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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/21

The Cray XT5 "Jaguar" supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory is now the world's fastest computing system according to the TOP500...

0 replies - 1723 views - 11/20/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/19

It was announced this morning that closures would be added to JDK 7.  Mark Reinhold made the announcement at the Devoxx conference.  Before today, Sun could...

0 replies - 2420 views - 11/18/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

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 - 2883 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 - 7393 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 - 1238 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 - 2384 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 - 1587 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 - 1698 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 - 2594 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 - 3312 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 - 4529 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 - 9366 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 - 3807 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 - 6251 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 - 3395 views - 10/08/08 by Gregg Sporar in News