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A misconception lingers in the Ruby world: Ruby has no debugger. This is blatantly wrong - Ruby has debuggers, GUIs for debuggers and APIs for debuggers. InfoQ takes a close look at the state of debugging tools in the Ruby world - and finds that its debugging support is more than sufficient.
SlickEdit has created an Add-On for Visual Studio that integrates with the popular site, The Code Project.
Heroku and Morph Labs are Ruby on Rails hosting providers, offering a complete stack of software and easy to use interfaces to get your applications up and running in a few minutes. We talked to both parties to find out more about their offers.
Like its predecessors, Visual Studio 2008 continues to have performance issues. Unlike VS 2003 and 2005, Microsoft is actively working on performance patches, if only you know where to look.
Late last week the MonoDevelop team at Novell announced the RTM of MonoDevelop 1.0.
With the recent release of the .NET Framework version 3.5, a new release of SharpDevelop 3.0 is pending.
SapphireSteel's Ruby in Steel IDE for Visual Studio just added another feature: JRuby support. This includes a new fast debugger for JRuby. We talked to Huw Collingbourne about this new feature.
Microsoft has released a demo of potential Visual Studio 10 features as an extension for VS 2008. The features, collectively called PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008, include the source code.
Major changes are planned for IntelliSense in Visual C++ 10. These include a faster, more reliant parser and replacing the opaque NCB file with a SQL Server Compact database that can be browsed directly.
