Archive for May 2009

Article: Java Integration with Groovy, JRuby and Scala

Java Integration with Groovy, JRuby and Scala by Tiago Fernandez

In my opinion, Scala is currently the most suited to the enterprise world. Maybe we'll get better results from JRuby if it could generate Java types from Ruby code, but I'm afraid it's too soon.

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Slides: Presentation slides from RailsConf 2009

Speaker Presentation Files: RailsConf 2009 from oreilly.com

%w(map reduce).first – A Tale About Rabbits, Latency, and Slim Crontabs
A-Z Introduction to Ruby on Rails
Advanced Performance Optimization of Rails Applications
And the Greatest of These Is … Rack Support
Art of the Ruby Proxy for Scale, Performance, and Monitoring
Automated Code Quality Checking In Ruby And Rails
Below and Beneath TDD: Test Last Development and Other Real-World Test Patterns
Build an App, Start a Movement
Building a Mini-Google: High-Performance Computing in Ruby
Building Next Generation Web Apps with Rails and SproutCore
Crate: Packaging Standalone Ruby Applications
Develop with pleasure, Deploy with Fun: GlassFish and NetBeans for a better Rails experience
Discussion Panel: Women In Rails
Don't Mock Yourself Out
Gov 2.0: Transparency, Collaboration, and Participation in Practice
Guitar Hero®: Behind the Music
HTTP's Best-Kept Secret: Caching
I Rock, I Suck, I am – Jumpstart Your Journey to Agile
Integrating Flex and Rails with RubyAMF
Integrating SMS Messaging with your Rails Application
It's Not Always Sunny In the Clouds: Lessons Learned
jQuery on Rails
JRuby on Rails
Lightning Talks
PWN Your Infrastructure: Behind Call of Duty: World at War
Quality Code with Cucumber
R-House – Rails for Home Automation
Rails 3 and the Real Secret to High Productivity
Rails and Legacy Databases
Rails in the Large:How We're Developing the Largest Rails Project in the World
Rails Is from Mars, Ruby Is from Venus
Rails3: Step Off of the Golden Path
Rails: A Year of Innovation
Running the Show: Configuration Management with Chef
Smacking Git Around – Advanced Git Tricks
Solving the Riddle of Search: Using Sphinx with Rails
Starting Up Fast: Lessons from the Rails Rumble
The Even-Darker Art of Rails Engines
The Future of Deployment: A Killer Panel
The GitHub Panel
Twitter on Rails
Using metric_fu to Make Your Rails Code Better
Webrat: Rails Acceptance Testing Evolved
What Makes Ruby Go: An Implementation Primer
When to Tell Your Kids About Client Caching

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Article: OSGi With Scala, Java, Groovy, Maven and PAX

OSGi With Scala, Java, Groovy, Maven and PAX by Brian Murphy

walk you through the setup of an OSGi project that is comprised of three OSGi bundles; one for Java, one for Groovy and one for Scala.

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Article: Ajax Framework Analysis Results

Ajax Framework Analysis Results from raibledesigns.com

we believe the decision all comes down to what the developers on the project feel they will be most comfortable with. If you're developing with Dojo or YUI, chances are you're dressing up existing HTML and possibly using progressive enhancement to add more rich functionality. On the other hand, Ext JS and GWT are similar to Swing programming where you build the UI with code (JavaScript for Ext JS, Java for GWT).

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