - Frederic Jean (Intro to JRuby) from Kevin Werner...
Read More...The JRuby MemCache Client uses Greg Whalin's Java based MemCache client to connect to the servers that implement the MemCache protocol. This client uses a connection pool to connect to and communicate with the memcached servers.
There is one pool by...
Read More...You can just feel the panic rising. You were logged into the production database fixing a few records when you made a small mistake with disastrous consequence.
So what should you do next?
Stop.
Step away from the keyboard.
Breath.
Get help.
Odds are...
Read More...I wrote a post about using the jruby_memcache_client Rails plugin to manage sessions. Since then, Abhi Yerra made a fork of Ikai Lan's repository and turned it into a gem. I promptly merged his changes into my repository and I am now publishing my own...
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Frederic Jean