Keeping the cloud open

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

I really like Matt Asay's article on why we need to focus on keeping the cloud open and less about keeping the operating system open. If you think of the cloud as an 'array' of applications and less of a hosting solution it starts to open up the aperture on ...

Native thread support in Ruby’s latest version

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

Image via Wikipedia It looks like Ruby version 1.9.1 supports native threads and fibers. Fibers are a 'lightweight' approach when you don't need full threads. It sounds like fibers are not preemptive, so they have to yield to other fibers as opposed to threads that can run in ...