http://ruby.sys-con.com/ Latest articles from Feature Copyright 2008 RUBY-ON-RAILS Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:03:00 GMT RUBY-ON-RAILS 10 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://ruby.sys-con.com/read/596784.htmhttp://ruby.sys-con.com/read/596784.htm Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:00:00 GMT 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 has led to a fertile field of tools for Java developers to choose from. http://ruby.sys-con.com/read/536976.htmhttp://ruby.sys-con.com/read/536976.htm Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:15:00 GMT 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 like a piano, used by one hand. The problem was, Engelbart's five-finger keyboard and mouse combination was very difficult to learn. http://ruby.sys-con.com/read/458183.htmhttp://ruby.sys-con.com/read/458183.htm Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:30:00 GMT Many articles have already been written about service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Service Component Architecture (SCA), for example, see references [1] and [2]. In this article we'll focus on a freely available, open source implementation of the Service Component Architecture that provides a simple way to implement SOA solutions. This SCA implementation is being developed in the Apache Tuscany Incubator project. The project started in 2006 and is being used by many who are looking for a simple SOA infrastructure. The recent Tuscany SCA version 1.0, which was released in September 2007, supports the Service Component Architecture specifications 1.0.