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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.

Tags: Architecture, computer, framework, language, love, Ruby, web sites

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.

Tags: compiler, computer, java, language, Ruby

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

Tags: analysis, language, MP3, Podcast, semantics, speech, topic