Solltest du noch nichts über Sendgrid wissen, dann wird es Zeit. Vorbei sind die Zeiten, wo man selbst noch einen Email Server aufsetzt und administriert. Emails versenden ist ein wichtiger Teil in jeder Web Applikation. Der Email Server ist schnell aufgesetzt und Emails werden versendet. Jedoch kommen diese oftmals nicht an, sondern verschwinden im Spam [...]
Engine Yard (EY) is a enterpricy (serious support and hosting, but pricy) Rails hosting service. Two months ago at the JavaOne, Engine Yard announced that they will support JRuby. Since then a lot changed, Oracle bought Sun which raised a lot of questions about Sun’s products and frankly I don’t think it looks good for [...]
I have been using 6.7 for about 3 months now and I also participated in the NetBeans CAT program. Because a couple of days ago NetBeans 6.7 final has been released, I decided to write a longer review/round up about it. I start with an overview of the new features and then with my personal [...]
JRuby is a Java implementation of the Ruby language. JRuby allows to build applications in Ruby (especially Rails) and include them in a Java environment (e.g. JEE). Despite the difficult it is already one of the fastest Ruby implementations available and invokedynamic it will further improve the performance. With this release, the Java 1.4 support has been dropped. [...]
App Stores are the new trend, Apple kinda started it and others are following, e.g. Google Android. Guess who is next? Java! Like every real star Java is a little bit late to the party, but the potential is huge. Let me explain why …