It has been a while since RubyFringe , but the first of the session videos are up on InfoQ . The one is with our good friend Obie Fernandez titled "Do the Hustle", which basically talks about the business-side of Ruby and Rails development. The summary of the session states: Obie Fernandez...

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UPDATE: I had the chance to talk with Ivan about IronNails. Please read the interview over on InfoQ . As we see IronRuby make progress within Microsoft, we are also seeing new projects pop-up as well. One such project I have noticed and wanted to share is IronNails , created and opensourced by Ivan Porto...

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A new magazine has hit the Ruby world, giving us our first Ruby-only publication, called The Rubyist . It is Published by Jeremy McAnally , author of the Humble Little Ruby Book and Ruby conference speaker. The Rubyist is described as: A technical magazine focused on technical content and the happenings...

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I have been doing a lot of C# development over the years and it has been my primary language since the days of C and C++ coding. I started working with Ruby for the past couple years doing personal projects and some client work too. It was an experience to learn Ruby after so long with C-type languages...

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  it is official, Professional IronRuby published by Wrox/Wiley is finally looking like it is a real thing.  A fellow developer noticed this on the Amazon web site and passed on to me today.  I was not even aware it was up yet. Aaron and I have a third author, Dan Bernier ,  so this...

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Today was the second and final day of RubyFringe. I only had the opportunity to listen to a couple speakers today because I was busy all day interviewing some of the speakers from the conference for InfoQ . Check out a post from the Unspace folks discussing the conference. The Speakers Geoffrey Grosenbach...

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I will be heading up to Toronto for the RubyFringe event at the Metropolitan , July 18-20. I will be at the event representing InfoQ and doing some interviews of some of the speakers. If any speaker sees this and is interested in being interviewed please contact me at rbazinet at gmail.com. We can talk...

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I was supposed to be at RailsConf this year covering the event for InfoQ , but I am not there. Sometimes higher priorities overtake the things we would like to do and well, I am home. One of the announcements I thought might be coming at the event was the release of Ruby on Rails 2.1 and sure enough...

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John Lam announced on his blog that the IronRuby team has successfully processed some simple requests with an unmodified copy of Rails. The plan is to show off this achievement at RailsConf this week . Congratulations to the team for many accomplishments in a short amount of time: We started our work...

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I think just about everyone in the software development community at least knows what Ruby on Rails is, so I won't do into it here. There is some real exciting things going on in the Ruby community and in particular, Ruby on Rails running on more than one implementation of Ruby. Rails has been running...

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