PHP and Flash Integration

Learn how to create real-time collaborative apps with PHP and LiveCycle Collaboration Services.

A Decade of Open Source

DZone chats with Justin Erenkrantz to reflect on the last ten years at Apache and the foundation's continued success. 

The Rise and Fall of Dynamic Languages

In this interview, Ruby programmer and consultant Rick DeNatale provides his perspective on the fall and rise of dynamic languages, including Smalltalk and...

4 replies - 5759 views - 02/25/09 by Jared Richardson in Videos

Refcardz Topics: What Should We Cover? (Vote Now)

DZone needs your help!  We have a lot of Refcard topics on our plate and want to know how to prioritize the topic...

39 replies - 24625 views - 02/16/09 by WeiLing in Uncategorized

Ruby and Your Brain

In this video, presented at the December 2008 Kyushu Ruby Kaigi in Fukuoka, Japan, Andy Hunt talks about his new book, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning, the...

1 replies - 6940 views - 02/13/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

Q&A - Nathaniel Talbott on Ruby and the Well-Rounded Programmer

In this exclusive interview, Agile Coach Jared Richardson talks to Ruby veteran Nathaniel Talbott about his current projects, the Ruby community, and more. ...

0 replies - 1423 views - 02/02/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

Navigation Inside RubyMine

What do you imagine first when you think of a mine? Probably a hole going under ground where everything is pitch-dark and it's difficult to find your way...

0 replies - 2795 views - 01/29/09 by Eugene Toporov in Articles

Odd Theses - A Look Inside JBoss Rails & Cloud with Bob McWhirter

Developers today not only have a plethora of languages to choose from, but also a vast array of virtual computing platforms on which to deploy these...

3 replies - 8318 views - 01/28/09 by Nitin Bharti in Articles

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 - 2829 views - 01/28/09 by Schalk Neethling in News

Code Refactoring - Freaking Awesome

We have all gone back and looked at code we wrote in the past and thought "Wow, this is ugly.", or "wtf was I thinking?", or even...

12 replies - 12043 views - 01/16/09 by Mike Bernat in News

Interview: Switching from Java to Ruby

When eSpace moved from mobile salesforce automation to web development, their confrontation with enterprise scalability had just begun. Their unique solution,...

22 replies - 6980 views - 01/15/09 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

Open Source : How Do You Stay Up To Date?

I Love the concepts and beliefs behind Open Source. I use Open Source libraries, applications etc. all the time. One of the things I have always found a...

18 replies - 11181 views - 01/10/09 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 - 9370 views - 01/02/09 by Ted Neward in Articles

Best Rails IDE? What do you think?

I thought I would post a quick question here on the Web Builder Zone to get some input from the community. I was wondering, what would you consider to be the...

10 replies - 3910 views - 12/20/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

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 - 3690 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 - 4323 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 - 3807 views - 12/17/08 by Jay Fields in Articles