almost forgot: http://netbeans.org/community/sources/

'However, we strongly encourage our community of NetBeans Ruby users and developers to volunteer to take on development of Ruby on Rails support for the NetBeans IDE. " Remember Netbeans is just Forte - the whole thing is just a collection of modules. Fork the ruby module.

See this is the problem: redundancy isn't the job of the DB: it's the job of the infrastructure. Tell you what, I'll deploy my 5000 postgres nodes and have everything vmotion and swing luns like a stripper working for her tuition and we'll see exactly why NoSQL DBs are exactly that. Replication? The SANs are mirrored over MPLS. Checkmate.

And if you think RDBMS are "suboptimal for straightfoward user profile storage.." there's a problem with your data model, not the system. A poor workman blames his tools.

My intention is not to come-off as vicious, though it may seem that way. I'm just really tired of people doing shit and thinking it's innovation, only becuase they are too ignorant to understand the problems they created their solutions for; either that or they forgot that something older then 15 years is available to do the same thing, only better.

So is Postgres. Like the OP, I'm still waiting for a good reason to use NoSQL-type storage. I have to agree that these are all solutions looking for problems: trying to re-invent the wheel for no other reason then they don't know how to correctly do it with the existing products.

Database? Psha - we only use Excel for our most critical data storage needs....

How do you figure? Wireless power transmission has been proven to work - Intel recently experiments demonstrating such. Some scientists are only now starting to experiment with power transmission over long distances using the ionosphere.

2 words: Schumann Resonance. I wonder if there is a relationship to life taking hold on this planet and the OP's intreguing discovery...

A lot of people laughed at Tesla too. Only took 100 years to prove the man right, for the most part.

..and find it amusing that people are making cracks about how the govt dropped the ball, instead of the obvious fact that the govt. chose MS after considering options and google is just jilted. Because that would be evil.

You mean like they did with the Xbox?

I think the correlation explains itself.

Because it's not bad at all. A shoddy workman blames his tools.

according to our best-guess, FB has ~2B in gross revenue. If each employe made 100k, that's 200mil/yr in salary costs. Add in their IT costs that are easily 2x that, and you have 600mil/yr in operating costs, which means their making 1.4 billion in profit per year: hardly a company worth 25x earnings.

exactly - the only difference between FaceBook and MySpace(for all intents and purposes) is the timing.