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Ruby on Rails rolls into the enterprise

The New York Times used Ruby on Rails to pull together, analyze and display election results in near real time on one of its busiest Web traffic days ever. How did nytimes.com scale up Rails -- a framework known for quick development turnaround but less than lightning fast performance?

15 amazing Web apps built in 48 hours

15 amazing Web apps built in 48 hours Earlier this month, the Rails Rumble 2008 announced the eight winners of its programming competition where teams of up to four people had 48 hours to build original (and somewhat complete) Web apps. Ruby on Rails is perhaps best known as the app development platform that built Twitter. But competitions like the Rumble prove how powerful the young platform can be. Here, we showcase the competition winners along with other cool apps of enterprise appeal from the 130 qualifying entries. Winners were selected by an open vote on the Internet and were judged on appearance, completeness, innovation and usefulness. First prize: MeetInBetween.us With a cutline of "I'm not driving all the way out there!" this application is all about finding middle ground.

Watson rails against selection policy

Cricket – Why was he in the pub in the first place?

Ruby on Rails upgrade released

Popular Web framework gets improved support for HTTP validators as well as an internalization framework

Art tour goes on the rails

Now, for those who are curious about the artworks in the train stations on the North East Line, there is an art tour.

Is Yahoo, Google Ad Deal Sliding Off the Rails?

Yahoo and Google have been in talks with the Department of Justice over antitrust concerns and reportedly reached an impasse. Despite the rumors, though, both Yahoo and Google insist the negotiations will continue, and that reports of the deal's death are greatly exaggerated.

Is Yahoo, Google Ad Deal Sliding Off the Rails?

Yahoo and Google have been in talks with the Department of Justice over antitrust concerns and reportedly reached an impasse. Despite the rumors, though, both Yahoo and Google insist the negotiations will continue, and that reports of the deal's death are greatly exaggerated.

Sun receives complaint about Java vetting process (InfoWorld)

Ruby on Rails upgrade released Sun, Microsoft boost IDEs Nokia offers vision for services, applications You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz

Hauritz wins Test recall

Horses for courses: Watson rails against selection policy

Amazon shares public data

Amazon shares public data IBM dominates green supercomputer list Ruby on Rails project goes local Microsoft copied us: AVG Europe’s culture web site crashes after launch Opinion: Why SMBs cannot afford to ignore BPM Human understanding drives speech recognition research Software AG mulls potential services buys Helium-ion tech measures 'close' to diameter of atom INQ encounters Paypal 'reversal' scam Microsoft makes a phone with Nvidia Google lets users personalise results Apple releases iPhone update IBM plans to develop super brainy computer Opinion: Clouds darken outlook for Vista's successor

Ioke Tries to Combine the Best of Lisp and Ruby

synodinos writes "Ola Bini, a core JRuby developer and author of the book Practical JRuby on Rails Projects, has been developing a new language for the JVM called Ioke. This strongly typed, extremely dynamic, prototype-based, object-oriented language aims to give developers the same kind of power they get with Lisp and Ruby, combined with a nice, small, regular syntax."

SpringSource Acquires Second Open Source Company

G2One is the supplier of Groovy and Grails, a Java-like scripting language for the Java Virtual Machine based on concepts found in the popular Ruby on Rails.


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