http://ruby.sys-con.com/ Latest articles from Ruby-on-Rails News Desk Copyright 2008 RUBY-ON-RAILS Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:59:00 GMT RUBY-ON-RAILS 10 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://ruby.sys-con.com/read/463824.htmhttp://ruby.sys-con.com/read/463824.htm Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:15:00 GMT 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 computing, Web Services, virtualization and utility computing. IBM calls its initiative Blue Cloud - like it could have another name - and claims it's a 'game-changing model for Internet-scale computing,' providing customer with just the right size computer power while at one and the same time being 'green' as well as 'self-healing and self-managing' based on open standards and Linux. Lordy, if this thing was a cute guy with money, it would be every mother's dream. http://ruby.sys-con.com/read/587865.htmhttp://ruby.sys-con.com/read/587865.htm Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:00:00 GMT Two of the biggest launches in Rich Internet Application history took place in 2007/2008 when Adobe launched AIR 1.0 in February '08 and Microsoft launched Silverlight (September '07). At the 6th International AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo in October SYS-CON Events is delighted to be presenting major industry keynotes from the two industry executives with overall responsibility for both of those massive richer-web initiatives: Adobe's CTO Kevin Lynch and Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft's .NET Developer Platform. http://ruby.sys-con.com/read/460503.htmhttp://ruby.sys-con.com/read/460503.htm Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:45:00 GMT Brian Stevens, the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering of Red Hat, delivered his Virtualization Keynote 'The Future of the Virtual Enterprise' at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo 2007 West in San Francisco. 'Virtualization is the hottest subject today,' said Stevens, an industry luminary, who is credited with having pioneered new technologies that contributed to the rise of Linux as an industry-standard operating platform. http://ruby.sys-con.com/read/610624.htmhttp://ruby.sys-con.com/read/610624.htm Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:30:00 GMT 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 NEA, joins Engine Yard's board of directors. 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/544193.htmhttp://ruby.sys-con.com/read/544193.htm Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:30:00 GMT 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 Manhattan. http://ruby.sys-con.com/read/575396.htmhttp://ruby.sys-con.com/read/575396.htm Sun, 25 May 2008 12:45:00 GMT Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens, Citrix CTO Simon Crosby, Egenera CTO Pete Manca, Allen Stewart, Group Manager, Windows Virtualization at Microsoft, and Brian Duckering, Sr. Director of Products and Alliances at Symantec were the top industry executives who joined Jeremy Geelan in the 4th Floor Reuters Studio overlooking Times Square for a special SYS-CON.TV 'Virtualization Power Panel' recorded on June 22, 2008, the day before the opening of SYS-CON's 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo - which was held 23-24 June 2008 in New York City. http://ruby.sys-con.com/read/495964.htmhttp://ruby.sys-con.com/read/495964.htm Mon, 19 May 2008 06:15:00 GMT Ulitzer, Inc., which initially made the headlines with its 'job descriptions from the future,' announced today that it will launch its Ulitzer 'beta' site on July 4, 2008, with 5,500 authors and 600,000 original articles, published in more than 5,000 topic-specific online journals. Each journal offers up to 14 content-specific sections, written by the world's most respected authors, who are experts in their particular fields. All Ulitzer authors will get paid for their contributions. 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/518647.htmhttp://ruby.sys-con.com/read/518647.htm Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT 'Unlocking content to be remixed into new business value' is the driver of Web 2.0 in the enterprise, says Rod Smith, IBM VP of Emerging Internet Technologies, in this Exclusive Q&A with Jeremy Geelan on the occasion of IBM's release of a new technology created by IBM researchers, codenamed 'SMash' - short for Secure Mashup. http://ruby.sys-con.com/read/457324.htmhttp://ruby.sys-con.com/read/457324.htm Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:30:00 GMT Here is a question that I have been pondering on and off for quite a while: Why do 'cool kids' choose Ruby or PHP to build websites instead of Java? I have to admit that I do not have an answer. Why do I even care? Because I am a Java developer. Like many Java developers, I get along with Java well. Not only the language itself, but the development environments (Eclipse for example), step-by-step debugging helper, wide availability of libraries and code snippets, and the readily accessible information on almost any technical question I may have on Java via Google. Last but not least, I go to JavaOne and see 10,000 people that talk and walk just like me. http://ruby.sys-con.com/read/519876.htmhttp://ruby.sys-con.com/read/519876.htm Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:45:00 GMT This session will provide attendees with an overview of the iPhone SDK, including discussion of the App Store, Apple's planned distribution channel for SDK applications. Keep in mind that the contents of the SDK and experiences while using it are covered under NDA, so be prepared for me to talk in generics and leave out specific details that might be covered by the NDA. I am planning on providing a quick introduction to Objective-C for those attendees who may have never seen it and might be worried that it will be difficult to code in (it isn't!). http://ruby.sys-con.com/read/516151.htmhttp://ruby.sys-con.com/read/516151.htm Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:30:00 GMT For the past ten years application developers have been stuck with only two desktop client choices. Traditionally, they can choose either a very thin Web-client technology implemented in HTML and CSS, or a very heavyweight thick client experience implemented using traditional client/server (C/S) technologies (e.g. Java Swing, MFC). It wasn't until the introduction of RIA technologies (e.g. AJAX, Adobe Flex, Curl, and Silverlight) and widget engines (e.g. Yahoo! Widgets and Google Gadgets) that we were given more options. http://ruby.sys-con.com/read/514506.htmhttp://ruby.sys-con.com/read/514506.htm Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:00:00 GMT Acquia has yet to price its maintenance and support subscriptions - there should be a variety of SLAs - but they're supposed to include an electronic update notification system code named Spokes for updates that have been reviewed for security and compatibility and are supported by Acquia. Acquia is currently at 12 people, expecting to be 25 by the end of the year. Its Series A money comes from Northbridge Venture Partners, Sigma Partners and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. According to Dries' blog, Drupal 7 should offer the ability to create, share and mashup managed content, letting Drupal be a data repository accessed by tools and web sites across the network. http://ruby.sys-con.com/read/505232.htmhttp://ruby.sys-con.com/read/505232.htm Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:00:00 GMT 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 further confrontation with the European Commission, which opened a broad investigation of Microsoft's interoperability last month, the company said it would voluntarily open up all the APIs and communications protocols in its biggest revenue producers now and forever. To be clear, it said that these are the APIs and protocols 'used by other Microsoft products.' http://ruby.sys-con.com/read/463309.htmhttp://ruby.sys-con.com/read/463309.htm Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:15:00 GMT Key opinion-formers in the field of infrastructure and pioneers of virtualization technologies of all types have already begun submitting speaking proposals to Virtualization Conference & Expo 2008 East, being held in New York City, 23-24 June, 2008. Topics covered will range from Server Virtualization, Application Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Network Virtualization, I/O Virtualization and Storage Virtualization, to Virtual Machine Automation, Physical to Virtual (P2V) Migration, Management Applications, Tools and Utilities, and Virtualization Scripts and Procedures. http://ruby.sys-con.com/read/495040.htmhttp://ruby.sys-con.com/read/495040.htm Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:45:00 GMT 'It is very important to me that Acquia has a marketing leader who understands the importance of growing and sustaining a community and who is passionate about the principles of open source software,' said Acquia co-founder and CTO Dries Buytaert as Jeff Whatcott joined the company as vice president of marketing, responsible for all marketing activity. Whatcott arrived from Adobe, where he led marketing for LiveCycle and Flex. http://ruby.sys-con.com/read/503097.htmhttp://ruby.sys-con.com/read/503097.htm Sun, 03 Feb 2008 08:15:00 GMT Sun is offering ten grants of US $11,500 - equivalent to several months of pay for developers in some countries - for the best NetBeans projects submitted by open source developers. Conceived as a means of increasing general awareness around the NetBeans project as well as rewarding good work done by the NetBeans Community, the 'Dreams of Reality' contest is described in detail by worldwide NetBeans Community Manager Bruno Souza, the charismatic Brazilian developer, in a special audio webcast currently playing on SYS-CON.TV. http://ruby.sys-con.com/read/494324.htmhttp://ruby.sys-con.com/read/494324.htm Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:30:00 GMT Google, which does not give guidance, missed both Wall Street's top and bottom expectations for its December quarter by a hair and the punters turned vicious pounding it down around 50 bucks after-hours. Consensus demanded non-GAAP earnings of $4.44 on revenues of $3.45 billion. Google came in with $4.43 on revenues $3.39 billion. Those revenues figures are net of what's called TAC, Google's traffic acquisition costs, the money it pays its partners, which it this case amounted $1.44 billion or 30% of its ad revenues. http://ruby.sys-con.com/read/490506.htmhttp://ruby.sys-con.com/read/490506.htm Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:00:00 GMT 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 how Ruby on Rails integrates the Prototype and Script.aculo.us JavaScript libraries, Show how Rails developers write Ruby code which generates JavaScript on the fly and reveal how Ruby encourages best practices by degrading gracefully when a browser has JavaScript disabled. http://ruby.sys-con.com/read/486756.htmhttp://ruby.sys-con.com/read/486756.htm Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:45:00 GMT 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 application that can be used by a group of users to share information about a collection of books. It will include implementation of features such as content tagging, reviews, and ratings. http://ruby.sys-con.com/read/480010.htmhttp://ruby.sys-con.com/read/480010.htm Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:30:00 GMT Google's new-year special logo, which went live briefly as 2008 began, celebrated the 25th anniversary of TCP/IP - adopted by Arpanet on January 1st, 1983. While 'invisible' to most users, many of the layers built on top of TCP/IP are well-known even to laymen: HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol), FTP (the File Transfer Protocol), SMTP and POP3, and IRC. http://ruby.sys-con.com/read/474287.htmhttp://ruby.sys-con.com/read/474287.htm Tue, 25 Dec 2007 17:30:00 GMT 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 performance, and help IT executives manage and integrate open source Rails resources. http://ruby.sys-con.com/read/477692.htmhttp://ruby.sys-con.com/read/477692.htm Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:00:00 GMT 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. http://ruby.sys-con.com/read/471968.htmhttp://ruby.sys-con.com/read/471968.htm Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:45:00 GMT In keeping with the longstanding SYS-CON tradition of being at the very forefront of software development with all its online and offline resources, SYS-CON Media & Events jointly today announced a double whammy, launching both 'Open Web Developer's Journal' (http://openweb.sys-con.com) and 'Open Web Developer Summit' (http://openweb.sys-con.com) - to be held for the first time in New York City April 21-22, 2008. http://ruby.sys-con.com/read/470245.htmhttp://ruby.sys-con.com/read/470245.htm Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:30:00 GMT 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 of applications. For deployment, BundleWorks supports local and remote deployment and provides a library of functions to handle common deployment tasks. For maintentance, BundleWorks tracks all bundle actions and configuration changes providing a complete history of activity. http://ruby.sys-con.com/read/463023.htmhttp://ruby.sys-con.com/read/463023.htm Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:00:00 GMT I asked what she did for a living. She said she was a software engineer working with SOA. I did not think about my plane ride much until I arrived in San Francisco to attend the SOA World Conference & Expo this past Monday and Tuesday. The first day of the conference as I walked into the hotel, guess who I saw? My friend who I met on the Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul. What a small world, isn't it? Her company was one of the sponsors of the event. http://ruby.sys-con.com/read/458660.htmhttp://ruby.sys-con.com/read/458660.htm Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:45:00 GMT 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 making applications work both on- and offline. What Dojo calls Dojo Offline is based on it. The toolkit is all of 25K in size and supports progressive enhancement and animations and is supposed to open the door to a wealth of high-quality widgets and extension modules. Dojo also supports the Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer and Opera browsers and the OpenAjax Alliance Hub 1.0 to guarantee interoperability with other toolkits IBM, Sun, BEA and AOL are Dojo backers. http://ruby.sys-con.com/read/458747.htmhttp://ruby.sys-con.com/read/458747.htm Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:30:00 GMT 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-standard Primergy servers. It's Egenera's first PAN partnership since the American company said last week that it was setting up a software line of business around PAN and would move the software out through fellow OEMs. Fujitsu Siemens says the widgetry will form part of its FlexFrame Infrastructure, its latest milestone in its Dynamic Data Center strategy of creating business-responsive IT using the latest virtualization and automation technologies. http://ruby.sys-con.com/read/408454.htmhttp://ruby.sys-con.com/read/408454.htm Sat, 28 Jul 2007 08:45:00 GMT 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 repository late next month under Microsoft's Permissive License so developers can tinker with the IronRuby code. When it hits RubyForge anybody will be able to contribute to the code though initially any contributions are limited to the libraries. IronRuby will eventually be integrated with Visual Studio.