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SourceMate 1.1 for Adobe’s Flash Builder 4 Released
SourceMate is a companion tool for Flash and Flex developers that adds support for code generation, refactoring, code templates, metadata tags and more. Release 1.1 features improvements like customization of the code that SourceMate generates and improved stack traces.
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DataMapper Reaches 1.0 Milestone
DataMapper, an Object Relational Mapper (ORM) for Ruby, arrived at a milestone recently reaching 1.0 status. The release, announced during RailsConf 2010, and coinciding with Dirkjan Bussink's presentation at the conference on the subject.
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How RESTful Are Web Frameworks That Claim REST Support?
There are plenty of web services platforms/application frameworks available today that support RESTful services to varying degrees. In a recent post Stefan Tilkov puts out a list of criteria that can serve as a starting point in evaluating these frameworks and platforms.
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Mobile Ruby Roundup: Rhodes 2.0 now MIT Licensed, JRuby on Android with Ruboto
Mobile Ruby developers get a new version of Rhodes: the 2.0 release brings many new features, and also puts the framework under the MIT license. іPhone developers will be glad to hear Rhodes apps are being accepted into the AppStore. Also: Android developers and users can use JRuby with Ruboto and Ruboto-IRB.
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RubyConf China: NoSQL, Rails, and Matz on Ruby 2.0
The 2nd annual RubyConf China, this year in Shanghai, China, featured Ruby creator Matz who talked about Ruby Community and Ruby 2.0. InfoQ takes a look at the other talks and what tools and databases Ruby developers in and around China use.
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HTML5 Case Study: Building the noVNC Client with WebSockets, Canvas and JavaScript
noVNC is a VNC client, implemented using HTML5 WebSockets, Canvas and JavaScript. InfoQ had a small Q&A with Joel Martin about noVNC and his experience in developing an HTML5 application. Challenges, common pitfalls, tooling and architecture of HTML5 applications are addressed.
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JRuby Roundup: 1.5.1, Google App Engine, Native Extensions
JRuby on Google App Engine has come a long way, recently with improvements in JRuby 1.5.1. Also: work on native extension support in Ruby Summer of Code.
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Apple's "HTML 5 and Web Standards" Showcase Criticized for Not Being Standard At All
Apple has created an HTML 5 Showcase that presents its vision for the next generation of the WWW. The fact that this page is only accessible using the Safari browser, while Apple advocates about web standards, has caused many to criticize the company’s lack of broader platform support.
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Announcing the 4th Annual QCon San Francisco: November 1-5, 2010
QCon San Francisco 2010, taking place November 1-5 is now open for registration ($700 savings until June 11th). QCon is an enterprise software development conference for team leads, architects, and project managers covering Architecture & Design, Java, NoSQL, Concurrency, SOA, Cloud Computing, Agile methodologies and other timely topics.
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Restful Services in Ruby using JRuby and Jersey
In an effort to bring the expressiveness of ruby and the REST frameworks in Java, Charles Nutter makes the case for delevoping RESTful services in JRuby+Rails.
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Google Wants a New Widely-Adopted Video Standard Based on the VP8 Codec [Updated]
Google has open-sourced WebM, a royalty free media file format for compressing and encoding video. While this is good news for many industry players which have shown their support for the new standard, some of the questions which have been raised so far have included concerns around licensing and code quality.
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Rubinius Turns 1.0
The long-awaited release of Rubinius 1.0 has finally arrived. It has been over 3-1/2 years in the making but this Ruby implementation written in Ruby is here and offers some promising features.
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Joshua Kerievsky Introduces "Sufficient Design" To The Craftsmanship Discussion
Software Craftsmanship has been a hot topic as of late. Joshua Kerievsky posits a possible counter-perspective to the underlying "code must always be clean!" ethos of the craftsmanship movement; something he calls "Sufficient Design". Learn about what Joshua means, and hear thoughts also from Bob Martin and Ron Jeffries on Kerievsky's ideas.
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Hobo 1.0 Builds on Top of Rails
Hobo, a collection of Ruby on Rails extensions designed to streamline Rails development, recently announced its 1.0 release. InfoQ spoke with project creator Tom Locke about the milestone.
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Sass 3 Delivers CSS Compatibility, Selector Inheritance
Haml/Sass 3 is nearing its final release, anticipated on May 10, with the addition of CSS-like brace syntax to Sass as a principal feature.