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I am attempting to make the switch from Eclipse to NetBeans, and this is a raw dump of the pros and cons so far during that process. Note th...

We've been wrestling with parser speed this past week on the JRuby project, tweaking the lexer, fiddling with the grammar and parser gen...

Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI As part of his series of JRuby "howto" articles, Ola has put together an outstanding walkthrou...

InfoQ: The Resurgence of Java the Platform A prescient post from Scott Delap, InfoQ's newest Java editor. As you can probably guess, I a...

Digg: Microsoft and Sun Microsystems have observed growing interest in dynamic programming, and plan to integrate more extensive support for...

JRuby's performance has never been stellar. Even before the current performance-hindering refactoring and "correctification" w...

Currently, in order to implement a Java interface in JRuby, you extend from it like so: require 'java' include_class "java.awt....

A new member of the JRuby community, Blane Dabney, submitted a patch for JRuby socket IO to resolve a DRb issue he'd been having. Our or...

RubyConf*MI I am registered for RubyConf*MI, though it's still uncertain if I'll attend. The registration cost is a measly $20, but ...

Camping After a minor fix provided by Ola Bini (thanks Ola!) we now have Camping running under JRuby, using the ActiveRecord JDBC adapter. A...

Ok, perhaps the blogosphere can help with this one. I've been trying to respond to an email from Tor Norbye at Sun Microsystems since Su...

Some of the local Rubyists and I were talking about publishers for a future JRuby book...ligers were brought up...and, well, here's the ...

I haven't posted anything substantive in a while, but things are moving rapidly forward. Here's a quick summary of what's been g...

Well now I've gone and done it. Dear Charles, We are pleased to inform you that your RailsConf Europe 2006 presentation proposal: JRuby ...

It's 2AM. The western world is asleep. Bats flit and chatter outside my urban Minnesota home, chasing mosquitos. My available television...

I love stirring up trouble. In working on the compiler for JRuby, it's become apparent that a few targetted areas could yield tremendous...

JavaPolis 2006 - Antwerp, Belgium I have received confirmation from my employer, Ventera Corporation, that they will fund my trip to Antwer...

July 17 was a particularly big news day for JRuby. Three articles were posted, one in two places, on JRuby and the two core developers Tom a...

I keep wondering if things can continue moving along so well indefinitely. JRuby's got the momentum of a steamroller shot out of a canno...

This was originally posted to the jruby-devel mailing list, but I am desperate to be proven wrong here. We use reflection extensively to bin...