Charles Nutter has announced the completion of the JRuby compiler. This means that firstly we have more compiler options (which is never a bad thing), and secondly that Ruby/Rails apps can now be compiled to Java bytecode - so it’s possible to distribute your application without distributing the source.
So, as Ryan Stewart aptly put it: “WTF is Thermo?”. All we have so far is a job description (below) and a few cryptic posts from Adobe employees under NDAs.
“enable designers and creatively inclined developers to easily build rich internet applications and interactive content. “Thermo” will streamline the process of adding interactivity, behavior and motion […]
I’ve been playing around with RESTfull procedures, trying to get a link (or something that looks like one) to use the same method and url, regardless of whether JavaScript is enabled or not.
Rails has the link_to_remote, which accepts a ‘method’ option. This is all fine and dandy if you have JavaScript enabled, but, as soon […]
It’s been a summer of change.
For example, this post is a change to the general monotony of this blog for the past month or so.
Another change is that I’ve “switched”; not, you understand, a gender related issue, but rather OS related. I’ve had a mac-mini as a home server for a while, but I’ve […]
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