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Rubinius roundup
Rubinius development is rapidly gathering speed, and performance is shaping up well, as seen in recent benchmark results. With even members of the JRuby team contributing and praising its merits, it's time to look at the current state of Rubinius again.
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Is it too late for Parrot VM?
The Parrot Virtual Machine recently had it’s sixth birthday. Parrot is a VM that sprung out of the Perl6 development, which primarily targets dynamic languages, but also for instance .NET and C99. But six years is a long time, and both Microsoft and Sun is targeting this segment. Is it too late for Parrot?
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Kent Beck, Martin Fowler, Speaking at QCon SF Nov 7-9
Kent Beck & Martin Fowler will be keynoting & delivering tutorials at the QCon San Francisco Nov 7-9th conference. Also, the schedule has been finalized with a new complete track covering security from a development perspective, and also a panel on the future of Java development including Joshua Bloch, JRuby's Charles Nutter, Spring's Rod Johnson, and .NET's Erik Meijer.
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Ruby Shoes for lightweight GUIs, graphics and animation
Ruby GUI toolkits are a dime dozen - but Why The Lucky Stiff managed to create one with a novel approach. Ruby Shoes facilitates animation, 2D graphics, and simple interaction. We take a look at its distinguishing features.
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CodeGear Releases Ruby/Rails IDE with Intelligent Completion of Dynamic Methods
Today CodeGear released their Ruby/Rails IDE 3rdRail. Among the IDE's key features are intelligent code completion, refactoring support, and a project aware command line interface.
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Warbler: Rails Packaging for Java EE WAR files enhancement
To enable easy deployment of your Rails application to JEE Servers, Nick Sieger improved upon Goldspike with 'Warbler', a new tool to make it easier to package your Rails application into a war.
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Gone in 160 seconds - cracking passwords with Rainbow Hash Cracking
The Microsoft password strength checker rates "Fgpyyih804423" as a strong password, but the multi-platform password cracking tool ophcrack was able to crack it in 160 seconds using a Rainbow Hash Table attack. Jeff Atwood takes a look at this attack technique, and offers suggestions for safe password storage.
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.NET to Ruby connector available
The Ruby Connector allows communication between .NET and Ruby. This brings the power of .NET to Ruby, and allows to use Ruby to power Visual Studio generated GUIs.
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Michael Stonebraker: Major RDBMSes are legacy technology
Michael Stonebraker, co-founder of the Ingres and Postgres relational database management systems (RDBMS) and CTO of Vertica Systems, laid the framework for a debate in the database community by declaring that most major databases should be considered legacy technology.
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RubyConf 2007 Registration Open
The registration for RubyConf 2007 is now open. Since RubyConf is a quite small conference, speed is of the issue to get a spot. The Agenda promises interesting talks on Ruby implementations and more.
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JNA brings native code to JRuby
The Java Native Access (JNA) library brings simple POSIX support to JRuby, and might just make native extensions possible.
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IronRuby now on Rubyforge
IronRuby, Microsoft's implementation of Ruby for .NET, is now hosted on RubyForge. The current state of the code is available via the Subversion repository.
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Reporting tool Ruport releases version 1.2
Ruport, the Ruby reporting tool, was just released in version 1.2. Meanwhile, the Ruport Book effort is coming along as well.
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Ruby x Agile: The shift from machine-performance to human-performance
This article is the second in the Ruby x Agile series, a set of six short videos exploring the relationship between Ruby and Agile methodologies, featuring Ruby creator Yukihiro Matsumoto.
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High Performance Ruby MVC: Merb
By some accounts, Ruby on Rails request-processing has slowed 10-20% with each recent release, so Ezra Zygmuntowicz built his own Ruby-based MVC framework using some of the best parts of Rails. Recently, at the Ruby Hoedown event, Ezra demonstrated how Merb keeps the agility of ActiveRecord while focusing on high-load performance and concurrency.