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Top languages on Github: JavaScript reigns, Ruby and Python next

By tim, on January 9th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I cloned a github repository today, and while browsing the site noticed the language stats:

Git was originally developed for the Linux kernel and is mainly for the open source community. I was interested to see JavaScript, the language of HTML 5, riding so high. PHP, C and C++ are lower than I would

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Book Review: The Book of Ruby by Huw Collingbourne

By tim, on August 9th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

“The plain fact of the matter is that Ruby has a number of pitfalls just waiting for unwary programmers to fall into,” says author Huw Collingbourne in his introduction to this guide to the Ruby language. He should know; he is co-founder and Technology Directory of SapphireSteel Software, which makes Ruby in Steel, an add-in

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No more Ruby support in NetBeans – the feature was little used, says Oracle

By tim, on January 27th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Oracle has announced the discontinuation of Ruby support in the NetBeans IDE. The reason? First, to free resources for JDK 7 support; but second (and more significant) – hardly anyone was using it.

There is hardly a shortage of Ruby IDEs. Ones that come to mind are the Eclipse-based Aptana, JetBrains RubyMine, the Visual Studio

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The Salesforce.com platform play

By tim, on December 9th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I’ve been mulling over the various Salesforce.com announcements here at Dreamforce, which taken together attempt to transition Salesforce.com from being a cloud CRM provider to becoming a cloud platform for generic applications. Of course this transition is not new – it began years ago with Force.com and the creation of the Apex language – and

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Salesforce.com acquires Heroku, wants your Enterprise apps

By tim, on December 8th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

The big news today is that Salesforce.com has agreed to acquire Heroku, a company which hosts Ruby applications using an architecture that enables seamless scalability. Heroku apps run on “dynos”, each of which is a single process running Ruby code on the Heroku “grid” – an abstraction which runs on instances of Amazon EC2 virtual

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Microsoft lets go of IronPython and IronRuby

By tim, on October 22nd, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Visual Studio corporate VP Jason Zander has announced that IronPython and IronRuby, .NET implementations of popular dynamic languages, are to be handed over to the open source community. This includes add-ons that enable development in Visual Studio, IronPython Tools and IronRuby Tools. Of the two, IronPython is a more mature and usable project.

Why? Here’s

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PyCharm: JetBRAINS IDE for Python and Django

By tim, on October 13th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

JetBRAINS has released PyCharm, an IDE for Python and the Django web development framework.

The company is best known for the IntelliJ IDEA Java IDE, and indeed PyCharm is mostly written in Java, but now has other tools for languages including PHP and Ruby and Rails. It also does add-ins for .NET developrs working in

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Latest job stats on technology adoption – Flash, Silverlight, iPhone, Android, C#, Java

By tim, on September 14th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

It is all very well expressing opinions on which technologies are hot and which are struggling, but what is happening in the real world? It is hard to get an accurate picture – surveys tend to have sampling biases of one kind or another, and vendors rarely release sales figures. I’ve never been happy with

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Dynamic language slowdown at Microsoft?

By tim, on August 7th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Jimmy Schementi, until recently a Program Manager at Microsoft working on IronRuby, has posted about why he is leaving the company; and in doing so answers a question I posed a few months back, Why F# rather than IronPython in Visual Studio 2010?

When my manager asked me, “what else would you want to work

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