Weekend trip and Jruby demo

This past weekend a large group of us in Bangalore took a trip to Mysore. It’s a city which is about 3 hours outside of Bangalore and was a great experience. We saw several palaces, a few temples and got to see more of the Indian country side outside of the city. The contrast between the overstretched infrastructure of Bangalore to the beautiful green and open country is quite shocking. All in all the trip was great and the sites were beautiful (photos on flickr).

I also had the opportunity to hear Ola Bini give a great intro to Jruby. I’ve toyed around with it a bit in the past few months but Ola’s talk was really enlightening. He was able to get right down to the “why should I care” about the project, and it made quite an impression on all who were in attendance. He was frank about the things he feels that Matz’ Ruby Implementation (MRI) isn’t doing so well (threads, concurrency, c extensions, etc) and made awesome points about how Jruby addresses many of these concerns. Wish I could attend RailsConf Europe to hear more about the things he’s doing with Jruby and Mingle.

I’m heading back home to the states this Friday and I’ve yet to hear where I’ll be staffed, so hopefully something should come up soon.