Goodbye _why.
If you’ve had your hand in Ruby or Rails, you’ve probably heard of Why the Lucky Stiff (aka, _why), an online persona of a programmer who was one of the more influential Rubyists next to Yukihiro Matsumoto (creator of Ruby, aka, Matz) and David Heinemeier Hansson (creator of Rails, aka, DHH). As of this afternoon, [...]
DataMapper Oracle Adapter for Ruby
Raimonds (@rsim) recently posted his initial version of an Oracle adapter for DataMapper.
DataMapper maps Ruby objects to relational database objects, so if you’re a Rails or JRuby developer, you can use Raimonds’ adapter to get into your Oracle databases.
Raimonds previously created an Oracle adapter for ActiveRecord, another Ruby-relational database mapping tool that he used to [...]
We’re in a Book
I just found out this morning from a new friend of the ‘Lab, Emanuele, that our work has been mentioned in print.
W00t!
Specifically, Niall Cook mentions the IdeaFactory and Mix, in his book, Enterprise 2.0: How Social Software Will Change the Future of Work. Rich is mentioned by name, and his post on building the IdeaFactory [...]
Mix Listed on Ruby on Rails.org
Over the weekend, David Heinemeier Hansson, affectionately know as DHH, creator of Rails, made updates to rubyonrails.org.
One change was the addition of Oracle Mix to the list of production apps running Rails. Check out the list; you’ll probably recognize several of the apps there, and about the middle of the page, below the fold, you’ll [...]
Ruby on Rails and BEA AquaLogic
About 40 minutes ago, Chris Bucchere posted a OpenWorld session proposal on Mix. His session is called “Building Web 2.0 Social Applications in Ruby on Rails using BEA AquaLogic Interaction.” The session will also cover optimizing your application for the iPhone (or iPod Touch). Anyone who is interested in Ruby on Rails [...]
DIY Development
The WSJ Business Technology blog has a post about “Where the Next Generation of Techies Won’t Come from“. Aside from offending my grammatical sensibilities, you know, ending a sentence with a preposition, the post interests me for a couple reasons.
The crux of the post refers to statistics published by the Computer Research Association that show [...]
Mix Gets a Plug at Google
Ola Bini of ThoughtWorks, who worked with Rich on the initial development of Mix last Fall, gave a tech talk at Google last week on “JRuby: The power of Java and Ruby“. He mentions Mix at about minute 61 and talks briefly about the project, built on the “red stack”, i.e. JRuby running on Oracle [...]
JRuby on Rails: Oracle SSO Integration
Laurent reminded me that I promised a write up of how we accomplished the Oracle SSO integration for Mix. So, I’ve created an Oracle Wiki page that has details on how it works. If you have any experience with Oracle SSO and Rails (or is working on a project that requires this), please add your [...]
Mix President’s Day Release: JRuby 1.1RC2 and a bunch of other stuff!
Since U.S. based Oracle employees don’t get President’s Day off, Anthony and I decided to deploy some new changes while everyone is off enjoying their day off. Actually, that’s not true, we deployed the new Mix changes early Sunday morning. What should have taken 10 minutes lasted 2 hours — it was a big release.
We [...]
MacWorld Brings Twitter to its Knees
So much for scaling. Steve Jobs’ keynote at MacWorld today brought Twitter to its virtual knees. The little guy’s web app is only just beginning to recover, while Twitter clients seem to be confused still about the number of requests I’ve made, meaning the Twitter API is borked too.
For those who care about Twitter, is [...]
Shout Out from Sweden
Johan “The Killer App” Myrberger has a nice post on AppsLab today. He says some nice things about AppsLab and how we’ve influenced his views of Oracle. This line is classic:
I must admit I don’t know much about Oracle as a company. I know they have a database product, but apparently they do much more. [...]
Mix Rake Stats
Artem Vasiliev asked for the Mix rake stats… here they are:
+———————-+——-+——-+———+———+—–+——-+
| Name | Lines | LOC | Classes | Methods | M/C | LOC/M |
+———————-+——-+——-+———+———+—–+——-+
| Controllers | 1825 | 1504 | 22 | 145 | 6 | 8 |
| Helpers | 248 | 217 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 5 |
| Models | [...]
Mix, JRuby on Rails, Small Teams, Agile, and it’s Effects on the World
A week after going live with Oracle Mix, we’ve gotten a considerable amount of buzz and interest from every aspect of Mix. Most everyone we’ve talked with are really happy to see Oracle becoming more transparent. Mix is a huge part of that. There are a lot of tool heads out there [...]
JRuby on Rails Application on an Oracle AppServer
Finally, something to blog about! Progress is being made. More to come later…
New Features for Connect Beta
Since we launched Connect alpha about three weeks ago, Rich has been adding new features in stealth mode leading up to our beta release, which should be finished sometime this week. We weren’t promoting the new features, just to see how people adopted them. This gave us a nice viral study, and it pointed out [...]
On JavaScripting
Now a little something for our techie readers… we do have a few right?
One aspect of Ruby on Rails that I don’t like (surprising, I know) is the bundled Prototype JavaScript library. When Prototype came out, I loved it. The $() selector introduced a novel way of writing JS code. Then other libraries came out [...]
Are you passionate about Ruby on Rails? We’re hiring!
If you love to build Web 2.0 style applications (preferably using Ruby on Rails), we’re interested in you. We’re a small team inside Oracle that’s focused on applying “2.0″ style concepts to our apps and possibly building new enterprise applications. We’re looking for someone who has a strong background with Ruby on Rails, [...]
Building a Social Enterprise Application in Under 24 Hours
Paul, Jake and I were chatting a few weeks ago wondering how we can establish an ongoing dialog with our peers in product strategy and capture the innovative ideas they have for our future products. We thought of several ways to do this:
Having conference calls to exchange ideas on a regular basis
Inviting our peers [...]
Why Ruby on Rails is the perfect framework for building next generation Enterprise Apps
Despite what Joel has to say on this topic, I think Rails is ready for the enterprise. And companies who create enterprise apps should definitely be looking at Rails. Here’s why…
Having worked with PeopleSoft for over ten years, I’ve had the pleasure to experience the joy in building enterprise applications with a rapid [...]
