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Well the arrangements have all been made for my trip down to St. Louis for the November Gateway JUG meeting. I'll be presenting the usua...

I spent today hacking on the Ruby to Java compiler and made some good progress. Here's the highlights: It now parses a full script rathe...

There's now a complete transcript of my JRuby presentation for the Rubyists of Second Life complete with my slides and all the inter-av...

As most of you know, I was recently at RubyConf to see the latest developments in the Ruby world and to meet up with others interested in Ru...

I should have tossed this in a blog entry earlier, but perhaps it's not too late. I will be presenting JRuby to the Rubyists of Second L...

Some fellow name TAKAI Naoto has posted an interesting comparison of JRuby on Rails running under WEBrick versus running under AsyncWeb : TA...

It's been approximately a year since I launched into my first redesign of the JRuby interpreter engine, and a lot has happened since the...

We've added a cleaner, simpler syntax to JRuby for including Java classes into a given namespace. It stemmed from a response of mine to...

We're proud and excited to announce that Ola Bini has officially joined the JRuby development team. Ola has proven to be one of the mos...

I love comparing current trunk against 0.9.0. It always makes me happy. Here are the numbers for a local gem install rake. The second set of...

There's been some good blogging lately related to dynamic languages and their future in a Java-based world. I'm glad there's sma...

A question came up this morning on the JRuby Users mailing list about a feature Jython and Groovy support: constructors that initialize bean...

Tom and I got together and brainstormed the interface implementation issue today. We think we've come up with a reasonably solid solutio...

I have posted my slides and demo on headius.com at the following URLs. The demo has some very basic instructions for getting it to work, but...

Ok, so this post is as much for me as for you (so I have a post to refer back to) but some of you may be interested to know what conferences...

I'm still decompressing a bit after a great conference and 14 hours of transit from London to San Jose, but blogs are starting to trickl...

Yes, today is the day! We will be getting JRubyists together at the Fitzroy near the RailsConf conference center. Here's a gmap to the F...

P at Eyler has a good wrap up of some reactions around the Net to the recent Sun move.

There's been a lot of buzz about Tom and my new jobs at Sun, and understandably so. The response so far has been overwhelmingly positive...

It's going to be a big news day for JRuby :) The two core JRuby developers, myself and Thomas Enebo, will become employees at Sun Micros...