The weekly paper in Lexington Kentucky ran an interesting story by Bill Bishop. Bill is co-author of a book named The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded American is Tearing us Apart. The article tells the story about the beginnings of IBM in Austin, and how the split up the typewriter division in Lexington (which became LexMark) and the Austin facility. We all know the fate of dot matrix printers and LexMark. And most [...]

FiveRuns, the application monitoring and systems management company for Ruby on Rails, today released the public beta for FiveRuns TuneUp, a free, socially networked application profiling tool for Ruby on Rails developers that provides rapid application performance analysis in development. The company also announced general availability of FiveRuns Manage 2.0, the subscription-based application performance management tool for production Ruby on Rails applications. FiveRuns now offers three products for Ruby on Rails developers and operations teams: [...]