Using Dynamic Languages to Develop Microsoft Silverlight Applications
Published June 10th, 2010 Under Silverlight | Leave a Comment
Learn how to use the Microsoft Visual Basic/C# DLR integration to test a statically-typed application with IronRuby. See how to develop a Silverlight application end-to-end with IronRuby, and how programming with dynamic languages helps improve the dev experience.
Scripting Android With Ruby
Published May 31st, 2010 Under General | Leave a Comment
Mark Ranallo will give an introduction to using JRuby in conjunction with the Android Scripting Environment. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.
Embracing Collaboration with JRuby and JavaScript
Published March 10th, 2010 Under Javascript, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment
As web developers, we live in an arranged marriage with JavaScript. What is a Rubyist to do? Use JavaScript as a compile target? Abstract it away on the server? With JRuby, we can embrace the shared language of the web in a compelling way, building reusable libraries that work across the client-server boundary. By bridging Ruby to JavaScript using Rhino, we gain shared databases, including their indexing strategies. We gain remote model discovery and shared client/server validation. We gain a shared query language. And because it is JavaScript, we gain the entire web community as collaborators.
Bowline: A Ruby GUI Framework
Published February 18th, 2010 Under General, Javascript | Leave a Comment
If you’ve ever wished creating a desktop application was as simple as creating a Rails website you’ll be interested in Bowline. Bowline is a Ruby GUI framework. You can design and build your applications in an agile way, deploying them cross platform. Bowline lets you take your existing skills and apply them to the desktop. You can write apps in HTML/JavaScript/Ruby without having to worry about different platforms or a complex GUI API.
http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/ajax-ria/bowline-a-ruby-gui-framework
Railscasts – Pagination with AJAX
Published February 5th, 2010 Under AJAX, Javascript, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment
Learn an easy, unobtrusive way to add AJAX functionality to an existing set of pagination links using jQuery.
http://railscasts.com/episodes/174-pagination-with-ajax
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