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Presentation: JRuby: Not Just Another JVM Language

Posted by Ryan Slobojan on Apr 22, 2008 10:15 AM

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In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, JRuby project lead Charles Nutter discusses the Ruby and JRuby featureset, the JRuby compiler, calling Java from JRuby and vice versa, programming Swing with JRuby, JRuby web applications, JRuby on Rails, persistence, build automation, Test-Driven Development and Behaviour-Driven Development.

Watch JRuby: Not Just Another JVM Language (54 minutes).

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No voice by Ali Motaz Posted Apr 21, 2008 4:38 AM
Re: No voice by Ali Motaz Posted Apr 21, 2008 4:58 AM
From today I'm not able to watch any presentations:((( (Firefox 2.0.0.14) by Sergey Rassokhin Posted Apr 22, 2008 12:04 PM
Re: From today I'm not able to watch any presentations:((( (Firefox 2.0.0.1 by Rafael Chaves Posted Apr 27, 2008 2:39 AM
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    No voice

    Apr 21, 2008 4:38 AM by Ali Motaz

    for the first two or so minutes there were no voice when does the voice picks up!

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    Re: No voice

    Apr 21, 2008 4:58 AM by Ali Motaz

    the headphones were not plugged properly!! silly

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    Where can I get the e-mail address to post a bug?

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    bugs (at) infoq.com

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