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  • How Many Rubies Does the Future Hold?

    RubyConf 2006 still fresh in their memory, some Rubyists are beginning to wonder if the future of Ruby includes fragmentation, particularly given the large number of competing and potentially-incompatible platforms in development.

  • New Closures Proposal from Doug Lea, Josh Bloch, and Bob Lee

    A new proposal for adding closures to Java 7 has been proposed by Josh Bloch, Doug Lea, and Bob Lee. It was drafted in response to the other major proposal currently in the works. Lee notes that the goal of the new proposal is to try to find a balance between the power of closures and the weight of new syntax.

  • On migrating from Python & Zope to Java with EJB 3 & JBoss SEAM

    Nuxeo has announced that the next version of its ECM product will be based entirely on Java, using JBoss SEAM, EJB 3, and JBoss. The move is interesting for a company claiming to be "the biggest Zope-focused company in the world." InfoQ spoke to Nuxeo's engineering team to find the why and how of their move.

  • InfoQ Book: Enterprise SOA Adoption Strategies

    In the lastest book in the InfoQ series, Capgemini CTO and SOA standards body member Steve Jones argues that for SOA to succeed we must move our thoughts away from the implementation technologies and towards the "what" of the business. Steve explains how to construct an overall business service architecture.

  • Yahoo! Launches Ruby Developer Center

    Yahoo! progresses with its support of Ruby with the opening of a "Ruby Developer Center" for Ruby developers who wish to access Yahoo's services.

  • Migrating Applications to Struts2

    Struts was first released in June of 2001 and has become the de-facto standard for web application development. In December 2002 it was announced that WebWork and Struts Ti would join forces to become Struts Action Framework 2.0 and the official successor to Struts. In a new InfoQ article series, Ian Roughley looks at the task of moving applications from Struts to Struts2.

  • New Official Ruby Site Launches

    A year in the making, the newly styled official Ruby language site launches to much fanfare.

  • Sun Officially Backs Ruby, Brings JRuby In-House

    Charles Nutter, one of the developers of the JRuby (Ruby on JVM) project, announces JRuby is being brought into the Sun Microsystems fold.

  • 24.37% of Web Developers to Try Ruby in Next 12 Months

    A recent SitePoint survey of 5000 Web developers show 24.37% are set to try Ruby in the next year.

  • InfoQ Article: From Java to Ruby - Risk

    "Ruby is risky" is a common perception. As Ruby on Rails moves closer to the mainstream, that risk will decrease. In this article, Bruce Tate examines the changing risk profiles for Java and Ruby from a managers perspective, examining Java's initial adoption and also common risk myths about Rails.

  • InfoQ Article: Why Would a .NET Programmer Learn Ruby on Rails?

    .NET developer Stephen Chu gives us some insight into his transition to Ruby on Rails programming. Quote: "By being loyal to one technology stack, I am bound to unconsciously make biased decisions, which will ultimately hinder my ability to deliver business value."

  • InfoQ Article: Simplifying Enterprise Apps with Spring 2 and AspectJ

    Adrian Colyer, AspectJ lead and Chief Scientist at Interface21 has contributed an excellent article which shows how to use Spring 2's new AspectJ integration features followed by a roadmap for the adoption of Aspect Oriented Programming on an enterprise project, with lots of specific examples of how and where to apply Aspects.

  • Tech Stories Need to Include People and Technology

    Brian Marick, reflecting on conversations heard at Agile2006, blogged about his concern that some of us are telling stories from the purely human or social viewpoint, while other are telling technology-only stories, noting that that XP isn't a story you can tell well without talking about both of these. Marick encourages us to include both when we communicate in and about projects.

  • O'Reilly: Ruby Book Sales Surpass Perl

    Tim O'Reilly reports that Ruby book sales have surpassed those of Perl for the first time this quarter.

  • InfoQ Article: From Java to Ruby...

    The Ruby on Rails revolution has been led by developers. Convincing management takes another kind of persuasion. A manager needs to understand the risks of adopting Ruby, the risks of snubbing mainstream languages like Java--even for one project--and the overall technical landscape of Ruby's capabilities.

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