Inchoate Curmudgeon

Ikai Lan’s excellent article “JDBC Connection Pooling for Rails on Glassfish” obsoletes my September 2007 article on this subject. The importance of disconnecting from the database between queries is elaborated in the comments to the article.

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Zed Shaw is ranting about Rails. The effects are palpable. People are talking about the post. I’ve seen no less than a dozen tweets on Twitter in the last hour or so, and it has been by far the vast majority of the tweets about Rails. The post is clearly consistent with a theme of healthy […]

I stumbled across more detail from Rich Manalang regarding the Oracle Mix deployment on JRuby and the Oracle Application Server. I orginally wrote a post about this after meeting Rich and Jake at Oracle World last week. Its more than a little interesting, but not surprising or atypical, that finding production hardware consumed so much […]

The OMG Model Driven Architecture (MDA) explores the formal concept of transforming and instantiating models. “In the MDA, models are first-class artifacts, integrated into the development process through the chain of transformations from Platform Independent Model (PIM) through Platform Specific Model (PSM) to coded application.” The “coded application” terminology is bit unfortunate, since the MDA concepts, […]

If you would like to use the command line to configure Glassfish for JDBC/JNDI resources, versus the web GUI method described in my previous post, Arun has has provided this in step 5 some instructions. This replaces the Glassfish GUI steps in my post. Jagadish has some more detailed instructions for configuring JDBC connection pools […]

This post is a synthesis of information from several sources and provides step-by-step instructions for building and deploying a Ruby in Rails application to Glassfish that uses J2EE standard JDBC connection pooling mechanisms. This is the preferred method for production deployments to a J2EE server of any scale, since

it leverages J2EE deployment mechanisms, […]

I was on a staff call this morning where the subject of red-shift came up. Its a hot topic with the Sun Executive, promoted to help balance our focus between bread-and-butter data center solutions and supporting atypical, non-traditional, hyper-growth markets requiring massively scaled, extreme-availability solutions. Of course, it’s easy to pick a heated discussion in relation […]

The theme of the closing keynote by Dave Thomas at the Rails Conference was Rails is Love. But there was an undertone of anxiety in the keynote, and throughout the conference really, that Ruby might somehow become unlovely. The Ruby on Rails community has exploded. There are over 8,900 people on the Rails […]

It’s very simple. Flex on Rails is hot, and your hubby is a Rock Star. (Or maybe its the other way around, I wouldn’t know.) I got nothing in compensation for this message. Well, maybe a tee-shirt, but it doesn’t fit. Seriously, the Flexible Rails BOF way outstripped attendance expectations. Clearly, using Adobe Flex to […]

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