So where is Pogo?

I just remembered a while back AT&T was looking to get into the browser market with Pogo.  Some of the features look interesting... but where is it?

Taking a look through Google Chrome's eyes

Google just released their new browser on the windows world... figured I'd give it a shot.

Google Chrome

Have already found and reported a few minor issues... some javascript horking.  In all, I dig the UI.  Could maybe use a "manage bookmarks" feature.  Maybe it's in here somewhere. 

(NOTE: posting this from chrome right now... found another JS issue.)

Interesting... that is all

Just read this post...

Just saying... it's interesting.  Seems to be a lot of the benchmarking bug going around these days.

JRuby slowdown from Rails 2.0.2 to 2.1.0

Before you decide to bring your current JRuby on Rails app to the latest 2.1.0 version... you may want to take a look at the performance. I was running the console benchmark from this blog post with jruby trunk and saw some numbers I wasn't expecting:
[sourcecode language="ruby"]
in console: 6.times {puts Benchmark.measure {10000.times {Person.find :first}}.total}
4.47 : jruby 1.1.2 & rails 2.0.2 (jdbc) (best out of 6 runs)
5.43 : jruby 1.1.2 & rails 2.1.0 (jdbc)
4.12 : jruby 1.1.3 (trunk) & rails 2.0.2 (jdbc)
5.06 : jruby 1.1.3 (trunk) & rails 2.1.0 (jdbc)
[/sourcecode]

JRuby trunk IS faster than 1.1.2 as expected, but JRuby overall is experiencing a (pretty significant) slowdown when running Rails 2.1.0.

Hopefully finding the culprit for this slowdown will open the floodgates for improving JRuby on Rails performance.

Loss of internet connection...

When you have to write something like this (on mac), things are bad mmmmkay?

[sourcecode language="ruby"]
loop do
if system('curl -m 2 http://google.com')
system("say \"Mike! Cox Communications has finally fixed the lines, we're back in business!\"")
end
sleep(30)
end
[/sourcecode]