Here goes a funny video about the presidential campaign in the US. Thanks do David for pointing this out!

Empire strikes Obama

Gostaria de dar as boas-vindas ao André Lopes que se junta à equipa de consultores Java da RUPEAL!

O André é recém-licenciado em Engenharia Informática de Castelo Branco! Passou com distinção na nossa “no asshole rule” e brilhou nos nossos testes técnicos internos. É o mais recente membro a integrar a nossa equipa de outsourcing em Java e encontra-se num projecto na àrea de telecomunicações a trabalhar com Weblogic!

Brilliant.

Old, but brilliant post.

 They still think they can write software in house. Maybe they can, by the standards of the desktop world. But that world ended a few years ago.

Just came across with this article about RoR scaling issues. 

Some quotes:

When it comes to handling massive HTTP traffic, you can scale a Rails application horizontally just like any other by replicating your front-end web servers behind a load balancer. There’s nothing about Rails that makes this more difficult than with any other technology.

So if you don’t know how to scale with Java, C# or whatever you’re using… it’s useless to point your finger to RoR.

There’s a lot of different things that can slow down a web application. Rails makes it easy to get your application running without worrying about any of the performance issues, and that’s a good thing. If you ignore everything about performance tuning, you’ll still have a working application, and from there you can tune. There’s little point in tuning for performance before you have something that is successful for a small group of people. And if you focus on building an optimally scalable site and end up late to market as a result, you’ll have achieved nothing.

Bottom line: Build traffic first, worry about performance later. Comments?