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HAML: The Beauty of Efficiency
The creator of HAML, an alternative templating language for Rails, feels that 20 minutes is all you’ll need to fall in love with its simplicity. However, a blogger named Grigsby disagrees, claiming that 2 minutes is all it takes. InfoQ investigates.
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Google SoC Series: Creating RSpec specs for Ruby runtimes
The number of Ruby implementations grows steadily, but something is missing: a Ruby specification. The behavior of the Ruby language and its standard libraries is defined in the code of the main Ruby implementation. Two Google SoC projects aim to fix this by creating executable RSpec specifications for Ruby. We caught up with Pedro Del Gallego who works on one of these projects.
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C# and VB Continue to Diverge
When VB.NET and C# were first released, they were often thought of as the same language with a different syntax and minor differences. As time goes on, these differences are becoming more pronounced. For example, their treatment of anonymous types is worlds apart.
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CodeGear unveils Ruby on Rails IDE
CodeGear announced a new IDE for Ruby on Rails development based on Eclipse. Due out in in the 2nd half of 2007, this will enter a growing market of RoR development tools.
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Motorola Challenges Java Developers to Rethink Mobile Computing
Thursday at JavaOne started with a thought provoking keynote by Motorola CTO Padmasree Warrior. Rather than the usual vendor keynote making grand announcements or touting specific accomplishments of her company, Warrior focused on challenging Java developers to think hard about the transformation of the mobile world.
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Interface21 (Spring) gets 10M VC Funding
Interface21, the provider of the Spring Framework has announced that it has received $10 million in Series A financing from Benchmark Capital. The new funds will be used to accelerate product development and expand marketing, sales and support infrastructure to scale their professional open source offerings around Spring.
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Using SAP4Rails to Quickly Develop for SAP
Dan Mcweeny presented a case study at JavaOne on using Ruby On Rails and SAP4Rails (an open source SAP integration library). His group was able to create a specialized web 2.0 front end in 2 weeks without prior knowledge of Ruby or Rails.
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Find Memory Leaks in Your Rails Application with BleakHouse
Performance is a major issue for some Rails application. BleakHouse is a plugin that helps you find memory leaks, without using Ruby's ObjectSpace introspection.
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Sun CTO Bob Brewin on JavaFX Mobile and JavaFX Script
InfoQ sat down with Bob Brewin, Sun's Chief Technology Officer, who filled in some of the blanks about JavaFX, what it means to Sun, to Java developers, and to consumers, who are the real focus of JavaFX.
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Cool things you can do with Groovy
With dynamic languages playing a role in JDK 6, the "Cool things you can do with Groovy" session was aimed at show casing the features of the Groovy language that can help make developers more productive.
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Java Goes Real Time
Yesterday at Java One Sun finally announced the first implementation of JSR-1, the Real-time Specification for Java, since it was finalized in July of 2006.
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Sun Finishes OpenJDK Transition
In today's Java One keynote Sun announced that the open sourcing of Java has been completed. There is now a completely build-able JDK available to developers at the OpenJDK project.
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SDL.NET Offers Cross-Platform Gaming for .NET Developers
Version 6 of SDL.NET, a high-level binding for the SDL API, has been released. This, combined with the Tao framework, form the corner-stone of MonoXna.
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InfoQ Article: The MOle Plugin
The MOle, so named because it acts as the investigators agent, is a plugin that provides insight into the inner workings of Ruby on Rails in realtime, as requests come in and get processed. The author describes how the plugin came about and gives InfoQ readers a detailed introduction to his innovative plugin.
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Sun to Introduce JavaFX Mobile and JavaFX Script
According to industry publications, Sun is slated to announce JavaFX Script at Tuesday morning's opening JavaOne keynote. JavaFX Script will target desktop, web, and mobile devices.