SD Ruby – Episode 044: Ext JavaScript Library
Adam Grant talks about his experiences using Ext, a new Javascript library for creating advanced UI controls (like grids, trees, progress bars, etc). http://sdruby.com/podcast/44
Tag: ruby
PIT: Rails in the Enterprise
Most Rails integration efforts revolve around integrating with third party vendors, but much less is being said about how a Rails based application can be a key contributer and consumer of different apps and legacy databases in an enterprise environment. This is the story of PIT, the Programme Information Toolkit, …
Selenium on Rails
Have you heard the story of the poor code monkey? The one who had to prove to his boss that his web app actually worked? Are you the poor code monkey? See how Selenium on Rails can make it easier to take the pain out of view testing by writing …
SD Ruby – Episode 049: Intro to EC2
Chris Petersen gives an introduction to working with Amazon EC2, and discusses the advantages and disadvantage to hosting your Ruby applications there. http://sdruby.com/podcast/49
Pumping Iron: Dynamic Languages on .NET
As you may know, Microsoft is developing IronPython and IronRuby, .NET implementations of the popular open-source programming languages Python and Ruby. While it’s clear that Microsoft wants to attract existing Python and Ruby developers to .NET, the role of IronPython and IronRuby for existing .NET developers is less clear. What …
JRuby and Beyond: A Renaissance for the Java Platform
The Java platform is changing. No longer can a developer get by just knowing Java. There’s JRuby providing Ruby and Rails. There’s Groovy with Grails and other frameworks. Jython for Django. Scala with Lift. Rhino for JavaScript and frameworks like Phobos. And all of them provide not only access to …