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The view from the top of IT with TechWorld Editor Rohan Pearce
Property portal Realestate.com.au has been re-engineered from the ground up with its legacy Perl codebase being replaced with Java and Ruby on Rails.
By Rodney Gedda | 17 November, 2010 09:45
In the world of enterprise programming, the mainstream is broad and deep. Code is written predominantly in one of a few major languages. For some shops, this means Java; for others, it's C# or PHP. Sometimes, enterprise coders will dabble in C++ or another common language used for high-performance tasks such as game programming, all of which turn around and speak SQL to the database.
By Peter Wayner | 26 October, 2010 00:51
Microsoft's open source IronRuby and IronPython projects are shrouded in a dubious future as the last of the full-time IronRuby developers departed the company last month.
By Rodney Gedda | 09 August, 2010 12:32
Ruby, the popular open source dynamic language, is making headway not only on Java but also on the Windows and Mac platforms.
By Paul Krill | 21 November, 2009 12:20
Builders of the JRuby version of the Ruby programming language are working to enable development of Ruby-based business applications for the Android handheld platform, a leader of the JRuby project said on Monday afternoon.
By Paul Krill | 15 September, 2009 10:43
Web application development reached a new paradigm with the release of Ruby on Rails back in 2004. Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson has since been at the helm of one of the most successful and popular open source software development projects. Ruby on Rails, or just Rails, has allowed thousands of developers to create complex applications rapidly in a consistent manner. Open Source Identity catches up David Heinemeier Hansson to find out what the early days of Rails was like and what the future holds.
By Rodney Gedda | 22 October, 2009 10:51
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