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Tim Bray on Rails, REST, XML, Java, and More

Community
Ruby,
Java,
SOA
Topics
WS Standards,
Web Services,
Ruby on Rails,
Dynamic Languages

InfoQ Ruby editor Obie Fernandez interviews Tim Bray, one of the inventors of XML and current Director of Web Technologies for Sun Microsystems. We cover varied topics such as his opinions about Ruby and Rails, the impact of dynamic languages on web development, static versus dynamic typing, Sun's support of the JRuby project, Atom, and WS-* versus REST approaches to systems integration.

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How To Survive in a Turbulent Job Market

Community
Java
Topics
Careers

Steven Haines usually spends his time writing about new Java technologies that can help developers in their jobs, however, this week he has turned his attention to those technologies that can help you find that next job.

Spring Overtakes EJB as a Skills Requirement?

Community
Java
Topics
Open Source,
JCP Standards

Job listings comparisons on Indeed.com show Spring surpassing EJB. Using this observation, SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson, argues that EJB is becoming legacy and that the EJB3.0 spec is doing too little, too late to prevent this trend. Do these comparisons indeed reflect significant shifts in the choices companies are making in regards to their core components for Java enterprise development?

SOA Is Alive And Well?

Community
SOA
Topics
Technology

ZapThink analyst Ron Schmelzer gives their take on the current life of SOA and why so many people may have been tolling the bell for it far too early.

Getting started with Rubinius development

Community
Ruby
Topics
Technology,
Dynamic Languages,
Programming

Rubinius is quickly gathering interest and is coming close to full Ruby support. We take a look at Rubinius development, what to check out and where to start.

Avid Agile Adoption Engenders an "Equal and Opposite" Reaction

Community
Agile
Topics
Methodologies

An old post on "The Physics of Passion" resonates today, as the methodology argument continues: is Agile an approach worth embracing? Or just the latest flavour of corporate Kool-Aid? Kathy Sierra wrote that being accused of "drinking the Kool-Aid" can be a good thing: a sign that we're developing passionate proponents - and opponents.

Darwin and Service Reuse: Competition is Good

Community
SOA
Topics
Delivering Value,
Governance

Service reuse is something that many SOA proponents say is a benefit. However, proponents of object-orientation techniques said the same thing and that didn't materialize. Is introducing competition in the service arena a way of getting improvements in reuse?

2006 Top Enterprise Software News and Content

Community
Agile,
Java,
.NET,
Ruby,
SOA
Topics
InfoQ Announcements

It is our pleasure to present to you the most popular content on InfoQ in 2006. InfoQ.com launched June 8th, 2006, and has since put out over seventy six high quality articles on Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, and Agile, as well as a number of free downloadable books and video interviews / video conference presentations by world renowned experts.

Rails Helps Service Survive Hawaii Earthquake

Community
Ruby
Topics
Ruby on Rails,
Deployment / Datacenter

Spoxel.com, a document storage company successfully maintained all company services during Hawaii's recent earthquake. Among other factors, the company's leader credited their use of Ruby on Rails as part of their ability to stay up during the catastrophe.