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InfoQ Interview: Tim Bray on Rails, REST, Java Dynamic Languages, and More
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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InfoQ Article: Painless AOP with Groovy
In this latest article, John McClean shows how to use Groovy's MOP to perform AOP interception without proxyies or bytecode manipulation, and shows how the same is possible in Ruby and other dynamic languages.
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Ruby Metaprogramming Techniques
Ola Bini looks at several common metaprogramming techniques in Ruby.
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LANG.NET 2006 Presentations Available
The videos (slides+audio) from the Microsoft-hosted LANG.Net Symposium are now available. Talks include "Dynamically Typed Languages on the Java Platform", " Ruby on the CLR", "Spec#", and "VB 9". The conference focused on programming languages that target managed execution platforms such as the .NET CLR.
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JRuby: What happens next? Will it affect Groovy/Grails?
Since Sun's announcement of their hiring of JRuby committers Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo, both as well as Tim Bray of Sun have both provided follow up answers to questions about what will happen next. The blogsphere has also began discussing the announcement in respect to other projects such as Groovy/Grails.
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Presentation: JRuby - Bringing Ruby to the JVM
In this InfoQ-exclusive presentation, JRuby leads Thomas Enebo and Charles Nutter show off the current state of the JRuby project, which has come a long way under their stewardship. The presentation shows compelling demonstrations of how the Ruby language and key Ruby applications can function well on the Java Virtual Machine.
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24.37% of Web Developers to Try Ruby in Next 12 Months
A recent SitePoint survey of 5000 Web developers show 24.37% are set to try Ruby in the next year.
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An Interview with Hal Fulton, Author of "The Ruby Way"
Pat Eyler interviews Hal Fulton, Ruby veteran and author of "The Ruby Way".
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InfoQ Article: Why Would a .NET Programmer Learn Ruby on Rails?
.NET developer Stephen Chu gives us some insight into his transition to Ruby on Rails programming. Quote: "By being loyal to one technology stack, I am bound to unconsciously make biased decisions, which will ultimately hinder my ability to deliver business value."
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The Resurgence of Java the Platform
Way back in December of 2000 noted columnist Jon Udell covered the language-agnosticism of the Microsoft CLR versus the JVM. Six years after Udell highlighted the topic, Java the Platform is beginning to come out of the shadows of its more well known counterpart Java the Language.
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Ruby Compilation on .Net Maturing
John Gough, a professor at Queensland University of Technology, talked about his team's work with Ruby .Net compilation at the recent Microsoft Lang.NET 2006 Symposium.
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O'Reilly: Ruby Book Sales Surpass Perl
Tim O'Reilly reports that Ruby book sales have surpassed those of Perl for the first time this quarter.
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Can Ruby Live Without Rails? An Interview with Bruce Tate
Yakov Fain, a senior technical architect and author of numerous Java books, interviews Bruce Tate, a famous Java-turned-Ruby developer, and investigates the status of the Ruby language.
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Bruce Tate's "From Java to Ruby" Reviewed
Frequent technical author Bruce Tate's latest title "From Java to Ruby" takes a look at moving to Ruby from the eyes of a Java manager. Greg Sporar, Sun's Chief Netbeans evangelist reviewed the book. Javaworld today also posted a 'Ruby for Java' article.
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Is Ruby Ready for the Enterprise?
Brad Banister of Enterprise Open Source Magazine takes a look at whether Ruby is ready for the enterprise in an article focused at developers and IT managers who are considering using Ruby in an enterprise environment.