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I mused today on Twitter that there's just a few small things that the JVM/JDK need to become a truly awesome platform for all sorts of ...

There's lots of ways to present RESTful web services these days, and REST has obviously become the new "it's IPC no it's no...

We've often talked about the benefit of running on the JVM, and while our performance numbers have been *good*, they've never been a...

I originally started to send this to the JRuby dev list and to the Ruboto list, but realized quickly that it might make a good blog post. Si...

One of the most commonly used native extensions for Ruby is the Nokogiri XML API. Nokogiri wraps libxml and has a fair amount of C code tha...

Hello again! As you may know, I've been working part-time on a new language called Duby . Duby looks like Ruby, since it co-opts the JRu...

JRuby 1.5 will be released soon, and one of the coolest new features is the integration of Ant support into Rake, the Ruby build tool. Tom E...

This year, no major Ruby organization got accepted to Google's Summer of Code (even though a half dozen Python projects got accepted, bu...

JRuby has become notorious among Ruby implementations for having a slow startup time. Some of this is the JVM's fault, since it doesn...

Like most geeks, I watched with great anticipation as the iPad was unveiled yesterday. In my case, it was from liveblogs monitored on spotty...

(How long has it been since I last blogged? Answer: a long time. I'll try to blog more frequently now that the (TOTALLY INSANE) fall con...