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QCon London Update: 3 Months Away, Tony Hoare, Martin Fowler, Dion Hinchcliffe
InfoQ's third annual QCon London conference is coming back March 11-13, just 3 months away! Last year's QCon London had over 450 registrants & 100 speakers. This year will beat the economic gloom, join us for another awesome networking and educational experience!
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Merb Will Be Merged Into Rails 3.0
Big news for Ruby web frameworks: Merb and Rails will be merged in Rails 3.0. The merge will bring some of Merb's characteristics to Rails: a defined public API, ability to run a barebones version rails-core (like merb-core) with further functionality available in the form of plugins, performance improvements and more.
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Dynamic Language IDEs: Aptana Pydev and DLTK Python
This part of our series about IDEs for dynamic languages takes a look at Python IDEs. We take a look at Aptana's Pydev and DLTK Python, as well as the status of static analysis and automatic refactoring for Python.
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Ruby on Rails gets down to the Metal
The Ruby on Rails team has been busy moving Rails to the next level with the adoption of Rack. The implementation of Rack allows developers to use many available middleware pieces in their applications. This addition has allowed the Rails team to create Rails Metal, a wrapper around the generic Rack middleware which sits in front of a Rails request with access to Rails sessions.
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Dynamic Language IDEs: Aptana Ruby and DLTK Ruby
In this first part of our series about IDEs for dynamic languages, we take a look at the current state of Aptana's und DLTK's Ruby IDE. We talked to the developers on these project to find out the current state of these tools.
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JRuby 1.1.6 Released, Improves Ruby 1.9 Support
JRuby 1.1.6 is now available. The latest release brings the usual list of speed improvements and bug fixes, but a big new feature is the full support for parsing Ruby 1.9 source code, as well as improved Ruby 1.9 support.
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Rhodes Brings Ruby Apps to iPhone, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry
Rhodes, an open source toolkit, allows to write Ruby client applications for mobile phones, currently the iPhone, Windows Mobile and RIM BlackBerry. By bundling a version of the Ruby runtime, it even gets around the restrictions of the iPhone, and also gets access to GPS, and other features. We talked to Adam Blum of Rhomobile about the technology behind Rhodes and how to write apps.
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Ruby Performance: Great Shootout Results And A Discovery About Binary MRI vs Source Compiled MRI
Antonio Cangiano has again benchmarked all Ruby VMs, MRI 1.8 and 1.9.1, REE, JRuby, Rubinius, IronRuby and MagLev. The results show the steady improvement of the performance of all VMs - and a few surprising lessons of how the performance of MRI can vary.
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HTML 5 Web Sockets vs. Comet and Ajax
InfoQ discusses with Richard Smith from Kaazing, about the evolution of technologies like AJAX, Comet and how they match against the promising HTML 5 Web Sockets standard.
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Presentation: Ruby.rewrite(Ruby)
In this RubyFringe talk, Reginald Braithwaite shows how to write Ruby that reads, writes, and rewrites Ruby. The demos include extending the Ruby language with conditional expressions, new forms of evaluation such as call-by-name and call-by-need, and more.
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Interview: Yehuda Katz Explains Merb
In this interview from RubyFringe, Yehuda Katz talks about the design principles behind Merb and its focus on a stable API. Yehuda also mentions Yard, an RDoc replacement, which provides a simple way to define contracts for Ruby methods.
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Ruby FFI Brings Native Library Access to JRuby, MRI
The Ruby FFI library allows to access native code loaded from shared libraries. Created for Rubinius, it was recently ported to JRuby, MRI (1.8 and 1.9). Ruby FFI 0.2.0 has now been released.
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RubyConf'08 Videos: Ruby VMs: Internals of YARV, Rubinius, MagLev
The videos from RubyConf '08 are available. We looked at the Ruby VM talks. Sasada Koichi, creator of the Ruby 1.9 VM, talks about the state of the VM, experiments with Ruby to C AOT, Ricsin and more. Evan Phoenix talks about the state of the Rubinius C++ VM. A detailed talk shows how MagLev is implemented. Also: MacRuby, JRuby, IronRuby, VM optimizations, RubySpec.
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Silverlight for Linux: Moonlight 1.0 Beta 1 Is Available for Download
Moonlight is an open source implementation of Microsoft’s Silverlight targeted at Linux and Unix/X11 systems. Moonlight has been developed under the Mono project since September 2007 and is sponsored by Novell. Moonlight 1.0 Beta 1 has been released to the general public.
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Article: Book Excerpt and Interview: Aptana RadRails, An IDE for Rails Development
Aptana RadRails: An IDE for Rails Development by Javier Ramírez discusses the latest Aptana RadRails IDE, a development environment for creating Ruby on Rails applications.