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This year, no major Ruby organization got accepted to Google's Summer of Code (even though a half dozen Python projects got accepted, bu...

JRuby has become notorious among Ruby implementations for having a slow startup time. Some of this is the JVM's fault, since it doesn...

Like most geeks, I watched with great anticipation as the iPad was unveiled yesterday. In my case, it was from liveblogs monitored on spotty...

(How long has it been since I last blogged? Answer: a long time. I'll try to blog more frequently now that the (TOTALLY INSANE) fall con...

This year, RubyConf reportedly reduced their attendee cap to 250 people ( Update: actually 450 people), after hosting a 500 to 600-person c...

Good news everybody! We're finally going to have JRubyConf! After over 3 years of heavy development, dozens of deployments and hundreds ...

In June of this year, I spent a few hours formulating a dynamic cousin to Duby . Duby, if you don't remember, is a static-typed language...

We often get the question "which deployment option is the best for JRuby on Rails?" The truth is that it depends on what you need ...

It's been a while since I was able to work on JRuby's Android support, but tonight I managed to finally circle back. And I've go...

I should have blogged this sooner, but things have been a little...crazy...lately. The JVM Languages Summit is coming up for its second year...

I'm going to be speaking about JRuby again this year at eRubyCon , in Columbus OH. I just got back from Rails Underground , which remind...

Here's a list of talks about Ruby or that mention/relate to Ruby at CommunityOne and JavaOne 2009. Some of these are about other langu...

I just released BiteScript 0.0.2, which mainly fixes some issues defining packages and non-public classes. BiteScript is basically just a si...

A number of you have asked how you can help JRuby development. Well there's actually an easy way: fix RubySpec failures. You may have n...

Today David R. MacIver pinged me in #scala and asked "headius: Presumably you guys have spent quite a lot of time trying to make things...