There’s no shortage of choice when it comes to application servers for Ruby/Rack apps. This talk will explain some of the differences between several options, explore configuration required to get them running, and attempt to benchmark performance of a simple application running behind each.
Are you curious about Ruby? Perhaps you’ve heard fantastic things about how Ruby makes you 100 times more productive. Or maybe you’ve heard the hype about this fantastic web framework called Rails that allows to you build your complete app in 5 minutes during a coffee break. And all this …
There was a time when mobile computing and productized apps were magic fairy dust that sprinkled money all over a project. Those were good times. The big bang, the heady expansion, the flash of chaos as the past gave way to the future. But now that the future is the …
Professor (emeritus) David Turner, formally at the University of Kent and St Andrews, gives his invited talk about Functional Programming Languages at the Trends in Functional Programming (TFP) symposium at the University of St Andrews.
Measurement, metrics, and statistics can be powerful tools for understanding the software development world. Measures and metrics abound in software engineering, QA, and especially testing. Coming up with numbers is the easiest part. Making some computations using the numbers is straightforward. Getting meaningful, useful metrics is a whole different story. …
Let’s face it: DVCS is here to stay. But what’s the point? There’s a million tutorials on the internet that tell you what to type in Git, but not why! Go one level deeper: A few straightforward concepts and some pictures, and Git will magically make sense.
