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JavaPolis 2007 - Antwerp, Belgium - December 10-14 - Sounds like a great event this year, with claims of over 3200 registrations so far. I...

The Groovy team has kicked out their second major production release, Groovy 1.5 ...and skipped straight from 1.0 to 1.5. Why? Perhaps becau...

I'm really excited about this one. Kelly O'Hair reports that OpenJDK source has been fully migrated to Mercurial ! This means that d...

Some of you may know I participate in the Groovy community as well. I'm hoping to start contributing some development time to the Groovy...

$ jruby -J-Djruby.compat.version=ruby1_9 -v ruby 1.9.1 (2007-11-29 rev 4842) [i386-jruby1.1b1]

WiiHear - Streaming audio for the Wii. Very cool. It was a little spotty for me, but your results may be better. And in related news: Super...

As Ola reported earlier today, we've merged Joni , Marcin Mielczynski's port of Oniguruma , to JRuby trunk. Here's the descripti...

I just stumbled across this little gem today: Landon Fuller's JDK 6 Port for OS X Who Landon Fuller is I don't know. But I find it i...

I have a tendency to post intentionally inflammatory posts that usually end up evenly divided between "yea" and "nay". B...

Roy Hayun presented his "JRuby on ME" talk this past JavaOne and got a pretty solid response. He ported a pre-1.0 JRuby to CDC by ...

Hopefully by now you've heard about the GlassFish Gem. It's a roughly 3MB gem that includes only the pieces of GlassFish necessary t...

Inspired by Tim Bray's periodic tab sweeps (Tim, do you collect unread tabs into the dozens like I do?) here's the first of hopefull...

I've been toying with the idea of rewriting the JRuby compiler in Ruby, or at least writing the appropriate plumbing that would allow so...

You know Ruby. You've been coding up Ruby apps for a while now. You've seen the power and the magic that Ruby offers developers, and...

In response to my post about the Ruby community needing an autotranslator for the key mailing lists, due to the language barrier between En...

For those of you that don't know, RejectConf started last year at RubyConf 2006 in Denver because Ryan Davis (zenspider; author of the m...

As many of you know, Ruby was created in Japan by Yukihiro Matsumoto, and most of the core development team is still Japanese to this day. T...

Oh yes, you all know you love the Alioth Shootout. Isaac Gouy has updated the JRuby numbers, and modified the default comparison to be with ...

A bit ago, I was catching up on my feeds and noticed that Neal Gafter had announced the first prototype of Java closures . I've been a f...

I've posted about TIOBE here before. The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programming languag...