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Finalist managed to reach the second place in the ‘Development Tools’ content using Ruby on Rails. More about this on our corporate website here (Dutch).
I think this is an excellent achievement and like to congratulate Remco and Michiel on it!
I’d really like to use tools which feel as competitive as Rails on a daily bases, […]

Occasionally when some non-programmer sees program builders like code generating UML tools or, in this case Yahoo's new pipes service, they start making jokes about how developers are going to unnecessary in the future.
Normally I would just forget about such nonsense, but since this one involved the incredibly hyped Yahoo service I decided to [...]

Yesterday evening I went to the JRuby talk organized by Finalist at the Stroom Hotel in Rotterdam. The presentation (by JRuby gurus Charles O. Nutter and Tom Enebo) was quite similar to the presentation they gave at Javapolis but with some juicy additions.
To get an idea of what is possible with JRuby just download the [...]

(blatant but really important clone from remvee)
Both JRuby super hero’s, Charles and Thomas, will be talking about JRuby tomorrow at Stroom Hotel in Rotterdam. Come and find out why having a Ruby interpreter on the Java platform is a “good thing”.
Registration seminar@finalist.com.

The small Rails app which I wrote for my wife broke down completely just after the installation of the new version of Rails (the 'mandatory' 1.1.5 and 1.1.6) by Dreamhost.
Couldn't get it to work at all, and no sensible logging info was produced...
At the end (took me about four hours) it started to work again, [...]

Just after writing my previous post I noticed the following post on one of my incoming RSS feeds:
Rails 1.1.5: Mandatory security patch (and more)
From the article:
This is a MANDATORY upgrade for anyone not running on a very recent edge (which isn’t affected by this). If you have a public Rails site, you MUST upgrade to [...]

While going through some Spring 2.0 documentation on using dynamic languages in combination with Spring I noticed an example of a Spring MVC controller written in Groovy. I fiddled arround with it a bit, the refreshable bean feature makes it really cool... now I can edit my controllers in a running application server!
Since I like [...]

Last week the results of the Rad Race where published, and guess what... the Finalist ruby team managed to finish second! Go Ruby!
These results convinced our managing director to officially start a series of training sessions.
More info can be found on the company website here.
Strange thing is, being familiar with RoR for over a year [...]

My weblog seems to attract people from the other side of the globe:

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sakamoto_yuki
Can't really read what is written, maybe not to positive at all... but hey, I'm being noticed

A colleague of mine (disclaimer: he is a Ruby fanatic) mailed me a link to the following video:

(click the image or this link for the video) Although the movie is a bit too java-negative for my taste I found the movie usefull to extend my knowledge on existing frameworks (never heard of turbogears and django [...]