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Just have to slip this quick Ruby and Rails fix for our friends who attended POSS and are interested about becoming 'rock star' developers in the future.
Some Ruby and Ruby on Rails (whatever your choice of starting point) online resource for newbies.
Guru or just plain Satish, he'd definitely welcome you as a Ruby pupil. Visit Ruby Learning and enroll like in a college course without the school fees.
74 Quality Ruby on Rails Resources and Tutorials
Neighborly Advice: By the time you get through this list, you're certified.
Why? I dunno. But it's one clever piece of hands-on tutorial that has a certain special quality about it. Poignant.
Any other cool resource I may have missed? Feel free to comment so we could add to the list. Now, back to our 'live' show for the week.
Like the proverbial Babel Tower, development platforms for Web 2.0 tend to be a disruptive factor among programmers. Protective of their own turfs, supporters of each scripting language tend to lose composure and rant it out sometimes.
Check out how the comparisons and showdowns between Ruby and Java have gone through the years with a few select articles.
2005
Slashdot Ruby- Java Showdown
YARJC
IBM asks if there is room for both
2006
PHP joins in
2008
CommunityOne Face-Off - Fresh!
Ruby vs Java Conundrum
But things are taking shape which will allow both or eventually, most of the languages to thrive. Ruby and Java can co-exist in his web world and Morph Labs is taking a step towards that direction. Enter the Morph Application Platform for Java.
Developers never had it so easy, don't you think?
You can read about what other people are saying about it here.
We got to spend a little downtime (of the good kind) over coffee and milkshakes with George and Junie after an exciting Morph Code last Saturday . And we were, unfortunately, still discussing work after a long day that began at midnight with only a few hours of shut-eye. We can only nod our heads in agreement that it truly was quite a week! Bear me with me a little...
And since it's already April, we also got to hear stories about things people do during this day - more popularly known as April Fools. It's unbelievable the things people would go through to make this day memorable like using a fluorescent marker to brush the inside handle of the phone and then making a call to the person which resulted in colorful cheeks and one not-so-happy person planning for some retribution.
You can now check for yourself the new Morph eXchange. Not only is the site more reflective of the staff and the culture now, but more importantly, there's plenty of value to be found inside like the Morph Appspace which can be your very own application delivery environment.
The Morph eXchange becomes "the launch pad into the world of Software as a Service" beginning with Ruby on Rails developers who need more than hosting to deploy and market their web applications. True SaaS, free from all the constraints, begins April 1. Again, try it for yourself. Sign up, click and browse to find out the solutions and services we're offering.
Hopefully, it won't just be us. Heck, we hope to make you part of this. too.
No hoax, no joke and no kidding.
