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Arun Gupta is a Technology Evangelist for Web Services and Web 2.0 Apps at Sun. He was the spec lead for APIs in the Java platform, committer in multiple Open Source projects, participated in standard bodies ...

Ever wonder how some Ruby class or method is implemented only to discover that the thing is actually part of the built in classes that come with your Ruby environment? Well don't let that stop you! It turns out ...

I'm in Berlin attending RailsConf Europe 2008 . Today was the first day of the conference proper, following an optional day of tutorials yesterday.

Sep 2, 2008 was the Tutorials Day @ Rails Conf Europe . I attended Renegade's Guide to Hacking Rails Internals and Deploying and Monitoring Ruby on Rails .

By Chris Kanaracus Social-networking site provider Socialcast announced a "self-service" pricing model on Tuesday that allows smaller customers to get up and running without the need for a formal sales process.

RubyGems now allows you to set the path to where your gems are installed using a System Wide Config File: /etc/gemrc. This is really useful to those packaging RubyGems for different operating systems as it ...

Intridea, Inc., the agile enterprise Web 2.0 company, will lead two sessions at RailsConf Europe 2008: a Rails development tutorial, "The Renegade's Guide to Hacking Rails Internals," and a general session, ...

PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, Perl, Python, and Tcl Today: The State of the Scripting Universe Three years ago, Lynn Greiner interviewed the big cheeses responsible for the popular scripting languages PHP, Perl, Tcl, ...

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Following our earlier work and commitment we are pleased to announce the availability of the new AMIs which packages Ruby On Rails and related component.

RailsConf Europe is taking place next week in Berlin and we'll be present there too.

The NetBeans community recently released the beta version of the latest incarnation of its persistently popular open source IDE.

Much awaited and now available, v0.1 of "Scripting in a Box" is now on SDN for download and not a moment to soon ! The newest release is packed full of more components, more examples and of course Ruby and Ruby ...

Using semantic web technologies such as RDF/RDFS and the SPARQL query language to integrate and use data from disparate sources has some advantages over using a standard relational database.

My mission tonight - make Ruby SFTP file transfer work. [1] #!/opt/local/bin/ruby require 'rubygems' require 'net/sftp' Net::SFTP.start do sftp sftp.upload! end 52 kb of data - copied like that : admirably ...

We just put up a Rails2 image running OpenSolaris on EC2. This is the real deal, Rails2, Ruby with DTrace support, Thin, Git, Mongrel, Mongrel cluster, sample SMF scripts and configured for a sample Rails ...

I really enjoyed Akademy this year, and blagging a Nokia N810 right on the day of my birthday was one of the highlights of a great week.

Ruby on Rails in the cloud got another leg up this week with the announcement that Morph Labs and FiveRuns have joined forces to provide a managed hosting platform for application testing and monitoring.

Back in March I met with Todd Barr formerly of Red Hat and at that time starting his new position at the Austin-based Ruby/Ruby on Rails-based venture called FiveRuns.

Foo camp attendee Ben Black alerted me to Adhearsion , a framework for developing applications in the VoIP space.