Wednesday, April 6, 2011

jQuery Translator Plug-in.

The jQuery Translator has been available for free download for several years. At first, it employed Google's translation technology, but when they began charging for it, we implemented a version based on Microsoft's free Bing translation service. Microsoft has also decided to charge for their latest Azure one. Their free service is now unreliable and unusable.

We are considering building a new jQuery-based translator that uses either Microsoft or Google paid translation services. For more details about pricing and the jQuery Translator features, please go to http://jquery.bunkerhill.com. You can also fill  out a short survey found there that will help us ascertain the practicality of building another translator.

We would like to hear your thoughts on this subject.

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Convince me to use Python: Does Django really scale better than Rails?

Convince me to use Python: Does Django really scale better than Rails?

The simple fact is that dynamically typed languages like Ruby and Python require 10X the processing power of statically typed languages like Java/C++. So doesn't it follow that a Ruby / Python application requiring 10 CPUs wold only require a single CPU for an equivalent Java / C++ application?