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Once every year I like to spend some time revisiting a personal itch of mine: is Java ready for web prime-time? Sadly, although Java has clearly proven its place in the server-side, it has failed in the frontend, last bit …

Surely performance is not the prime criteria for selecting a framework. Most people will say developer productivity, ease of maintenance, security and scalability are the most important factors.

I love the Ruby language and its expresiveness. And Rails has been …

While developing our trading application, I have come across two key things Rails does not have:

• Transactions. Rails does not offer distributed transaction management. This does not bother me much, since I am not a fan of having transactions span

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I have tried for the last couple of days to overcome some of the transaction management problems I was having with Rails, and the more I look at it, the more I am convinced Rails is not right for my …

Transactions in Rails are starting to bother me, and quite a lot. Once in a while I dive into my latest application,booki.es, a web application for trading long-term futures using play money.

Rails was fantastic for building my wife’s eCommerce …

I have spent some time over Christmas period playing here and there with Ruby on Rails and getting an overdose of AJAX. I really wanted to see whether all the hype and marketing from 37things.com and associates makes any sense.…