I know JavaOne's over now but there's one talk that I attended that I haven't yet got around to commenting on. It was entitled 'Exploiting JRuby: Building Domain-Specific Languages for the Java Virtual Machine' by Rob Harrop of Interface21. If you need some background on...
I dragged myself away from Mini Kiss and Robot Fighting at the 'After Dark' bash on Thursday evening (seriously, this was geek entertainment to the max) to head to a session title JRubMe. OK, it was a typo and it was actually JRubyME. ...
Ben and I attended a session on the state of Ruby Tooling. Again, since this was a presentation from Sun employees, they admitted up front that it was really a NetBeans presentation. Still, they did a good job of identifying other alternatives so...
A day ago I attended a presentation run by a couple of young Sun engineers entitled 'Java Platform Web Applications Vs Ruby on Rails: This Time With Tools'. They were big fans of Rails, and set about examining two important questions:Can you develop a JSF...
Day two at JavaOne and I've been amazed at how many times presenters (including many Sun employees) have advocated Ruby on Rails during their presentations, be it running on JRuby or the native C Ruby implementation.The thing that I'm curious about is if and how...
Both Mark and I attended a presentation last night that covered a variety of frameworks inspired by Rails - known collectively as the '*rails' frameworks. Core to all of them is that they promote the convention-over-configuration approach pioneered by Rails.We began with the grand-daddy of...
Big day at JavaOne today with the keynote. There are a lot of people here. Mark's already covered the keynote, so all I'll say is this: that room was so big I reckon you could fit at least two Boeing 747's end-to-end in it.Straight afterwards...
Today at the JavaOne Community Day I saw a couple of presentations on JRuby and the NetBeans Ruby support. Mark's already talked about the JRuby stuff, so I'm going to cover the NetBeans Ruby support. I've actually been playing with it for a week or...
Welcome to a series of blogs around the JavaOne conference in San Francisco, CA. Ben Teese and myself are here to rub shoulders with the greats of the Java community and hopefully learn some stuff.Today is the CommunityOne day, which is really a warm...
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