Congratulations to David and everyone else on the rails team for doing a fantastic job. The Rails site has had the 37Signals upgrade and looks fantastic.

I have already upgraded on WideWord and at home. No problems that I can see. The focus towards 1.0 on maturing Rails has really paid off.

I’m doing some Java work at the moment for a client on my powerbook (1.5GHz). It’s the first time I’ve really done so in a while and I have to say that it is really slow. Has anyone got any tips for speeding it up? Like using a 1.5 JVM or something like that?

I have written this article Trust points and Breach points in Web Apps, which explains much of my approach to writing secure web applications. Please comment in the actual article.