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Top Scripting Languages: PHP, Ruby, Python
Evans Data's published the result of its scripting language survey. PHP, Ruby and Python are the favorite choices of more than 500 developers and IT Professionals. Scripting languages usage in the enterprise has changed with time, the survey outlines the drawbacks and merits of each language.
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MacRuby 0.5 Will Have Faster VM Based on LLVM,
The first results of performance work on the next version of MacRuby are now available in an experimental branch. A new VM based on LLVM is used and already shows significant speed improvements over earlier MacRuby versions.
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Advancing the Ruby 1.9 Adoption
Ruby 1.9 adoption hasn't made much progress yet, the biggest problem being Gems that don't work with Ruby 1.9. "Ruby 1.9 Or Bust" is a new project that aims to increase the 1.9 compatibility for popular Gems.
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Ruby XML Roundup: Hpricot 0.7, Stable Libxml-ruby and Nokogiri
A few recent software releases have improved Ruby's XML support. After last years release of the Nokogiri XML library, Hpricot 0.7 has now been released with performance improvements. Also, libxml-ruby, which is built on the same XML library as Nokogiri has been released and recently caught up with Nokogiri's speed.
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Interview: Matt Todd on Halcyon
In this interview recorded at RubyFringe, Matt Todd talks about his work on the Halcyon framework and how to stop worrying and simple start implementing ideas, dumb or not.
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Presentation: Being Dumb And Using It To Your Advantage
In this talk from RubyFringe, Matt Todd recommends to stop worrying and simply start implementing ideas, dumb or not.
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Crowdsourcing JavaScript Integration Testing with Test Swarm
John Resig creator of the jQuery JavaScript library, has released Test Swarm, a platform for distributed continuous integration testing for client-side JavaScript. Frustrated with traditional JavaScript testing environments that don’t scale, John’s new project, aims to provide a systems for outsourcing browser related testing to large groups of people or communities.
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Is It Premature to Talk About C++ and Java’s Legacy?
Bruce Eckel’s recent blog post on the legacy left by C++ and Java generated a lot of reaction. While mentioning some design mistakes, he concludes that both languages have had a significant role in programming languages evolution and an important positive legacy. But is it not too early to talk about their legacy?
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Wee: Continuation Based Ruby Web Framework
Wee is a web framework similar to Seaside that uses continuations and provides reusable UI components. With Ruby 1.9, continuations stopped leaking memory and can therefore be used safely in a production environment.
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Presentation: Evolving the Java Platform
In this presentation recorded at QCon London 2008, Ola Bini talks about the current status of the JVM regarding languages running on top of it and the need to evolve in order to support dynamic languages.
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Interview: Tim Bray on the Future of the Web
In this interview made during QCon SF 2008, Tim Bray talks about why he is not convinced with the buzz surrounding Rich Internet Applications and shares his ideas on Cloud Computing. He also expresses his opinion regarding the debate REST vs. WS-* and the future directions web technologies will be taking.
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MIX 09: Justin Smith on Azure Access Control Services
Justin Smith and John Shewchuck delivered an introduction to Windows Azure ACS. ACS is basically a hosted Secure Token Service that operates in a "claims in-claims out" mode. John demoed the ACS in a Web application writen in Phyton and JQuery running on Google Apps Engine. ACS supports any identity mechanism (Google, Yahoo, Facebook...) and can be invoked from any technology stack.
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MIX 09: Nigel Ellis on Azure SQL Data Services
Nigel Ellis, Architect at Microsoft, presented today a detailed overview of the new relational model of Azure SQL Data Service, which was announced a couple of weeks ago on the team's blog. Nigel also demonstrated how SDS could be used by WordPress (a PHP application) via an ODBC driver.
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Rhodes 1.0 Coming up, RhoHub beta
The Rhodes framework brings Ruby to many smartphone platforms, Symbian, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, iPhone and with the upcoming 1.0 release Android. We talked to Adam Blum of Rhomobile about what's coming in the 1.0 release, real world applications using Rhodes and the new RhoHub service.
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Rails 2.3.2 Arrives with Many Updates
The Ruby on Rails team has released the latest version of Rails, version 2.3.2. Rails 2.3.2 comes after a few months following the Rails 2.2 release and offers many significant changes which should be of interest to all Rails developers.