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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/19

It was announced this morning that closures would be added to JDK 7.  Mark Reinhold made the announcement at the Devoxx conference.  Before today, Sun could...

0 replies - 1986 views - 11/18/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/5

The EU could issue a formal objection to the Oracle-Sun deal within the next few days according to a Financial Times report.  Just a few weeks ago, the EU's...

1 replies - 2678 views - 11/05/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

NetBeans 6.8 Beta Coming; Does Oracle Care?

NetBeans 6.8 just crossed milestone 2 and the beta is set to release next Thursday.  Geertjan Wielenga, a NetBeans technical writer and DZone Leader, has been...

12 replies - 7235 views - 10/14/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

MacRuby 0.5 Pulls the Plug on YARV

Sweeping changes to the 0.4 version of MacRuby are now ready for public testing in the first beta of MacRuby 0.5.  Most notably, the new MacRuby has removed...

0 replies - 703 views - 10/12/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Introducing the Strange Loop Conference - Oct 22 - 23, St Louis

DZone sat down with Alex Miller to talk about his upcoming conference Strange Loop.  The Strange Loop conference was started by Alex to bring developers...

0 replies - 2346 views - 08/20/09 by CodeJustin in Uncategorized

Justin.TV Ruby and Python Video API is Now Available

Justin.tv has just released an API for their live video streaming.  Both Ruby and Python libraries are currently available.  The API, which has been in...

0 replies - 1255 views - 07/30/09 by CodeJustin in News

Engine Yard Adopts Sun JRuby Developers

Three of the key JRuby developers, who Sun previous hired to work on the full JRuby implementation have just left to join Engine Yard. Engine Yard are...

0 replies - 2575 views - 07/28/09 by James Sugrue in News

RubyMine 1.0 Released - New Ruby and Rails IDE

JetBrains today uveiled RubyMine 1.0, the company's new integrated development environment (IDE) for Ruby and Rails development. RubyMine 1.0 includes advanced...

1 replies - 3259 views - 04/28/09 by Nitin Bharti in Announcements

Screencast: JBoss Rails and JBoss in the Cloud

In this presentation, recorded at the JBoss Virtual Experience 2009, Bob McWhirther explores running a Rails application on JBoss AS 5 and delves into the...

0 replies - 4487 views - 04/06/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

Ruby - Crafting An Object - The Behavior Of A Ticket

A ticket is a familiar object, with a known set of properties and behaviors. Let’s take a high-level view at what we expect a ticket-like Ruby object to do...

2 replies - 2802 views - 01/28/09 by Schalk Neethling in News

2009 Predictions, 2008 Predictions Revisited

It's once again that time of year, and in keeping with my tradition, I'll revisit the 2008 predictions to see how close I came before I start waxing prophetic...

7 replies - 9325 views - 01/02/09 by Ted Neward in Articles

Simplistic Texteditor For Your Next Ruby On Rails Webapplication

Do you want to come to the metaparty? Okay it is not a party tool it is a political site in German where the party member itself create the party platform....

0 replies - 3654 views - 12/19/08 by Peter Karich in News

Classes As Objects And Message-Receivers

Classes are special objects: they’re the only kind of object that has the power to spawn new objects (instances). Nonetheless, they’re objects. When you...

0 replies - 4294 views - 12/18/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Targeted Languages

The vast majority of actively evolving business software is written in Java these days. Java has long enjoyed the title of One Language to Rule Them All....

6 replies - 3794 views - 12/17/08 by Jay Fields in Articles

Naming Of Anonymous, First Class Code Segments

One of the things I’m starting to notice when working on Ioke isthat current programming languages doesn’t seem to have enough namesfor first class code...

0 replies - 1226 views - 11/26/08 by olabini in News