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Recent articles about Java, Ruby, etc…

I have been travelling to Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and Washington DC for the past four weeks.  While catching up on some of my article and blog reading backlog, a couple of articles caught my eye.

Why Isn’t Facebook Built in Java?  Why do ‘cool kids’ choose Ruby or PHP to build websites instead of Java?
Java Remains […]

Joe McGlynn’s top ten reasons to love Ruby on Rails

Joe McGlynn, Director of Product Management at CodeGear responsible 3rdRail RoR IDE, JBuilder Java development tools, and C++Builder product line, shares his "top ten reasons to love Ruby on Rails".  The article appears on Doctor Dobbs’ (DDJ) open source portal.
Joe’s blog is at blogs.codegear.com/joemcglynn/
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MVC (Model View Controller) - thank you Trygve M. H. Reenskaug

The Rails framework and Rails applications are great examples of the use of the Model View Controller (MVC) architecture.  MVC was first created by Trygve Mikkjel Heyerdahl Reenskaug, a Norwegian computer scientist.  Reenskaug created the first MVC implementation and  document as a visiting scientist at Xerox PARC between the summer of 1978 and summer of […]

Some articles in the Japanese press from our trip here in Tokyo…

Shelby Sanders (CodeGear Ruby IDE architect) and I are in Tokyo talking with the press, customers, partners, and developer community leaders about CodeGear, our strategy, our products and especially the recently announced C++Builder 2007 and Ruby IDE.  The following are the first three links to news articles that have appeared after our meetings and today’s CodeGear […]

Yukihiro Matsumoto, chief designer of the Ruby Language, will present at the CodeGear Code Camp, June 5th, Tokyo Japan

The chief designer of the Ruby programming language, Yukihiro Matsumoto “Matz“, is scheduled to present at the 5th CodeGear Code Camp.  The Code Camp will take place on June 5, 2007 at the Cerulian Tower Tokyu Hotel in Tokyo Japan. Matsumoto-san will join David I and Shelby Sanders (CodeGear R&D) during the general session talk titled “Preview of the CodeGear Ruby Environment […]

Ruby on Rails Handbook…

I found this site through my personalbee developer feed.  Ruby on Rails Handbook by Alex V. Dmitriev. The web site contains links to loads of documents, tutorials, videos, demos, cheat sheets, code snippets, blogs, development tools, and more. Check it out!
Hi from Frankfurt Germany.  Next stop Mexico City on Monday.
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The Ruby programming language is declared TIOBE’s language of 2006

From the TIOBE.com programming community index web page at http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm
"We are glad to announce that Ruby has become "Programming Language of the Year 2006". Ruby has the highest popularity increase in a year of all programming languages (+2.15%)."
Ruby programming language links:
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
http://www.rubyonrails.org/
http://www.rubycentral.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_programming_language
http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/
http://rubyforge.org/
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