Last year, Apple released MacRuby, an open source Ruby implementation written on top of the Objective-C runtime. Writing native MacOSX applications in Ruby without having to pay the cost of using a bridge is now a reality. This is an important milestone for Ruby, Apple and the Ruby community.Matt Aimonetti …
Agile projects have a reputation in many circles as cowboy coding or purely “code n’fix.†While there might not be an explicitly defined “Architecture†or “Design†phase or activity, design is still an integral part of any successful Agile project. This talk will discuss the questions of when, how, and …
Qt Software today announced that the Qt source code repositories are open to the public and that Qt developers now can help guide and shape the future development of Qt by contributing code, translations, examples and other contributions to Qt and Qt-related projects. More information on http://www.qtsoftware.com/about/news/qt-contribution-model-announced
The Rhodes framework is a platform for building locally executing, device-optimized mobile applications for all major smartphone devices. These applications are optimized for interacting with transactional enterprise application backends. It is also designed to work with synced local using the other “RhoSyncâ€. It is initially available for iPhone, Windows Mobile …
Dan Bornstein gives a quick overview of Dalvik, the virtual machine used by Android. The virtual machine runs Java platform applications which have been converted into a compact Dalvik Executable (.dex) format suitable for systems that are constrained in terms of memory and processor speed.
Silicon Valley JavaScript Meetup session from January 21, 2009, hosted at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA. Nicholas Zakas talks about the performance differences between local and global variables (cross variables). Davey Waterson talks about ActiveRecord.js, an open source JavaScript library that implements the ActiveRecord data persistence and querying pattern …