http://www.itworld.com/taxonomy/term/612/all xx http://www.itworld.com/development/78298/ruby-dsls-and-free-lunch-was-not-so-free The world of IT is embarking, I suspect, on a another period of language creation hype. This time, the hype epicenter is Ruby and the facilities it provides to create custom languages. http://www.itworld.com/development/78298/ruby-dsls-and-free-lunch-was-not-so-free#comments Development Opinion domain specific language dsl Ruby Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:42:37 -0400 Sean McGrath 78298 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/development/77686/ruby-apps-development-readied-android Builders of the JRuby version of the Ruby programming language are working to enable development of Ruby-based business applications for the Android handheld platform. http://www.itworld.com/development/77686/ruby-apps-development-readied-android#comments Development Open Source News Android JRuby Ruby Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:06:49 -0400 ITworld staff 77686 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/development/69717/ruby-use-grows-developer-survey According to an Evans Data survey, use of Ruby has jumped 40 percent since last year. http://www.itworld.com/development/69717/ruby-use-grows-developer-survey#comments Development News Ruby Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:24:21 -0400 ITworld staff 69717 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/development/68269/older-ruby-line-gets-new-maintainer Engine Yard, which has offered services for the Ruby language and Ruby on Rails, has taken over maintenance responsibilities for an older release of the language. http://www.itworld.com/development/68269/older-ruby-line-gets-new-maintainer#comments Development News engine yard Ruby Ruby on Rails Thu, 21 May 2009 21:10:59 -0400 ITworld staff 68269 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/development/67596/ruby-developers-urged-use-test-driven-development For the Ruby language to avoid the same ill fate as Smalltalk, developers must use test-driven development to keep code clean, an industry executive stressed Wednesday evening at the RailsConf 2009 event in Las Vegas. http://www.itworld.com/development/67596/ruby-developers-urged-use-test-driven-development#comments Development Opinion RailsConf 2009 Ruby Thu, 07 May 2009 14:09:56 -0400 ITworld staff 67596 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/development/67532/jruby-live-after-sun-oracle-merger-engineer-says JRuby, a Sun Microsystems-driven implementation of the Ruby language for the Java Virtual Machine, is being used in a range of applications including one to battle infectious diseases. But like other Sun technologies, it remains to be seen how Oracle, which plans to buy Sun, will deal with it. http://www.itworld.com/development/67532/jruby-live-after-sun-oracle-merger-engineer-says#comments Development News JRuby Oracle RailsConf 2009 Ruby Sun Wed, 06 May 2009 12:07:40 -0400 ITworld staff 67532 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/personal-tech/67392/true-believers-biggest-cults-tech Spend enough time around technology and it becomes a part of you. You began to identify with it, even develop a belief system around it. You may have attended regular meetings of others similarly afflicted, and openly despised members of other groups. Before you were even aware of it, you'd joined a cult. http://www.itworld.com/personal-tech/67392/true-believers-biggest-cults-tech#comments Development Open Source Personal tech Feature Linux Palm Ruby Ubuntu Mon, 04 May 2009 13:37:56 -0400 ITworld staff 67392 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/development/67100/jetbrains-readies-rails-ide JetBrains, maker of the IntelliJ Idea Java IDE, now is shipping an IDE for Ruby and Ruby on Rails application development featuring familiarity with Rails conventions, the company said. http://www.itworld.com/development/67100/jetbrains-readies-rails-ide#comments Development News java JetBrains Ruby Ruby on Rails Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:21:24 -0400 ITworld staff 67100 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/development/66924/heroku-hosts-ruby-apps-battles-google Heroku will debut on Friday its cloud service for Ruby applications, competing with Google and offering provisionless Web hosting. http://www.itworld.com/development/66924/heroku-hosts-ruby-apps-battles-google#comments Development Open Source SaaS News Amazon cloud computing Heroku Ruby Web Applications Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:06:18 -0400 ITworld staff 66924 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/development/61380/dynamic-languages-not-just-scripting-any-more Because of their potential for high productivity, scripting languages have come to occupy a greater and greater part of the programming landscape, including systems programming and commercial, installable, "shrink-wrapped" products. http://www.itworld.com/development/61380/dynamic-languages-not-just-scripting-any-more#comments Development Feature Perl python Ruby tcl Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:18:11 -0500 ITworld staff 61380 at http://www.itworld.com