In the May 2007 issue of Linux Journal, I described my initial foray into the world of Ruby programming, combining Ruby with CGI and AJAX to produce a Web-based Ethernet Analyzer. Although I had fun ...

Linux Journal: Doug, tell us a bit about yourself, what kind of development do you do? Doug Fales: My job at Mercury Interactive is writing Java code. I'm exposed to lots of different technologies, ...

The Ruby on Rails site bills its eponymous project as “Web development that doesn’t hurt.” I’m not really sure what that means, but it certainly sounds good. Further down on the page, it says, “Rails ...

HBase is an open-source, nonrelational, distributed database that is modeled after Google’s BigTable and written in Java. It was developed as part of Apache Software Foundation’s Apache Hadoop project ...