Charles Oliver Nutter

JRuby Startup Time Tips


~2 years ago by Charles Oliver Nutter on Headius.
JRuby has become notorious among Ruby implementations for having a slow startup time. Some of this is the JVM's fault, since it doesn't save JIT products...

Five Reasons to Wait on the iPad


over 2 years ago by Charles Oliver Nutter on Headius.
Like most geeks, I watched with great anticipation as the iPad was unveiled yesterday. In my case, it was from liveblogs monitored on spotty 3G and WiFi...

Busy Week: JRuby with Android, Maven, Rake, C exts, and More!


over 2 years ago by Charles Oliver Nutter on Headius.
(How long has it been since I last blogged? Answer: a long time. I'll try to blog more frequently now that the (TOTALLY INSANE) fall conference season is...

Missed RubyConf? Attend Qcon's Ruby Track!


over 2 years ago by Charles Oliver Nutter on Headius.
This year, RubyConf reportedly reduced their attendee cap to 250 people (Update: actually 450 people), after hosting a 500 to 600-person conference last...

Announcing JRubyConf 2009


over 2 years ago by Charles Oliver Nutter on Headius.
Good news everybody! We're finally going to have JRubyConf!After over 3 years of heavy development, dozens of deployments and hundreds of users, it's time...