This session will overview cloud provisioning tools written in java and clojure. First, we’ll overview general provisioning concerns and how devops relates to the java landscape. We will show examples that work on several clouds via use of the jclouds framework. Examples will include using Whirr to manage hadoop and …
This short video demonstrates some Riak’s 0.8 new features: the ability to write map/reduce queries in JavaScript. Riak is a document database and key/value store, designed to store semi-structured documents or objects of varying sizes. It uses the erlang_js project to integrate Mozilla’s Spidermonkey engine directly into Riak to keep …
Kris Rice of Oracle sat down with ODTUG Board Member Barbara Morris in 2009 to talk about the newest release of Oracle’s SQLDeveloper.
The Android mobile platform has exploded in popularity since it was released. Android has become a major competitor to iPhone, with no end in sight. Unfortunately, to take advantage of the platform you needed to know Java…until now. JRuby works unmodified on Android, and so as part of the 2010 …
Ready for life as a game? From farming games on Facebook to Four Square check ins on Twitter games are a powerful force for driving traffic, shaping user behavior, and creating engagement. However, adding points and awarding badges are only part of the story. Based on XEODesign’s 18 years of …
merge and announced the beginning of a series of efforts from where would emerge Rails 3.0. Since the announcement, the community was surrounded by questions about how the future would look like. Will Rails change its philosophy? Which concepts will Merb bring to Rails? Now, almost two years later, Rails …
