• Awaitility – Java DSL for easy testing of asynchronous systems | Jayway Team Blog - Sharing Experience I adminster and design a lot of asyncronous BPM processes, so I’m eager to really wrap my head around this.
• Tom Morris - JRuby: a thank you letter I wrote a blog post a couple of years ago where I stated that JRuby wasn’t very stable. Well, I was wrong then, and Jruby has only gotten better. Now I would have trouble living without it, and this post echoes my sentiments.
• cldwalker/ripl - GitHub I love Ruby, but I have never been a big fan of irb, especially after I was spoiled with Python’s excellent IPython shell. ripl seems to be a step in the right direction of creating a truly excellent Ruby shell.
• The MongoDB story | DBMS 2 : DataBase Management System Services) tags: mongodb sql performance nosql This is a great overview of the MongoDB database. It’s night the best choice for every scenario, but if used properly, it can be a very powerful, fault-tolerant and *fast* database manager.
• kristian’s blog: GWT with RubyOnRails backend glued together with Maven/JRuby It’s great to see that someone is working on this. I can’t wait for the day when creating a rich GWT application is as easy as creating a Rails app.
• Call Me Fishmeal.: Success, and Farming vs. Mining tags: quality software purpose Excellent article on what it means to create something truly meaningful for a living.

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.