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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/5

The EU could issue a formal objection to the Oracle-Sun deal within the next few days according to a Financial Times report.  Just a few weeks ago, the EU's...

1 replies - 1525 views - 11/05/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

NetBeans 6.8 Beta Coming; Does Oracle Care?

NetBeans 6.8 just crossed milestone 2 and the beta is set to release next Thursday.  Geertjan Wielenga, a NetBeans technical writer and DZone Leader, has been...

12 replies - 6660 views - 10/14/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Writing Comet Applications Using JRuby and the Atmosphere Framework

Writing Atmosphere's Comet based applications is simple. Imagine using JRuby instead of Java...it becomes really simple!. As with Scala, it is also possible to...

0 replies - 1160 views - 09/11/09 by Jean-Francois Arcand in Articles

Introducing the Strange Loop Conference - Oct 22 - 23, St Louis

DZone sat down with Alex Miller to talk about his upcoming conference Strange Loop.  The Strange Loop conference was started by Alex to bring developers...

0 replies - 2212 views - 08/20/09 by CodeJustin in Uncategorized

Charles, Tom and Nick to EngineYard - and the Future of JRuby

Most people have already heard the news that Charles, Tom and Nick are going to Engine Yard to work on JRuby. I’ve been asked for my opinion by a few people,...

2 replies - 1545 views - 07/31/09 by olabini in Articles

Language Type Systems

All programming languages have a type system. Typically, we classify these type systems as either static or dynamic. A shift that’s taking place is to...

3 replies - 1659 views - 07/29/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in Articles

Engine Yard Adopts Sun JRuby Developers

Three of the key JRuby developers, who Sun previous hired to work on the full JRuby implementation have just left to join Engine Yard. Engine Yard are...

0 replies - 2489 views - 07/28/09 by James Sugrue in News

RubyMine 1.0 Released - New Ruby and Rails IDE

JetBrains today uveiled RubyMine 1.0, the company's new integrated development environment (IDE) for Ruby and Rails development. RubyMine 1.0 includes advanced...

1 replies - 3077 views - 04/28/09 by Nitin Bharti in Announcements

Screencast: JBoss Rails and JBoss in the Cloud

In this presentation, recorded at the JBoss Virtual Experience 2009, Bob McWhirther explores running a Rails application on JBoss AS 5 and delves into the...

0 replies - 4339 views - 04/06/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

2009 Predictions, 2008 Predictions Revisited

It's once again that time of year, and in keeping with my tradition, I'll revisit the 2008 predictions to see how close I came before I start waxing prophetic...

7 replies - 9163 views - 01/02/09 by Ted Neward in Articles

Targeted Languages

The vast majority of actively evolving business software is written in Java these days. Java has long enjoyed the title of One Language to Rule Them All....

6 replies - 3745 views - 12/17/08 by Jay Fields in Articles

Language Specialization

Didn't you just totally sell out? -- Obie Fernandez @ Rails Summit Latin AmericaObie and I are good friends. He wasn't trying to insult me. I was talking about...

5 replies - 6149 views - 10/30/08 by Jay Fields in News

Counting Ruby Objects on the JRuby Heap

I got an email the other day from Michael Yuan. He had been working with some folks who were running an application on JRuby and they thought they might be...

0 replies - 3307 views - 10/08/08 by Gregg Sporar in News