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Hello again! As you may know, I've been working part-time on a new language called Duby . Duby looks like Ruby, since it co-opts the JRu...

JRuby 1.5 will be released soon, and one of the coolest new features is the integration of Ant support into Rake, the Ruby build tool. Tom E...

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...