Installing Ruby Extensions on Solaris

July 12th, 2007 All these three languages are generating a lot of buzz in the blogosphere. It appears Java is currently having an upswing while Ruby is having a downward trend.

March 25th, 2006 Ruby and ROR fanatics have adopted a highly annoying habit of luring hapless readers with highly provocative titles like "Ruby is not ready for production. Definitive proof".

December 18th, 2005 JRuby is a project to watch for. It implements Ruby on Java virtual machine.

June 30th, 2006 Most Java programmers attempt to use Ruby like they use Java, similar to the mistakes C/C++ programmers commit when transitioning to Java. However Ruby provides a cleaner programming paradigm which if embibed can be effectively used to solve your problems.

April 5th, 2006 An interesting chart comparing available jobs for these four popular languages - java, php, python and ruby. All of them are extensively used for web application development.

July 31st, 2006 jEdit is a popular Java based code editor. I have used it extensively and highly recommend it.

June 26th, 2006 Sun Certified Security Administrator for Solaris 10 OS (311-303) If you are an expert security administrator, this is your golden opportunity to get certified for free by taking Solaris 10 Sun Certified Security Administrator exam. Sun beta exams count towards official Security Certification.

July 21st, 2005 This is the first of two articles in which we describe how to acquire and build the source code for OpenSolaris. The first article provides all the necessary background information (terminology, where to get the tools, and so on) and describes a basic compilation and installation, and the second article will describe a more complicated compilation and installation.

June 13th, 2008 Sun is offering three free assessment tests for Solaris 10 operating system focusing on Unix Essential and System Administration. They are for the following certifications: UNIX Essentials Featuring the Solaris 10 Operating System Objectives: Use command-line features and help resources Manage and view files and directories and change the directory contents Create and modify files and use basic file permissions Create ACLs Control the user work environment Use commands within the shell Perform basic process and job control Archive files and create archives Compress, view, and uncompress files Perform remote file transfers Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA) for the Solaris 10 Operating System (Part 1) Objectives: Manage file systems Install software Perform system boot procedures Perform user and security administration Manage network printers and system processes Perform system backups and restores Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA) for the Solaris 10 Operating System (Part 2) Objectives: Describe network basics and the client-server model Describe remote administration with the Solaris Management Console Manage swap configuration Manage crash dumps and core files Configure NFS and AutoFS Describe RAID and Solaris Volume Manager software concepts Configure Solaris Volume Manager software Configure RBAC Configure system messaging Configure naming service clients Configure NIS Configure a custom JumpStart software installation Perform a Flash installation Take the tests and find out how strong you are in Solaris.

December 12th, 2008 Ruby needs no special introduction in the world of object oriented programming. With the slow decline of Java over the years, Ruby has caught the eyes with its  dynamic and reflective programming paradigms.

June 26th, 2008 Twitter seems to be having serious scalability issues, a malaise which plagued the otherwise popular service since its early days. Could this be related to its architectural decision of adopting Ruby-on-Rails? There was a rumor not so long ago that twitter was abandoning Ruby on Rails.

August 10th, 2006 Rob Sanheim commented on Java & Ruby communities. Ruby has Dr.

May 23rd, 2006 They say a picture is worth thousand words. Let the picture speak for itself.

August 10th, 2006 A serious security concern in Ruby on Rails has forced the Rails team to come up with release 1.1.5, without waiting for the scheduled release of 1.2. David from Ruby on Rails team says: This is a MANDATORY upgrade for anyone not running on a very recent edge (which isn’t affected by this).

November 5th, 2005 Firefox 1.5 introduced two new features which drastically simplify extension development - the greatly simplified chrome registration scheme and reworked Extension Manager. Read this article to get started with extensions development.