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 Heroku, Salesforce.com’s bought-in Rack-/Ruby-on-Rails-based Platform-as-a-Service, has hired Ruby creator Yukihiro Matsumoto as its chief Ruby architect expecting he’ll make the language friendlier.
Heroki couldn’t help point out that Ruby runs many of the world’s most popular brand...Jul. 17, 2011 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,613 |
 The NetBeans team has just announced that they have discontinued Ruby on Rails support in NetBeans.
We realize this news can be sad for some of you. But take it as an opportunity to try a new tool! The kind of tool that evolves fast, stays on the cutting edge and has a passionate comm...Jan. 31, 2011 06:42 AM EST Reads: 4,607 |
 Cloud Expo, Inc. announced on Thursday that Cloud Expo 2011 New York, the 8th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, will take place June 6-9, 2011, at the Javits Center in New York City. The International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world’s leading Cloud-...Jan. 28, 2011 08:45 PM EST Reads: 16,457 |
 Salesforce.com said Wednesday morning that it’s buying Heroku, the Ruby and Ruby on Rails application platform-as-a-service house, for $212 million cash net of what the privately owned 30-man cloud player has on hand plus roughly $27 million in stock and another $10 million in cash for...Dec. 9, 2010 09:15 AM EST Reads: 5,522 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that the 8th International Cloud Expo will take place June 6-9, 2011, in New York City.
The International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world's leading Cloud-focused event and is held three times a year, in New York, Silicon Valley and ...Oct. 7, 2010 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 22,666 |
 RightScale, the cloud manager, has moved into development and test with a cloud management solution that software development and testing teams can use to provision and use cloud computing resources.
The new RightScale Development & Test Solution Pack supports four development langua...Oct. 5, 2010 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 6,030 |
 CIO and CTO salaries will see a spike of 12.5% in 2010, according to research conducted by Bluewolf on salaries in the Tri-state region (New York, Conn. and New Jersey). Bluewolf is a global technology consulting firm and the preeminent source of salary data and statistics for IT profe...Nov. 18, 2009 08:00 PM EST Reads: 12,760 |
 JetBrains have announced the general availability of RubyMine 2.0, a powerful IDE for Ruby and Rails development. RubyMine's second major release this year delivers many additions and improvements and is a free upgrade for all existing users, according to the "year of free updates" lic...Nov. 16, 2009 11:21 AM EST Reads: 4,472 |
 With the iPhone more than earning its place in the consumer market, it is now being adopted by enterprises. But just how easy it is to create robust enterprise applications for the iPhone, as well as all the other major mobile platforms? With Ruby and HTML in the cloud, according to Rh...Oct. 28, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 6,271 |
 Engine Yard, the Ruby-on-Rails automation and management start-up, has raised $19 million in third-round financing, pushing it total funding over $37 million. Investors included Amazon, DAG Ventures, Bay Partners, Presidio Ventures (which is really Sumitomo), Benchmark Capital and New ...Oct. 9, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,171 |
 Rackspace Hosting Thursday open sourced the specifications for its Cloud Servers and Cloud Files APIs under the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license.
It says it worked with developers in an open community to create the specifications and they can now copy, implement and modify t...Jul. 23, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 10,613 |
 Engine Yard, the Ruby-on-Rails doyen, is supposed to announce its Engine Yard Cloud platform today along with Flex, a cloud service plan for production-level Rails applications.
The company says its Engine Yard Cloud leverages hundreds of man-years of experience in deploying, managi...Jul. 21, 2009 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 10,730 |
 Google's now year-old App Engine infrastructure, previously limited to running only programs written in a particular species of Python, a less-than-mainstream tongue but an internal Google favorite, is learning to accept programs written in Java. With the move, Google is reaching out t...Apr. 8, 2009 06:03 PM EDT Reads: 8,160 |
 Aptana Journal launched today on Ulitzer. Aptana Studio is a complete web development environment that combines powerful authoring tools with a collection of online hosting and collaboration services that help you and your team do more, at www.aptana.com. The editor of Aptana Journal, ...Apr. 8, 2009 04:15 AM EDT Reads: 6,727 |
JumpBox has announced the release of 38 Open Source applications to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service. The release enables server application deployment, configuration, and management almost completely independent of any user hardware. JumpBox offers small to mid-sized org... Jan. 5, 2009 01:00 AM EST Reads: 7,039 |
 "Ruby on Rails is always evolving and has over the past five years gone through some fifty-plus public releases," said David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Rails and member of the Rails Core Team. "Rails developers need the supporting ecosystem to keep up with that evolution. New Relic...Dec. 4, 2008 10:24 AM EST Reads: 5,618 |
 Writing shell scripts to automate the build and deploy process for ColdFusion applications is not very much fun. The Jakarta Ant project is an open-source, cross-platform alternative that makes it easy to automate the build and deploy process.Dec. 1, 2008 12:15 PM EST Reads: 31,864 Replies: 2 |
 Lisa Schmeiser this morning filed an InfoWorld story in which she writes about the results of her research on recession-proof IT jobs. Three skill sets appear in her story: Virtualization first, then AJAX, and then Ruby-on-Rails, among the Web 2.0 technologies. Virtualization and Cloud...Oct. 25, 2008 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 15,860 Replies: 4 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global rich Internet technology provider Appcelerator named "Platinum Sponsor" of SYS-CON's upcoming AJAX World Conference & Expo 2008 West, which will take place October 20-22, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon Valley, ...Oct. 17, 2008 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,080 |
 Reminding people of how its backing was the making of Linux, IBM, to no one's surprise, has thrown its support behind cloud computing, that delicious nexus of every chi-chi buzzword technology currently in vogue: Web 2.0, rich Internet applications, software-as-a-service, SOA, grid com...Sep. 29, 2008 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 43,858 Replies: 2 |
Engine Yard, provider of the Ruby and Rails deployment platform, today announced it has closed a Series B financing round of $15 million led by New Enterprise Associates, Inc. (NEA), with participation from Amazon.com and current investor Benchmark Capital. Peter Sonsini, Partner at NE... Jul. 31, 2008 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,757 |
 Java developers have had a nice ride the last few years. With ferocious competition in the Java tools space, the tools they use have been getting better and better. Where one tool innovates, such as with quick fixes, the competitors quickly duplicate and expand on that innovation. This...Jun. 23, 2008 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 11,153 Replies: 1 |
 From Application Virtualization to Xen, a round-up of the virtualization themes & topics being discussed in NYC June 23-24, 2008 by the world-class speaker faculty at the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held by SYS-CON Events in The Roosevelt Hotel, in midtown ...Jun. 10, 2008 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 109,494 Replies: 2 |
 The mouse was the original idea of Doug Engelbart who was the head of the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at Stanford Research Institute. Engelbart's philosophy is best embodied, in my opinion, in the design of another device that he invented, the five-finger keyboard - with keys li...Apr. 10, 2008 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 34,339 Replies: 6 |
 Microsoft today attempted to exorcize the interoperability bogeymen that have haunted it since it was first discovered to be using secret APIs 20 years ago, bogeymen that now quote European antitrust law at it and carry writs from the Court of First Instance in Luxembourg. To avoid fur...Feb. 21, 2008 10:00 PM EST Reads: 21,733 Replies: 2 |
 Ruby on Rails has certainly played a role in delivering Rich Web Applications which take full advantage of AJAX. In this session, delegates will learn how Ruby on Rails empowers developers to create rich interfaces without writing any JavaScript. This talk will: Give an introduction to...Jan. 24, 2008 03:00 PM EST Reads: 6,229 |
 The book will cover Rails 2.0. Major chapters or sections will cover topics such as models, views, controllers, plug-ins, deploying with Capistrano, testing a Rails application, and using Prototype and Scriptaculous. The application developed in the walk-through chapters is a Web 2.0 a...Jan. 16, 2008 04:45 PM EST Reads: 5,701 Replies: 1 |
 ELC Technologies and FiveRuns have formed a strategic partnership to provide business-critical, enterprise-class Ruby on Rails applications for global companies. Working together, ELC and FiveRuns will enable organizations to develop robust enterprise applications, monitor application ...Dec. 25, 2007 05:30 PM EST Reads: 6,767 |
FiveRuns and Brightbox announced a strategic partnership to provide an exclusive, bundled offering including FiveRuns RM-Manage Rails application monitoring software with Brightbox?s virtualized server solutions for Rails applications. Dec. 19, 2007 12:00 PM EST Reads: 4,056 |
 For building applications, BundleWorks includes ant tasks and command line tools to allow developers to build standard bundles for both custom and third-party applications. For testing, BundleWorks allows a developer to create and manage multiple environments to test multiple versions ...Dec. 5, 2007 01:30 PM EST Reads: 29,579 Replies: 1 |
The three-year-old Dojo Foundation has put out version 1.0 of Dojo, an open source JavaScript toolkit for AJAX development meant for building rich Web 2.0 applications without proprietary plug-ins or single-vendor solutions. The widgetry makes use of Google Gears, Google's solution for... Nov. 9, 2007 02:45 PM EST Reads: 34,613 Replies: 1 |
Egenera, which claims it's the archetype Virtualization 2.0 company to VMware's Virtualization 1.0 - and is going put its PAN Manager software on other people's hardware to prove it - has convinced Fujitsu Siemens, which OEMs Egenera's BladeFrame servers, to put PAN on its own industry... Nov. 9, 2007 12:30 PM EST Reads: 21,798 Replies: 1 |
Microsoft has sent out pre-alpha code of IronRuby, its version of the Ruby language that will let developers write .NET programs in, well, Ruby and suggestively IE and the Safari browser programs using the soon-to-be Adobe Flash-like Silverlight 1.1. IronRuby will go to the RubyForge r... Jul. 28, 2007 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 10,961 Replies: 1 |
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