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New Relic updates RPM to Improve Collaboration and Integration
New Relic announced the availability of RPM 1.2 which goes a long way into making the job of the developer better with improved collaboration and integration.
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Web-based IDEs to become mainstream?
Last week Mozilla released Bespin, a web-based framework for code editing and only a few days later Boris Bokowski and Simon Kaegi implemented an Eclipse-based Bespin server using headless Eclipse plug-ins. With the presentation of a web-based workbench at EclipseCon and the release of products like the Heroku web-based IDE for RoR apps, it seems that web-based IDEs might soon become mainstream.
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Engine Yard to Take Over Ruby 1.8.6 Maintenance?
Ruby 1.8.6 is still in heavy use, although its replacement 1.8.7 has been around for over half a year now. Now Engine Yard plans, in accordance with the 1.8.6 maintainer, to take over the maintenance of Ruby 1.8.6 and sponsor some long needed performance fixes.
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Koushik Dutta is Bringing C#, Ruby, and Python to Google’s Android
Koushik Dutta has reached a major milestone in his effort to support C#, Ruby, and Python on Google’s mobile phone platform. In a recent announcement he has demonstrated by-directional interoperability between Dalvik and Mono.
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Interview: Luke Francl Explains Why Testing Is Overrated
In this interview filmed during RubyFringe 2008, Luke Francl explains his position towards testing. While supporting unit testing, he thinks testing is not going to reveal all application defects. Development teams should practice code reviews and usability tests which are likely to discover bugs not visible though other methods.
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Article: InfoQ Editors' Recommended Reading List
Members of the InfoQ editorial team discuss a number of books which have influenced how we think about software development, architecture and managing projects.
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The State of Ruby 1.9 Support in IDEs
The first stable release of the Ruby 1.9 series has been released, but what's the status of 1.9 support in IDEs? We asked the developers of NetBeans, RadRails, Ruby in Steel, and RubyMine.
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JRuby and Clojure - A Good Match?
Clojure is a JVM based LISP with interesting properties for concurrency (persistent data structures, STM). New libraries for Clojure are popping up - and some of them are inspired by Ruby libraries such as HAML, ActiveRecord, Rack, and others. We also look at combining JRuby and Clojure to get the best of both Ruby and LISP world, as well as access to technologies such as STM.
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Article: JavaScript Test Driven Development with JsUnit and JSMock
This article by Dennis Byrne is a crash course in writing maintainable JavaScript. Dennis uses stubs, mock objects and a little bit of dependency injection. He also uses JsUnit to run unit tests and a JavaScript mock object library called JsMock.
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Ruby 1.9.1 Library Compatibility Roundup
Ruby 1.9.1 is out - the first stable release in the 1.9.x series. Ruby 1.9.1's performance improvements are a compelling reason to upgrade - but for now, library compatibility varies greatly. We take a look at what's confirmed to work, and ways to keep track of the progress.
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Presentation: Jazzers and Programmers
In this presentation from RubyFringe, Nick Sieger explains the history and nature of Jazz music and what it has in common with Programming.
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Rubinius Progress - Interview with Brian Ford
The Ruby implementation Rubinius has attracted a lot of interest. After the project completed a major rewrite of its VM, we caught up with Brian Ford, Rubinius team member, to talk about the state of the project.
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Presentation: CouchDB and Me
In this talk from RubyFringe, Damien Katz explains what drove him to create CouchDB, why he chose Erlang, how it ended up as an Apache project and much more.
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Interview: Dan Grigsby Shares Secrets of Successful Entrepreneurship
In this interview made by InfoQ’s Rob Bazinet during RubyFringe 2008, Dan Grigsby talks about programming and entrepreneurship, how a programmer can take his idea and transform it into a successful product.
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Clojure Brings STM, LISP to the JVM
Clojure, a LISP-style language for the JVM, is gaining interest quickly. One of the reasons is definitely its approach to concurrency which builds on Software Transactional Memory (STM). We talked to Stuart Halloway who's writing the first book on Clojure for the Pragmatic Programmers.