DRb and Rinda for Distributed Computation Prototyping

Posted by Eric Stewart Tue, 29 Aug 2006 03:51:00 GMT

Earlier this year I ventured back from a very enjoyable year building and deploying a project in Ruby on Rails into the familiar territory of Java. Ruby has become cemented as a valuable tool that will certainly remain near the top of my tool box, ready for use.

Right now, however, I’m working on problems that are outside the realm of where Ruby shines (though I’m certain it’ll catch up soon enough). In particular, I recently had the need to research some ideas on creating a solution for a problem that lends itself to distributed computation.

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Trojans and Virii in the Name of Accessibility

Posted by Eric Stewart Sun, 04 Dec 2005 02:56:00 GMT

Darrell has reported a new trojan/virus making the rounds that is disguised as software to help those with special needs.

That is just disgusting and appalling. What else can I say.

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