Woopsie, due to this weeks JAOO conference in Århus Denmark, I completely missed that The Gimp is now available in RC3 - also for Windows.
Download here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=121075
I have a lot to blog about on JAOO, I just don't know where to begin ;) I'll be getting to it.
technorati tags:the gimp 2.4 rc3, windows, released
After reading this blog post, I installed the new Conversations app on my N95.
It the kind of messaging app I've always wanted for my phone. Actually a little bit like Life Blog, but just for the messages on your phone.
It shows the newest messages on you phone in a conversational format, a little like you might know it from Evolution or Gmail. Very nice actually, although it shows the all messages stored from a user in a conversation, instead just the ones that have been send and received in the same logical conversation. But it works anyway.
After installing Conversations it is "always on" through it's direct integration into the contacts application. Just as you might have seen in IP Phone apps such as Gizmo.
What I would have liked to see to make Conversations complete, was integration into the Call Log application. But who knows what sneaks into the app before it's beta tag is removed.You can get the app here:
http://www.nokia.com/A4568203
Remember to install the services on the phone memory!
technorati tags:conversations, nokia n95, messaging, contacts integration, application, utility, oppinion, first impressions, beta labs
Hey - I just realized that the two gurus of JRuby - Charles Nutter and Thomas E. Enebo - is visiting Denmark at next weeks JAOO conference.
I saw your presentation at JavaOne 4 months ago, and can't wait to see what you have to say now (I mean - things move fast nowadays).
See you next week guys!
technorati tags:jruby, charles nutter, thomas enebo, visting denmark, jaoo conference, java, sun microsystems
Ohoy folks - it's time for Netbeans 6.0 beta 1!
After a quick run my first impression is that it seems remarkably faster than the M10 build. The Ruby editor is somewhat snappier and less reluctant. It is actually really nice to work with. More or less on par with the speed of a native windows application - and possibly getting even better before the RC and final version.
The welcome and splash screens have been updated:
As well as the it's icon:
But those are some of the least interesting of the changes. See the full change list here:
http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/NewAndNoteWorthy#section-NewAndNoteWorthy-Beta1
Get it here (including link to the ruby-only IDE):
http://bits.netbeans.org/download/6_0/beta1/latest/
More info here:
http://cld.blog-city.com/netbeans_6_beta_arrives__cool_new_look_and_brimming_with_fe.htm
Jooooy!
BTW: A comparison of MS Visual Studio.NET 2008 and Netbeans 6.0 can be found here:
http://sunnytalkstech.blogspot.com/2007/09/visual-studio-2008-vs-netbeans-60.html
The updated documentation including the newest tutorials can be found here:
http://www.netbeans.org/kb/60/
Direct link to tutorials (also included on the welcome page):
http://www.netbeans.org/kb/60/ruby/index.html
technorati tags:netbeans 6.0 beta 1, oppinion, first impressions, release, ruby rails ide, rails REST example
A couple of days ago Charles Nutter announced the preview version of the Glassfish server gem for JRuby/Rails deployments.
What's the biggie about this you ask? Well, you get high performance JRuby on Rails support out of the box, with way better features han running Mongrel. In other words - you get the benefit of the features of a state of the art Java Application Server, as well as the ease of use of the Mongrel...! Ok, Glassfish+JRuby is not as fast as Mongrel+Ruby, but will (hopefully) be with JRuby 1.1.
You download the gem here:
http://download.java.net/maven/glassfish/com/sun/enterprise/glassfish/glassfish-gem/10.0-SNAPSHOT/
Then you install the gem with this command:
gem install glassfish-gem-10.0-SNAPSHOT.gem
You run the server using this command:
glassfish_rails testapp
Charles reports that Glassfish has blazing performance on static files. This will be a really attractive option (if not first choice) when JRuby 1.1 hits the road.
technorati tags:jruby, glassfish, performance, rails, charles nutter, gem
According to Charles Nutter himself his recent work on finishing the JRuby Compiler already made JRuby run faster than MRI (Matz Reference Implementation = the "original" c based Ruby implementation). Which is very nice - congrats!
You can read about the details on this blog post, as well as info on what is still missing from the compiler:
http://headius.blogspot.com/2007/09/jruby-compiler-update-and-nice.html
It's gonna be a long waiting time until the release of JRuby 1.1 ;-)
technorati tags:jruby, compiler, benchmark, MRI, ruby reference implementation
The Gimp has now been released in it's version 2.4 RC2.
About 7 hours ago, the installer for Windows became available on this link:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=121075&package_id=240554&release_id=537331
Enjoy.
