Archive for January, 2007

Java/Hibernate vs Ruby/Rails?

Monday, January 29th, 2007

Java seems to reign in most enterprise IT departments. Outside thereof, a lot of interest is going into Ruby and the Rails framework. I found Patrick Peak’s review useful in understanding the relative advantages of each.

More 9/11 links

Monday, January 29th, 2007

Following up my earlier post, some additional links:

Code and release management

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

I was an early adopter of Subversion and Edgewall’s Trac. Installation of Trac on my defacto Linux distro, CentOS, has not been very straightforward due to it being a RHEL clone. This guide has documented the process in a clear and easy-to-follow guide. Well done!

Update: I’m looking at distributed SCMs, Mercurial looks interesting:

Subversion 2.0 will likely borrow distributed design elements from Mercurial.