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May 2007
May 29, 2007
Caching Ruby on Rails
Our RailsConf report JRuby: Making the Enterprise See Red details how the upcoming launch of JRuby 1.0 will introduce even more database options for Rails developers. For now, scaling and performance are still a big worry. For more info on this, check out Nick Siegler's recent blog on the geekSessions Ruby panel, Ruby on Rails: To Scale or Not to Scale. Also IBM's Bruce Tate recently posted an article looking at some scenarios for Caching in Rails .
Posted by John Dorsey at 09:00 PM Permalink
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May 22, 2007
Tackling Data Quality Problems
Data repositories have this nasty tendency to act like anchors, weighing down an otherwise productive enterprise. That is, if they are allowed to decay. Which they are. Most IT organizations know they have a problem, but don't really know what to do about it. The first step might be to challenge the assumptions that keep you from taking action.
Posted by Kevin Carlson at 02:36 PM Permalink
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May 08, 2007
Framing the Agile Argument
If your development team is not using agile developement yet and you're proposing adoption to your company's management team, Scott Ambler has some helpful advice. In his article, Pitching Agile to Senior Management, Scott includes some diagrams showing the ROI for agile and a "Financial Lingo Primer" to help you pitch your ideas.
Posted by John Dorsey at 07:15 PM Permalink
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May 01, 2007
Googling Government
In general, the public sector has a pretty wretched reputation for making it difficult to find digital information in their online systems. Sometimes this is deliberate, for perceived security reasons, but more often it's just the inevitable result of a big organization not being able to coordinate all its subsystems. Google has announced this week, however, that it is beginning to partner with state governments, beginning with Arizona, California, Utah and Virginia, to make government records more easily available via the Google search engine.
Google is providing the states with a custom search engine that knows how to navigate the various repositories of digital information squirreled away in a maze of state databases. From one engine, you can find things as varied as job listings and student test scores.
No doubt this is going to make life easier for those doing research online, and will probably be a boon to consumers as well. So now we wait to see if privacy problems crop up. As I live in California, you can bet I'm going to see if my SSN pops up in any of the searchable records.
Posted by Kevin Carlson at 10:06 PM Permalink
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