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FriendFeed's Pseudo-ODB

Fri, 02/27/2009 - 23:29 — R.J. Lorimer

Object database technology has never really taken off in the industry, but it has a lot of valid purposes, and in many scenarios can be very quick and powerful for developers to work with.

Relational databases carry a certain aura of reliability and reusability that make them appealing for businesses. Buying a pre-packaged product (whether it is a database, a reporting engine, an application server, or whatever) has a certain appeal to most businesses; the warm-blanket effect.

Ruboto

Thu, 02/26/2009 - 16:33 — R.J. Lorimer

Charlie Nutter (head of JRuby development) has posted information on a new variant of JRuby - Ruboto. Ruboto is JRuby running on the Android/Dalvik VM. As a G1 owner, and a JRuby fan this is pretty exciting news!