jRuby • Apr 07, 2010 Easy Data Visualization with JFreeChart The next time you’re looking to visualize data in your JRuby or Java application, don’t overlook JFreeChart.
Planning Your Project • Mar 24, 2010 Why We Probably Won’t Sign Your NDA Entrepreneurs and potential customers sometimes ask us to sign non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) as part of figuring out whether we can help them or not.
Java • Mar 18, 2010 Lazy Thread-Safe Collections in Java I recently needed to update some Java code that was frequently making unecessary calls to an external web service.
Software Science • Feb 24, 2010 "All input is evil until proven otherwise. That’s rule number one." The simplicity of this approach means that the instruction set doesn’t have to change and the code stays binary-compatible.
Java • Feb 23, 2010 Better Java with Google Collections I have been using the Google Collections library for the past 6 months or so on a variety of Java projects, with great success.
jRuby • Feb 01, 2010 The Case for Embedding jruby-complete into Your Application Here are a few reasons why you might want to embed JRuby into your application instead of relying on a regular Ruby or JRuby installation.
jRuby • Feb 01, 2010 Running a Ruby Application with jruby-complete In a JRuby project, it’s easy to run Ruby programs without installing Ruby. All you need is a JVM runtime and jruby-complete.
Technical Practices • Jan 29, 2010 Testing Terminology I have a simple taxonomy for the sorts of tests that developers create: unit, integration, and system.
Ruby • Jan 11, 2010 Making Friends with FFI If you want your C code to play nicely with the other VMs out there, then FFI (foreign function interface) is the answer.
