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derek
John Adams. George Selkirk. Steve Ballmer. Charles Brian Quinn.
The people above have something in common – they followed in the footsteps of an icon. For Highgroove Studios’ Charles Brian Quinn, it’s taking over Ruby on Rails training at Big Nerd Ranch from David Black, author of Ruby for Rails and leader of RubyCentral, and Marcel Molina Jr., member of Rails core and part of the team at 37Signals.…
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Aaron Hillegass
When I spoke at the Student Session at WWDC, I announced that I was taking submissions for a framework of reusable Cocoa classes, and that I would give the best entry a free seat in a Big Nerd Ranch class. I was expecting a flood of submissions, but only received five.…
Author:
derek
1. Java hearts Ruby
The JRuby team gets assimilated into Sun. So what does JRuby do? Check out Jeremy Voorhis’ Hello World application and this presentation.
2. J2EE RESTful support – not for the faint of heart
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derek
Here’s a look at the most thought-provoking Ruby on Rails news items of the week as determined by the always unbiased (but not beyond bribes) team at Highgroove:
1. The Enterprise Rails Debate
The best result of the latest “is Rails/Ruby ready for the enterprise debate” (see Joel Spolesky’s and DHH’s original cross-fire) was Justin Gehtland’s clarification of enterprise software.…
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derek
I’ve been lucky enough to work on many client projects that make me (and my friends) generally excited. Blurb, a Highgroove client and a recently launched Ruby on Rails application, is one of those projects.
Blurb makes it look like your portfolio, travel journal, fiction novel, or any other creative print piece belongs in a Borders bookstore with its own SKU.…