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Mitch Pronschinske02/08/10
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Ruby in Steel 1.5 Leaves 'Iron' Age Behind

The newest version of Ruby in Steel, a Microsoft Visual Studio-based IDE for Ruby on Rails, is now available from SapphireSteel Software. The new 1.5 developer version supports integrated edit-and-run capabilities for Ruby 1.8.x, Ruby 1.9.x, and JRuby...

Mitch Pronschinske01/22/10
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Spiceworks is Becoming a Force in the IT Community

Network management, monitoring, help desk, software reporting, and PC inventory for small and medium sized businesses - all of this for free? Believe it. Spiceworks is taking IT departments by storm. Its IT community of 850,000 strong in 196 countries...

Mitch Pronschinske01/20/10
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Bespin Revamp is Thriving

The Bespin project at Mozilla Labs was unveiled in February 2009 by Ben Galbraith and Dion Almear. The two creators of the project left for Palm in September of that year and that's when Mozilla decided to give the project a reboot. Bespin is a "Code...

Mitch Pronschinske01/13/10
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GoGrid Adds the Power of New Relic's RPM

New Relic recently announced RPM (Rails Performance Management) support for the GoGrid Cloud Hosting Infrastructure. GoGrid customers will now be able to harness the awesome power of RPM's Java, Ruby, and JRuby application monitoring and management. RPM...

Mitch Pronschinske01/11/10
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Popular Languages of 2009

The TIOBE index for 2009 says that Google's new Go programming language experienced more growth in popularity than any other language in 2009. The growth is quite remarkable given that the language became available late in the year. Is it all just hype? ...

Mitch Pronschinske01/05/10
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10 Hot Tips for JRuby

Vladimir Sizikov graciously contributed these ten coding tips for JRuby, the JVM implementation of Ruby, to the DZone community. Sizikov is a core contributor for the JRuby project. He is a software engineer at Sun Microsystems, with more then 9 years of...

Tinu Awopetu12/18/09
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NetBeans Podcast #52: NetBeans IDE 6.8 Debuts!

It's been a busy month for the NetBeans team, and consequently, the last NetBeans Podcast of 2009 is packed full of news: NetBeans IDE 6.8 debuts with support for Java EE 6 and GlassFish v3!The NetBeans Platform returns to the spotlight.

Mitch Pronschinske12/14/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/12/15

Sun Microsystems' stock value shot up today after months of decline. The reason behind the 10% jump was a statement of commitments recently posted by Oracle. In a nutshell, the statement says that Oracle will maintain MySQL and keep its APIs public upon...

Matt Stine12/14/09
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Author Interview: Dave Klein on Grails: A Quick Start Guide

I recently had the opportunity to interview Dave Klein, the author of DZone's Getting Started with Grails Refcard and Grails: A Quick-Start Guide for the Pragmatic Programmers, affectionately known in Twitter circles as "GQuick." You may have...

Mitch Pronschinske12/14/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/12/14

Leaders on both sides of the Oracle-Sun deal have been recruiting people to send email petitions to the EU. Just before the hearings this weekend, Oracle persuaded its customers, including Vodafone, the Spanish Bank BBVA, and the National Health Service, to...

Mitch Pronschinske12/12/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/12/12

Yesterday, EC chair Neelie Kroes was optimistic that Oracle and the EU could come to an agreement. Today, Oracle attacked the EU, saying that they have only focused on a few arguments against the Sun merger, ignoring the majority of customers, such as GE,...

Mitch Pronschinske12/10/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/12/11

At Washington University, they have a class that teaches students how to write iPhone apps. Each student got an iPod touch at the beginning of the semester and designed apps in teams. The apps created by students could track items in a fridge, teach you...

Mitch Pronschinske12/10/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/12/10

The Eclipse Marketplace has officially replaced Eclipse Plugin Central (EPIC). The new site went live less than 24 hours ago and features custom lists where users can keep track of their favorite plugins.

Mitch Pronschinske12/09/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/12/9

The Mac and Linux versions of the Chrome browser were finally released yesterday after the Chrome team said it had fixed the last bugs on Friday.

Mitch Pronschinske12/08/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/12/8

Good news for website owners and publishers! More features were added recently to the free Google Analytics software. Users can now put annotations on data points to elaborate on spikes or drops in traffic. Custom variables can now be seen across all...