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When Server Load Goes to the Moon – Slicehost ‘resize’ Comes to the Rescue

One of the member sites of The Buzz Media ran a story this morning that caused the load on the host server to go pas ‘11′… waaaay way past ‘11′ – to 257.89 to be exact according to ‘top’ (above). This host server was not in a load-balanced configuration when the rush happened, we weren’t able [...]

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Ruby 1.9 Quick Speed Test

It has been a while since I’ve had a chance to play with Ruby, and with 1.9.1 coming out in January I figured I’d go ahead and install 1.9 to get a feel.  Since speed was always an issue in 1.8 I figured I’d re-run my fib.rb script to find the fibonacci number for 35.  [...]

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JaxaFX 1.0 Released – Not a Great First User Experience

Please keep in mind I’m wearing my “Joe average user” hat that this platform is suppose to target as a delivery platform (and simplify developer’s lives in the process). I’ll admit that I’ve always had trouble with the Java plugin and Firefox on my old Windows XP SP2 desktop, Windows XP SP3 laptop and my Windows [...]

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Sun, IBM and Microsoft Host Workshop to Combine VM Efforts

Sun recently held a 3-day workshop where technical leads and directors from IBM and Microsoft were invited to join together at the Sun campus to try and work on consolidating Virtual Machine efforts going forward; more specifically focused on developing solutions that would yield Java-like performance for Ruby, Python, PHP, and Scala on the JVM. No [...]

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