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Top Ten Reasons to Love Ruby on Rails
October 16th, 2007 | Author: admin
Joe McGlynn from CodeGear wrote a great article for Dr. Dobbs Journal.
He lists 10 reasons to love Ruby on Rails. The first reason really resonated with me since I’m a systems architect, and I understand the dangers of over-architecting solutions
“1. Many line-of-business applications do not require over-architected, complex and costly software systems to operate. Over-engineering applications increases costs, wastes time and dilutes competitive advantage. Rapidly-constructed software applications that deliver essential functionality with good scalability and low maintenance costs are easily achievable using Ruby and the RoR framework.”
Check out all 10 reasons in the DDJ article.
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Ruby Compiler is complete!
September 29th, 2007 | Author: admin
It is a glorious day in JRuby-land, for the compiler is now complete.
For the first time ever, there is a complete, fully-functional Ruby 1.8 compiler.
Pluggd – Speech Search is Hot
September 25th, 2006 | Author: admin
Seattle based podcast discovery and management service Pluggd is unveiling a major new feature at DEMO this weekend that combines speech recognition and semantic analysis to let users search for and skip to parts of an audio file that are related to topics of interest to them. It
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- Cowboy Charles Lowell embedded the fast FOSS V8 JavaScript interpreter into Ruby. Git it http://github.com/cowboyd/therubyracer
- I favorited a YouTube video -- OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - Rube Goldberg Machine version http://youtu.be/qybUFnY7Y8w?a
- I favorited a YouTube video -- What is Hadoop? Other big data terms like MapReduce? Cloudera's CEO talk... http://youtu.be/S9xnYBVqLws?a
- How To Find Ruby User Groups March 9, 2010Ruby User Groups (RUGs, for short) are typically informal organizations put together to encourage Ruby developers with certain areas to get together, share ideas, and, often, to have some fun. If you're lacking for inspiration or want to get to know some Rubyists within certain parts of the world (or just around the corner, if you're lucky), headin […]
- Vagrant: EC2-Like Virtual Machine Building and Provisioning from Ruby March 8, 2010Vagrant is a Ruby-based tool for building and deploying virtualized development environments. It uses Oracle's open-source VirtualBox virtualization system along with the Chef configuration management engine along with lots of Ruby goodness to automate the creation and provisioning of virtual machines for development purposes. […]