Lightning struck twice in Boston last week. First, a major transformer blew in downtown Boston taking out the power and then in a series of rapid fire lightning talks at the OpenShift Community Day event hosted in...

Parsing text is such a common task that most developers encounters it every day, probably even every hour or even a minute. In this part of my series about awesome Ruby libraries we will not be diving into any theories...

It is a well known fact that HTTP(Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is a stateless request-response protocol. This simple design of the HTTP protocol makes it very scalable but inefficient and unsuitable for highly...

Time to tell a little tale, a fable, an illustrative example, a scenario you might find yourself facing. You and your friends work for a large enterprise company, or you just graduated from college, or you are bored...

When you take a close look at the ten most popular websites in the U.S., you’ll notice some patterns- some ways of dealing with color and white space that can inform your design sensibility. These companies wield an...

OpenShift Enterprise 1.2 is now available for subscription customers. OpenShift Enterprise is a cloud computing Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution from Red Hat, and is designed for on-premise or private cloud...

OpenShift PaaS gives developers the ability to try out new unsupported frameworks, programming languages, and servers. Today, while learning about WebSockets I learned that the current development version of Apache...

When charging ahead with all of your new strategies for responsive web design don’t forget the one of most important parts – the typographic headlines. Stay ahead of most web designers by paying close attention to...

We all use location aware applications in our day-to-day life. Applications like Foursquare, Facebook places, etc help us share our location (or places we visit) with our friends and family. Applications such as Google...

Even though most of my daily news come already through Twitter, for some publishers I still prefer to use RSS readers. Until now I have been a long-time user of Reader by Google. And yes, I was disappointed by their...

In my previous blog post, I talked about how we can use HTML 5 GeoLocation capabilities to build location aware applications with JAXRS and MongoDB at the backend. Today, we will extend the LocalJobs application we...

In this blog post we'll take a look at the basic components that make scaling possible on OpenShift and what it does for us. What is HAProxy? Let's start with a citation from HAProxy's homepage HAProxy is a free, very...

Win a Free Ticket to ticonf US 2013 Want a free ticket to the ticonf US 2013 conference taking place in Baltimore on June 28 & 29? Then take your chances in the ticonf US 2013 Ticket Sweepstakes, offered by the...

The application I'm going to write about here actually had its start a few years back. I have a number of friends in the whitewater paddling community around Boston and at the time, I had started playing around with...

It is a well known fact that HTTP(Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is a stateless request-response protocol. This simple design of the HTTP protocol makes it very scalable but inefficient and unsuitable for highly...