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Interview: Geoffrey Grosenbach on PeepCode
In this interview taped at RubyFringe, Geoffrey Grosenbach talks about the Ruby and Rails community, the popular PeepCode screencasts and books, and more.
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Performance Roundup: Heap Stacks Boost Threads in 1.8.x, MacRuby AOT, ZenProfile and EventHooks
New patches by Joe Damato improve the efficiency of Ruby 1.8.x's green threads with heap stacks: instead of copying the entire stack at every context switch, the patches actually switch between different stacks. Ryan Davis released zenprofile and event_hook for efficient profiling. Also: work on a MacRuby Ahead of Time compiler using LLVM has started.
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Location-Aware Browsing to become Mainstream?
With the W3C working on a specification that defines an API for providing scripted access to geographical location information, Mozilla recently announced built-in Geolocation support for Firefox 3.5. This is aligned with an earlier announcement from Opera that also adds support for Geolocation in their browser. Will this make geographically aware applications ubiquitous?
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Presentation: Testing Your Presentation Layer
Yehuda Katz shows how to test a web app's UI using technologies such as Johnson (Ruby to Javascript bridge), jspec (BDD for Javascript), Webrat and others.
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Open Database Alliance: New Direction for mySQL
Monty Program Ab, a MySQL database engineering company, and Percona, a MySQL services and support firm, today announced the "The Open Database Alliance." This effort will fork the mySQL code base, using MariaDB as a starting point. MariaDB was created by Monty Widenius, co-founder of mySQL.
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Interview: Talking RubyMine with JetBrains Developer Dmitry Jemerov
Dmitry Jemerov is the lead developer of the RubyMine IDE project at JetBrains. RubyMine is the new integrated development environment from JetBrains focusing on helping Ruby and Ruby on Rails developers be more productive and efficient programmers.
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Flex: Engine Yard's New Cloud Offering
Engine Yard announced Flex at this year's Rails Conf. Flex runs on Amazon's EC2, but unlike its smaller brother Solo, Flex scales over more than one instance. We talked to Michael Mullany, VP of Marketing at Engine Yard to get more information.
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jsFiction Releases jsDraw2D Javascript Library
jsFiction announces the release of a 2D javascript graphics library, jsDraw2D - a pure JavaScript library to draw 2D graphics on web pages inside web browser without using SVG or VML. In addition to basic shapes (e.g. polygon, circle, arc), the developer can also create Bezier curves (linear, quadratic, cubic), set origins, and set scaling.
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Erlang and Ruby Roundup: 37Signals, Erlectricity
37Signals is the latest company to use Erlang in combination with Ruby. The recent Erlang Factory conference also had other examples of Erlang use at EngineYard as well as a talk about Erlectricity, the library that connects Erlang and Ruby.
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Ruby VM Roundup: Nokogiri and Nailgun on JRuby, Ruby 1.9.1p129, MagLev Update
JRuby 1.3 will allow to reduce startup times in some situations using Nailgun. Nokogiri, a popular XML library, now runs on the latest JRuby thanks to ruby-ffi. Finally: Ruby 1.9.1-p129 is a new release that fixes a few bugs and security issues.
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Ruby Performance Roundup: Ruby 1.9.1 Real World Performance, GC vs EventMachine, Ruby Compiler
When it comes to performance, Ruby 1.9.1 seems to clearly beat it's predecessor, as a new real world benchmark shows. There are other ways, though, to avoid inefficiencies in 1.8.x, by knowing how the GC works or when to disable pthreads. Also: Viktor Hokstad's been busy writing a Ruby compiler from scratch.
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Presentation: The State of the DSL Art in Ruby
In this talk Glenn Vanderburg discusses what the Ruby community has learned about building DSLs, and shows how to build state-of-the-art DSLs without going overboard.
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RiCal: A New iCalendar Library for Ruby
RiCal is an implementation of RFC2445, better known as the iCalendar format. We talked to its creator Rick DeNatale to learn why Ruby needed a new library for parsing and generating the iCalendar format.
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Character Encodings and M17N Explained
James Edward Gray II wrote a series of posts on character encoding in Ruby, providing various tricks and detailed explanations to make you ready for Ruby 1.9.
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Virtual Panel: Evolution of JavaScript Frameworks for HTML 5
In this virtual panel the creators and core developers of Dojo, YUI, Prototype, script.aculo.us, MooTools and GWT talk about the evolution of JavaScript for the new API's that are exposed with HTML 5. These API's deal with 2D drawing, drag & drop, history, media, client-side persistent storage, server-sent events and more.