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Monthly Archives: September 2007

Alex Bunardzic is switching back to Assembler

September 27, 2007 – 10:46 am

Hmmm… maybe this whole Rails thing is just hype. I might start brushing up on assembler. In college, I was taught VAX assembler (not even x86!) so I am sure I’ll have no problems.
My favorite reason:
It’s small and fast
As mentioned above, small and slim, Assembler is THE fastest code on earth. Ruby [...]

By ed | Posted in rails | Comments (0)

Converting from ASP.NET to Rails: Part 2

September 25, 2007 – 4:55 pm

This is part 2 in a series of articles on converting both your mindset and your ASP.NET web sites to Rails. Inside I hope to help anyone coming from a .NET background that is looking to create new Rails apps, or migrating existing ones.
Before we go forward, I assume that you have [...]

By ed | Posted in .net, migration, rails, ruby | Comments (1)

How Rails, Apache2, mongrel and mod_proxy_balancer are like IIS and ASP.NET

September 18, 2007 – 9:17 pm

We recently migrated our corporate website from ASP.NET 2.0 to Rails. I am putting together a multipart series on migrating from ASP.NET to Rails, but in the meantime I thought I’d share some tidbits that I’ve come across that hopefully can help people who are otherwise scouring Google and the interwebs for information on [...]

By ed | Posted in debian, mongrel, rails, tidbit | Comments (0)

Converting and migrating a web application from ASP.NET / C# to Ruby on Rails: Part 1 of ?

September 14, 2007 – 3:33 pm

Folks,
I’ve had it with ASP.NET.
I had a simple missing tag on a Master page (I think VS2005 conveniently erased my form tag because I was trying to actually do something nifty), and it blew up our company web page.
I am going to convert http://www.ltech.com to Ruby on Rails from ASP.NET 2.0 / C#.
Ltech.com is a [...]

By ed | Posted in .net, migration, rails, ruby | Comments (0)