Daily Archives: 17 January 2008
Uncertainty for Ruby on Rails despite changes
The launch of a low-cost Ruby on Rails integrated development environment from SapphireSteel Software based on Microsoft’s Visual Studio comes at a turning point for both the Ruby language and its associated Rails framework. But quite what the turning point will be is open to question. On the one hand Sun’s director of web technologies … Continue reading
Academics slam Java
Learn a real language The choice of Java as a first programming language in computer science courses is undermining good programming practice, according to two leading academics. In a withering attack on those responsible for setting the curriculum for computer science courses, doctors Robert Dewar and Edmond Schonberg of New York University (and principals of … Continue reading
Buying MySQL Could save Sun
We knew that Sun (JAVA) has been lusting after a real software business in addition to Solaris. We knew that Sun “shares” — that it digs open source, including Solaris and Java. And we knew that Sun had a love-hate relationship with Oracle (ORCL) and a hate-hate relationship with IBM (IBM) and Microsoft (MSFT).
