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Upcoming event round-up! Next weekend, Tom Enebo, Nick Sieger and I will be at PyCon, checking out all the pythony goodness and hooking up w...

Today we can finally announce another exciting language-related event: we've hired Frank Wierzbicki of the Jython project and Ted Leung ...

Finally the full announcement is available. We're pretty excited about this one... The University of Tokyo and Sun Microsystems Commence...

Greetings! Google's Summer of Code for 2008 is starting up again, and we're looking for folks to submit proposals. The JRuby Commun...

I'm taking a break from some bug fixing to bring you this public service announcement: Ruby's Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and the tim...

It's 5am in Brussels and I'm awake. That can only mean one thing. Time to blog! This weekend I'm presenting JRuby at FOSDEM , th...

Today, Tom got the JRuby 1.1 RC2 release out. It's an astounding collection of performance improvements and compatibility fixes. Here...

Yes friends, I'm at Microsoft's Lang.NET symposium this week. Does this strike you as a bit peculiar? Lang.NET is Microsoft's e...

Well it's been a long hard slog for the Jython team. Once thought dead, they seemed to pick up steam more and more over the past year. T...

json-lib 2.2 has been released by Andres Almiray, and he boldly claims that "it now has become the most complete JSON parsing library...

When I posted on a few easy JRuby 1.0.2 bugs a couple months ago, I got a great response. So since I'm doing a bug tracker review today ...

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...