Thats right, since the release of Ruby on Rails the RubyForge projects homepage has seen steady growth of 4 per day and now has over 1000 hosted projects.
Archive for November, 2005
RubyForge hits 1000 projects
November 28th, 2005MySQL AB considering move from InnoDB
November 23rd, 2005Over a month ago Oracle bought out the Innobase Oy company and as many of you may know MySQL AB uses the Innobase code to power its recent MySQL product.
MySQL is pluggable and so could technically shift to another open source database platform with relative ease but Inno’s offering was chosen specifically for its suitability for online data processing so any change would be seen as a knock.
“Obviously because Oracle made that acquisition we are evaluating options to replace that functionality in some way,” – Richard Mason, vice president of MySQL for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
Although Oracle haven’t made a specific declaration either way and the Innobase code is under the GPL it could make things a little sticky if Oracle has patents on underlying code as the contract for providing the code is up for renewal in a years time.
Django @ PyCon
November 23rd, 2005Django have confirmed yesterday that they’ll be there in force with 2 presentations at the Feburary 2006 PyCon. The two talks that will be given are:
- An introduction and tutorial on using Django.
- A presentation on using Django for web development with some core philosophies and code samples. This will be given by the lead developer.
Unfortunately I can’t make the PyCon as I’m dwelling in the UK but I wish the Django team all the best with it and hope to hear good reviews of it from the PyCon.
Firefox 1.5RC3 Released
November 22nd, 2005
A few days old but Mozilla released their third and final release candidate on the 17th. Shortly after a review of the known bugs was instigated. There have been numerous complaints from the community of a stagnant and increasing number of bugs left to rot in the bowls of Bugzilla.
Many of these can often be duplicates or non-issues but its clear the reviewing process is a little lacking. This doesn’t detract from the greatness of the browser however it does show the management of the project could do with a bit of a kick up the arse.
Haskell Nightmares
November 3rd, 2005Has anyone else had experience with this language? Haskell is a functional language and as such a total mystery to me. I did try and I’m far from an idiot but I’m afraid Haskell never gripped me and in fact actively repulsed me in its strange ways. In my university years the tutor was a **** and wasn’t a great inspiration for the language – in fact it was probably him that put me off for life. His name being Nick Dyson for anyone at my old university who may know him.
So anyway back to Haskell and its total lack of use. Thats right, I can’t see it being of any use and if you look at its huge list of applications you’ll agree. Its quite pitiful to see.
If there’s any Haskell fanatics/lunatics out there then drop me a line if you think I’m being unfair. Maybe you can inspire me a little better than Old Nick.
