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Tor Norbye is a programming machine on par with the legendary Ola of Bini. He's the one-man force working on NetBeans Ruby support, and ...

Now this is really cool. Tony Hursh, commenter on the previous "Advanced Rails Deployment" post, put together an OS X Application ...

I'm trying to be 100% NetBeans these days, and I'll be documenting tips and tricks as I learn them. Hopefully others going through t...

There's a lot of work going on right now focusing on various mechanisms for deploying JRuby-based apps. This article will summarize some...

I thought I'd make a diversion from my usual JRuby activities this weekend and ping the Jython dev list. I'd been lurking for a mont...

Well friends, it's time for another episode of "Impossible Or Not!" Today's contender is Ruby in the browser, long desired...

Thijs van der Vossen posts an interesting perspective on recommending Sun and how his opinion of the company has been changed by recent eve...

Yes, it's official. News is already starting to pop up around the net about Java's open-sourcing and especially about the choice of ...

I'm not entirely sure how to feel about this one. Apparently James McGovern believes that "the Ruby community at large should drop ...

The JRuby community continues to pick up steam! A number of JRubyists have recently started actively looking at the problem of deploying Rai...

There's an interesting little poll here on favorite Java-based scripting lang: What is your favorite Java based scripting language? It d...

Huzzah! Java 6 has been approved by the JCP. The final results on JSR 270 show that the voting was 13 for, none opposed, with three not vot...

Last night I gave my 2+ hour talk on Ruby, JRuby, and JRuby on Rails to the Gateway JUG in St Louis, and it seems to have been a resounding ...

My former employer, Ventera Corporation , is still looking to fill my old position. I was their lead/senior Java EE architect, in charge of ...

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...