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Celebrity Engineers–Software’s Equivalent of Arts Patronage

February 15, 2013

Business

Aaron Levie, Benevolent Dictator For Life, dropbox, google, Guido van Rossum, Heroku, Python, Ruby, Sam Schillace

Back in the days gone by, if you were part of the landed gentry, lording over your landholdings and the common folk who lived on said land, you’d look to becoming a patron of the arts as a way…

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Temboo Eases App Development–API Shortcuts

August 10, 2012

Business

Application programming interface, Java, PHP, Pipes, Python, Ruby, Temboo, yahoo

The life of developers is arguably more exciting than ever before – with so many different services only an API call, it is possible for developers to deliver upon what were only dreams a few short years ago. But…

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OpenLogic Announces General Availability of CloudSwing PaaS

October 27, 2011

Business

Apache Tomcat, cloudcomputing, Java, PaaS, PHP, rackspace, Rails, Ruby

The other day Krish bemoaned the fact that PaaS is rapidly becoming homogenized as all players rapidly follow their competitors in rolling out features and languages. As Krish said; …[they] talk about differentiation in terms of user experience. But,…

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JRuby for Engine Yard Goes GA

September 28, 2011

Business

cloudcomputing, EngineYard, Java, JavaOne, JRuby, PHP, Ruby

In another step towards PaaS provider Engine Yard becoming a fully featured multi language platform player, they are today announcing that JRuby on Engine Yard is entering general availability. Timed to coincide with next week’s JavaOne conferent, JRuby is…

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Ruby Creator Yukihiro Matsumoto Joins Heroku

July 12, 2011

Business

Heroku, Ruby, Yukihiro Matsumoto

In another piece of big news today, salesforce is announcing that Yukihiro Matsumoto, the creator of Ruby, is joining Heroku in the newly created role of Chief Architect of Ruby. A self-taught computer programmer, Yukihiro Matsumoto or “Matz,” as…

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When Enterprise Apps Get Agile–A Ruby/Salesforce Case Study

December 15, 2010

Business

Heroku, Ruby, Salesforce.com

When I first wrote about salesforce.com’s acquisition of Heroku, and in a subsequent post looking at the deal from a New Zealand perspective, I hinted at a great case study I’d heard of. Many of my fellow commentators have…

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Force.com and Heroku–A Kiwi Perspective

December 9, 2010

Business

Force.Com, Heroku, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Salesforce.com

I posted yesterday about the purchase by Salesforce of Ruby on Rails application platform Heroku. This is a quick post to look at how this can make a big difference to the ecosystem of developers out there who make…

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Celebrity Engineers–Software’s Equivalent of Arts Patronage

Temboo Eases App Development–API Shortcuts

OpenLogic Announces General Availability of CloudSwing PaaS

JRuby for Engine Yard Goes GA

Ruby Creator Yukihiro Matsumoto Joins Heroku

When Enterprise Apps Get Agile–A Ruby/Salesforce Case Study

Force.com and Heroku–A Kiwi Perspective