Monthly Archives: November 2007

Tiger + Rails + Leopard = Ouch

Posted on November 19, 2007 by

After having gone through the pain of installing Ruby on Rails on my MacBook Pro running Tiger (OS X 10.4) I was pleased to see that Leopard (OS X 10.5) ships with Rails ‘pre-installed’ and ready to go. So, after … Continue reading →

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Rails Development Sucks on Windows

Posted on November 16, 2007 by

It takes almost ten seconds to start a Rails test on my Windows XP box. The test may report that it took it a fraction of a second to run, but it actually takes about ten seconds for it to … Continue reading →

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Spring Batch gets an airing (or flaming?)

Posted on November 12, 2007 by

An article on The Server Side recently started off some discussion on the Spring Batch framework.  Joseph Ottinger implied that there weren’t too many options for batch processing in Java (which there aren’t) which seemed to raise the hackles of … Continue reading →

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In Praise of Synergy

Posted on November 8, 2007 by

No, I don’t mean the buzzword gone bad – I mean Synergy; the software that, in its own words: lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, … Continue reading →

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