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Ruby on Rails: Enterprise ready or not

James McGovern certainly stirred up a hornet's nest with his blog earlier this month on why he thinks Ruby on Rails isn't enterprise ready. Rails creator David Hansson didn't take too kindly to it, and some other folks agreed. I won't quote all of it because you can go...

Tags: David Hansson

Blog posts 2006-03-31

Making programmers more productive

A decade or so ago, I was excited about Java. The promise of Java as a language was that it would make applets, servlets, and other Internet programming tasks easier. While I was and remain a Perl junky, I drank the Java Kool-Aid, believing that I...

Tags: David Hansson, Java, Rail

Blog posts 2005-11-01

Additional Resources

Ruby on Rails picks REST; no tears for SOAP

In the ongoing contention between SOAP and REST as a Web services protocol, many developers appear to drawn to REST. The latest release of Ruby on Rails, the lightweight development framework which has been growing in popularity, favors REST. According to a report in...

Tags: Ruby, Simple Object Access Protocol, Ruby On Rails, SOAP, Web Services, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2007-12-11

Add Ajax support to your Web application with Rails

Since 2005, Rails has become a serious and popular alternative to traditional Web development environments such as Java and .NET. It offers developers who want to write professional-grade applications a full-stack, open-source Web framework, with integrated support for unit, functional, and integration testing. It enforces good design principles,...

Tags: Web Application, Pragmatic Bookshelf, AJAX, Cloud Computing, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0

Book chapters 2007-03-13

Promise yet questions at Ajax confab

Promise yet questions at Ajax confabRADical Ruby on RailsGetting a website developed and running is one thing.Maintaining it is another.The Rails framework isn't the first to encapsulate the Model/View/Controller, but what sets it apart is perpaps more about the pure object-oriented nature of Ruby and how Rails acheives encapsulation, thanks...

Tags: Scripting languages, Programming languages, Ruby on Rails, Google Inc., Ruby, AJAX, Eclipse

Discussion threads 2006-03-15

Promise yet questions at Ajax confab

Barely a year old as a term, the Ajax browser programming technique has received a lot of press and industry attention in the last few months. Not the least because of the head-turning software that's being developed with it (check Michael Arrington's terrific TechCrunch if you're still not sure...

Tags: AJAX

Blog posts 2006-03-14

AJAX and Rails at ETech

I'm at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, called ETech, all this week. I'll be posting updates on interesting happenings throughout the week. For me, day one of ETech was mostly about JavaScript, AJAX, and Ruby. I spent the morning in a tutorial by Simon Willison...

Tags: JavaScript, AJAX

Blog posts 2006-03-06

Exclusive: MacBook Pro unboxing pics

Exclusive: MacBook Pro unboxing picsHave fun Beta Tester!Finally! Congrats!Looking forward to the update on battery life, heat, iSight cam, and speed with Adobe apps...Yauza!TokyoAceBattery Life?What does the battery life say when unplugged? I know you will probably have some test soon.Message has been deleted.Makes MeREALLY want one.Have fun!! :)Pack...

Tags: Notebooks, Apple MacBook Pro, Apple MacBook, battery

Discussion threads 2006-02-20

Best Web Companies and Innovators of 2005

I'm forever linking to my ZDNet blog from my Read/WriteWeb blog, so I'm sure it's OK to link to R/WW every once in a while. Best Web Companies and Innovators of 2005 is a follow-up to piece I wrote in 2004. Below is the list of 'winners', with the...

Tags: Web, Yahoo! Inc., 37Signals

Blog posts 2005-12-22

OSCON 2005: Tutorials

I'm at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention all week and will be posting impressions and news as I come across it. I've spent the last two days in tutorials on Ruby on Rails, the Apache Web Services toolkit, and Best Practices for Object-Oriented Perl. I've not programmed anything...

Tags: Perl, Rail

Blog posts 2005-08-02