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RubyLearning.com to Relaunch Free Online Lessons
After achieving popularity last summer, Satish Talim at <a href="http://www.rubylearning.com/" target="_new">RubyLearning</a> is doing it again with his free online course. It started as a way for him to pick up the language, and after the community picked up on it, over 100 people joined him. He hopes to do better this time.
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Ruby 1.9 adds Fibers for lightweight concurrency
Fibers were recently in the Ruby 1.9 branch. The Coroutine-like concept has many uses, such as implementing lightweight concurrency and others. We look at the concept and influences of Fibers in Ruby 1.9, as well as code samples.
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JRuby 1.0.1 release, JRuby 1.1 plan posted
Bugfix release JRuby 1.0.1 has just been made available, In other news: the planned items for JRuby 1.1, due this fall, were posted.
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FiveRuns Readies Latest Component of Rails Stack - Installer
FiveRuns, an enterprise Rails company, have built an installer for Ruby and associated packages.
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Ruby Hoedown Presentations available online
Videos of the sessions from the Ruby Hoedown conference are now available online. Topics such as Merb, Ruby tuning, VoIP with Ruby are covered, as well as Smalltalk and Ruby history and much more.
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IBM affirms Restful SOA & dynamic languages with Project Zero
In a recent interview, IBM WebSphere CTO Jerry Cuomo affirms that REST has become a core focus for IBM with Project Zero, a new web application development framework continues the trend away from pure java and towards dynamic languages for web application development and also emphasizes RESTful service development.
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Prototype 1.6 RC Includes DOM Builder and Event API Overhaul
Earlier this month the Prototype team released the first RC of 1.6.0. This release contains a number of core API upgrades, bug fixes, and new features. The Event API has been overhauled and a new DOM Builder API has also been added.
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Linked-In, Second Life, eBay, Orbitz, Yahoo! architectures to be presented @ QCon SF
The 'architectures you've always wondered about' track at QCon San Francisco this year will be featuring the architectures of Linked-In, Second Life, eBay, Orbitz, & Yahoo!, presented directly from key architects at those companies. QCon itself also has a number of other tracks on architecture, Java, .NET, Ruby, Agile, research technologies, and more.
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Capistrano gets competition: Vlad the Deployer
Capistrano, a popular deployment tool for Rails, is challenged by Vlad the Deployer, a tool which offers similar functionality with a much simpler implementation. We talked to the Ruby Hit Squad group that released version 1.0 of Vlad.
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ORM with JRuby - ActiveHibernate
The ActiveHibernate project brings Hibernate features to JRuby - for those tricky ORM use cases that go beyond what ActiveRecord offers. We talked to project maintainer Johan Andries.
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Eclipse DLTK 0.9 Supports Tcl, Ruby and More
In the Eclipse Europa simultaneous release, in addition to Eclipse 3.3, a number of other Eclipse projects were released, including Eclipse DLTK 0.9. DLTK, or Dynamic Language Tool Kit is a plugin designed to add support for dynamic languages within Eclipse. InfoQ took the opportunity to speak with Andrey Platov, the Eclipse DLTK Project Lead.
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Bringing MVC to JavaScript - SproutCore
SproutIt has released SproutCore a new full MVC application framework for JavaScript. . It is designed to be run against any server back-end setup. InfoQ set out to discover what makes SproutCore different by interviewing creator, Charles, Jolley.
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JRuby targets Java 5
After long discussions, the JRuby team has decided to target Java 5 with post-1.0 JRuby. Users stuck on 1.4 need not despair, though. A solution using Retroweaver has been set up.
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Gemstone OODB to support JRuby, Rubinius
Gemstone is working on Ruby support for their Object Database products, starting off with JRuby. We talked to Alan McKean from Gemstone about what's to come, technical details and Gemstone's plans with Rubinius.
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Presentation: Applying Agile to Ruby
In this presentation, Fred George talks about the application of agile practices in the enterprise and how they can help with the adoption of Ruby.