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Rails 3.2.0.rc2 has been released!

2012-01-23T03:34:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone,
Rails 3.2.0.rc2 has been released!

What to update in your apps

Update your Gemfile to depend on rails ~> 3.2.0.rc2
Update your Gemfile to depend on sass-rails ~> 3.2.3
Start moving any remaining Rails 2.3-style vendor/plugins/*. These are finally deprecated!

Extract your vendor/plugins to their own gems and bundle them in your Gemfile. If they're tiny, not worthy of the own gem, fold it into your app as lib/myplugin/* and config/initializers/myplugin.rb.

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Ruby on Rails Developer for Dynamic Web Applications

2012-01-16T20:52:00.000-08:00

Applications development has actively adopted open source software, the new development platform and its related technologies. Performance and scalability have achieved newer, higher standards with powerful and rapid development platforms such as Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails is one such framework for rapid application development. Ruby is an object oriented programming language. Rails, built in the Ruby language, is a comprehensive open source framework for developing database supported business applications, versatile mobile applications and dynamic websites using the model view controller (MVC) architecture.

The need for business development tools has led many Ruby on Rails development companies to produce sophisticated programs to help businesses deploy impressive and highly functional applications.

Rails development environment helps the Ruby on Rails developer to design and build complete, powerful applications with rich functionality and interactivity. With the flexibility it provides, Ruby on Rails is well suited for ecommerce development, content management, collaboration and online communities (social networking). Rails works well with a wide range of servers and databases to deploy effective business solutions.

Ruby on Rails development includes the MVC architecture to separate data from logic. Data handling is vastly simplified with the database access library in Rails. The Rails framework includes a large number of Ajax libraries that it uses to generate Ajax code and the required Java script.

The Ruby on rails programmer can customize Ruby on Rails packages. The Ruby on Rails developer adds plug-ins and extends the functionalities of these packages.

A Ruby on Rails development company has expertise in RoR Apps for Mobile, iPhone applications using Ruby on Rails, Ruby on Rails programs for mobile, RoR apps programming, Ruby on Rails application development, Ruby on Rails Programming and RoR software development.

Ruby on Rails development companies help develop database driven business applications. Flickr is one such photo sharing application developed. A ruby on rails developer can design effective and logical applications. Database driven applications share a common set of parameters. The Ruby on Rails code connects an application to its database. Rails scaffolding technology creates the skeleton application containing the model, view and controller components, with the controller performing all the actions of the application.

A Ruby on Rails developer provides object oriented and component based business application development services. Ruby on rails development companies provide Ruby on Rails developers, Ruby programmers and Rails experts.

Ruby on Rails is a fully developed web framework that allows a Ruby on rails programmer to create a fully functional application on a single program. Ruby on Rails offers the full version as free open source software. Being open source, Ruby on Rails is constantly worked on and improved by the active Ruby on rails programmer community.

Ruby on Rails facilitates agile development much more than other technologies like PHP. A Ruby on Rails development company provides services including:

· Ruby on Rails Installation

· Ruby on Rails technology solutions

· Ruby on Rails Upgrades

· Complete Ruby on Rails application deployment

· Ruby on Rails CMS (Rails Content Management System)

· Ruby on Rails Customization to business needs

· Ruby on Rails Maintenance

· Ruby on Rails Consultation

· Performance tuning and scaling

Content Management Systems (CMS) under

In Rails CMS, the Admin section can be focused for targeted design of the applications. Defining new page elements and common features such as RSS, Atom, Tag clouds, overlay, file management, API is highly simplified. RoR CMS provides flexible solutions with the final output depending on the user’s choice – no pre-formatting is mandatory. Image cropping/ resizing, multi-language support, high usability, a sortable tree-based Admin interface, layout editor, scaffold template are all created. Expert Ruby onrails programmers custom design applications to perfection, to suit an individual or an enterprise and a best fit for any kind of business application. The Rails architecture is widely used and is most preferred for development of CMS, eCommerce, web portals, enterprise collaboration and community/ social networking applications.

A Ruby on Rails developers can speed up the development process to a large extent with Rails providing a rapid and easy development environment along with high quality and reliability. Compared to other programming languages, Ruby needs fewer lines of code to achieve the same results – speeding up development of database driven business applications.

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Magento Preview Version CE 1.7.0.0-alpha1 - Now Available!

2012-01-13T02:53:00.000-08:00

Magento announced the availability of Magento Preview Version CE 1.7.0.0-alpha1.

As this is a preview version it is NOT recommended in any way to be used in a production environment (more information about preview releases and the community edition release process can be found in this blog post). This release is available for upgrade through the Connect Manager, to download or via SVN.

Some of the new features and improvements in this release include:

New and improved layered navigation price bucket algorithm
Captcha functionality added to some of the forms
Base prices based on customer groups
Auto generation of multiple coupon codes for a price rule
System backup and rollback functionality
VAT ID Validation
Support for DHL Europe
Indexers refactoring
Redesigned Mobile theme
And much more...

To see a full list of features and fixed issues please visit our release notes page. Diff files are available here.

Please report all issues with this release in the bug tracker.

DCKAP has an experienced and trained team of Magento eCommerce developers, both onsite and offshore. Our offshore development team for Magento is based in Chennai, India and our onsite Magento developers are located in the US. We have done development and installation of numerous Magento applications.

Ruby on Rails Developers Build Business Solutions

2012-01-10T20:34:00.000-08:00

Good news is that reliable and proven open-source frameworks are available for developing effective solutions that help in timely leveraging of all opportunities and robustly meeting all new market challenges, optimize every customer-facing process, enhance business competitiveness and brand image.

Ruby on Rails Development Platform

The Ruby on Rails development platform offers:
•   Cutting-edge features for business functionality
•   Communication with Ruby modules for interaction
•   User interface with intuitive behavior
•   Excellent ease of use
•   Facility to integrate and interface with other business systems
•   Facility to customize to specific and demanding requirements
•   Implements best practices in online solution design

Ruby on Rails Business Applications

Ruby on Rails programmers can build specialized features in Ruby on Rails applications for improved business returns and customer satisfaction levels.

Features in Ruby on Rails provide facilities to develop suitable business applications with online merchandising features. Rails experts can design powerful functionality for large enterprise systems or optimized solutions for small and medium businesses.

It does not always need a team of Ruby on Rails developers to handle Ruby on Rails applications as they are specially designed for the business user. It is possible for a skilled ruby on rails programmer to incorporate sophisticated business logic.

An experienced ruby on rails developer can design special promotions targeted to specific customer profiles. Ruby on Rails programmers develop application features to generate up-sell and cross-sell scenarios according to a customer's buying habits. Rails programmers design solutions to create automatic inventory control processes according to real-time trends in product demand.

Ruby on rails programmers design features in Ruby on Rails applications to generate activity reports on multiple products lines and stock keeping units across multiple business functions in multiple formats.

Ruby Programmers can develop business applications with

•   Ordering, Inventory Management & Fulfillment Features
•   Customer Behavior Driven Marketing
•   Customer Support Tools
•   Various Payment Processing Options
•   Communication, Interaction And Integration With Other Modules/ Systems
•   Sophisticated Reporting
•   Multi-Language, Multi-Region, Multi-Currency Features

Powerful Marketing Content in Ruby on Rails Business Applications

Ruby on Rails programmers can be design applications to implement creative content, backed by a full-fledged enterprise class content management system.

Ruby on Rails Developers can build suitable online content for value enhancement and high impact. A Ruby on Rails programmer builds applications that can provide powerful content management tools for intelligent and efficient deployment of business and marketing content.

Ruby on Rails developers can design business solutions with easy, template-driven user interface to manage content, including e-commerce catalogs and marketing communications. Rails development brings powerful features like personalized content, defining editing rights, expiration period for content and automatic updates to content.

Ruby on Rails programmers design applications to ensure that content is delivered to the right target in the right format at the right time from a centralized console. Rails development includes essential and highly useful features for editorial control, including automated content routing to let managers approve content, permission-based access to ensure that only certain people edit certain sections of the site and administrator overrides enabling senior editors to make changes directly to the site.

Ruby on Rails development experts can configure the solution to utilize real-time data from different sources to eliminate manually maintaining information pages for customers, employees and business partners.

With expert Ruby on Rails application development, it is possible to define when a piece of content should go live or be removed from the site. The system can also be configured to automatically remove or move down content when new content is added. These updates can be configured to cascade through the website.

Ruby on Rails development platform provides the facilities to develop applications with multiple language integration for content for easy management of content in any of several languages.

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Rails 3.2 RC1

2012-01-03T01:37:00.000-08:00

Once you’ve boarded the Rails train, you just know that every stop along the way is going to be a good time. This release candidate is no different and we’ve packed it with loving goodies without making upgrading a hassle.

Faster dev mode & routing
The most noticeable new feature is that development mode got a ton and a half faster. Inspired by Active Reload, we now only reload classes from files you’ve actually changed. The difference is dramatic on a larger application.
Route recognition also got a bunch faster thanks to the new Journey engine and we made linking much faster as well (especially apparent when you’re having 100+ links on a single page).

Explain queries
We’ve added a quick and easy way to explain quieries generated by ARel. In the console, you can run something like puts Person.active.limit(5).explain and you’ll get the query ARel produces explained (so you can easily see whether its using the right indexes). There’s even a default threshold in development mode where if a query takes more than half a second to run, it’s automatically explained inline—how about that!

Tagged logger
When you’re running a multi-user, multi-account application, it’s a great help to be able to filter the log by who did what.
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Magento Developers Make Batch Import / Export of Data Super Easy

2011-12-29T22:12:00.000-08:00

Magento 1.5 comes with a new core module called ImportExport that is fast. Using the import/export tool one can imports products en masse. It is easier when adding, say, fifty products all at once – create a csv or xml file with the required fields from the database and import the products. Conversely, you can retrieve a csv or xml file through export.

Export also lets you export all the products. Say, when moving a website or to reinstall/ upgrade a website.

Apart from using import to update existing products, magento developers can create new ones

The flexibility offered in the interface means it can be used to communicate with the outside world, including legacy systems, third party applications, price aggregators, external order sources, fulfillment systems, accounting, etc.

The new import/export module is faster

Import or export is a for all purposes, just a transfer between one medium and another, loading data from one resource, applying alterations / reformatting, and saving to another resource – database and local file, ftp server and database, parsed html page and Excel spreadsheet, Google Spreadsheet and catalog, and so on.

External resources can generally be one of the following:
• Local files
• ftp, sftp servers
• Database tables
• Soap services
• Standard input / output
• http interface
• html source
• Google Spreadsheets
• Custom resources such as specialized db interface, cache repository, etc.

A Magento Developer can import and export essentially anything

Import / Export in Magento includes:
• Adding and/or editing batched product data via a file (MS-EXCEL, CSV and Tab-Separated values)
• customer batch export
• Batch export any type of data in any implemented format and import back after changes
• Data export for pricing aggregators (shopping.com, priceGrabber, bizrate …); automatically ftp the files.
• Data import and integration with third party ERP / inventory management / accounting applications (SAP, Great Plains, MAS 90/2000, Oracle, Netsuite, Quickbooks, Peachtree …)
• Integration with third party CRM solutions (SugarCRM, SalesLogix, Salesforce.com, ACT …)
• Integration with order management applications and EDI interfaces
• Fetching or publishing RSS/Atom feeds such as new products, special prices, product availability, order status, etc.
• Add/edit/remove products using the import/export tool
• Automatically import simple grouped and configurable products
• Import Customers with csv file
• Import Manufacturers
• index
• Magento Attribute Reference Card
• Stock Level Import Script
• Use Magento connect to export products to VTiger

It also imports configurable products, custom product options, multiple categories & multiple images, etc.

DCKAP has an experienced and trained team of Magento eCommerce developers, both onsite and offshore. Our offshore development team for Magento is based in Chennai, India and our onsite Magento developers are located in the US. We have done development and installation of numerous Magento applications.

Ruby on Rails: 3.2 RC1 Released, 4.0 Will Drop Ruby 1.8.7

2011-12-26T03:32:00.000-08:00

The Ruby on Rails team announced the first release candidate of Rails 3.2 just in time for Christmas. After 3.2, the next major release of Rails will be 4.0.

Rails 3.2 introduces a hand full of new features and many small improvements. The most notable new feature that will affect all users is the faster development mode. According to the detailed change log, this will "speed up development by only reloading classes if dependencies files changed", compared to the current behavior where Rails reloads classes on every request. If you want a similar feature for previous Rails versions, you can try the ActiveReload plug-in.

If you're fighting performance problems due to inefficient database queries, the new explain feature might help you locate the problem. Arel now offers an explain method that shows the result of running EXPLAIN on the generated query. This works with the sqlite3, mysql2, and postgresql adapters. When Rails discovers a slow query (default is 0.5 seconds), it will even automatically run explain and show you the results.

Other new features include a simple key/value store extension for Active Record, and a tagged logger that lets you add custom tags to the log. See the detailed change log for a complete overview over all changes.
After the 3.2 release, development will concentrate on the 4.0 release, which is tentatively scheduled for summer 2012. DHH explains why they're jumping to the next major number:

There’s not a lot of details about what we’re going to include in Rails 4.0 yet as the primary purpose for bumping the major version number is to drop Ruby 1.8.7 support. But unlike Rails 3.0, we intend for it to be a much smoother transition.

Dropping 1.8.7 might seem hard on the first glance, but the Ruby team itself is also moving away from 1.8: "We continue to provide normal maintenance for 1.8.7 as usual, until June 2012. [..] After that we stop bugfixes. We still provide security fixes until June 2013, in case you are still using 1.8.7. We will no longer support 1.8.7 in all senses after June 2013". So unless someone else steps up and continues maintaining it (like Engine Yard did with Ruby 1.8.6), it's time to finally move on to Ruby 1.9 or one of the alternative implementations.
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Rails/master is now 4.0.0.beta

2011-12-22T21:58:00.000-08:00

The forthcoming 3.2.x release series will be the last branch of Rails that supports Ruby 1.8.7. There’s a new 3-2-stable branch in git to track the changes we need until 3.2.0 final is release and for managing point releases after that.

So for now you should stop floating on rails/master if your application is not compatible with Ruby 1.9.3. We have updated the version numbers to indicate this backwards incompatibility to be 4.0.0.beta. This doesn’t mean that 4.0 is anywhere close to being released, mind you. We’re simply doing this now because we’re dropping support for Ruby 1.8.7 in rails/master and people should know what’s up.

Major versions of Rails has been on about 2-year release cycle since 1.0 (released in 2005, followed by 2.0 in 2007, followed by 3.0 in 2010) and we intend to continue this pattern. The current internal target for Rails 4.0 is sometime in the Summer of 2012 — but we have blown every major release estimate in the past, so don’t bet your farm on it.

There’s not a lot of details about what we’re going to include in Rails 4.0 yet as the primary purpose for bumping the major version number is to drop Ruby 1.8.7 support. But unlike Rails 3.0, we intend for it to be a much smoother transition. The intention is not for this to be a REWRITE EVERYTHING release in the same way 3.0 was to some extent.

But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. First mission is to get Rails 3.2 out!
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How to Create a Simple Video Game with JRuby

2011-12-15T04:14:00.000-08:00

Ruby isn't known for its game development chops despite having a handful of interesting libraries suited to it. Java, on the other hand, has a thriving and popular game development scene flooded with powerful libraries, tutorials and forums. Can we drag some of Java's thunder kicking and screaming over to the world of Ruby? Yep! - thanks to JRuby. Let's run through the steps to build a simple 'bat and ball' game now.

The Technologies We'll Be Using

JRuby

If you're part of the "meh, JRuby" brigade, suspend your disbelief for a minute. JRuby is easy to install, easy to use, and isn't going to trample all over your system or suck up all your memory. It will be OK!

One of JRuby's killer features is its ability to use Java libraries and generally dwell as a first class citizen on the JVM. JRuby lets us use performant Java powered game development libraries in a Rubyesque way, lean on Java-based tutorials, and basically have our cake and eat it too.

To install JRuby, I recommend RVM (Ruby Version Manager). I think the JRuby core team prefer you to use their own installer but rvm install jruby has always proven quick and effective for me. Once you get it installed, rvm use jruby and you're done.
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WordPress 3.3 “Sonny”

2011-12-13T02:58:00.000-08:00

The latest and greatest version of the WordPress software — 3.3, named “Sonny” in honor of the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt — is immediately available for download or update inside your WordPress dashboard.

WordPress has had over 65 million downloads since version 3.0 was released, and in this third major iteration we’ve added significant polish around the new user experience, navigation, uploading, and imports. Check out this short video that summarizes the things we think you’ll find are the cat’s pajamas:

For Users

Experienced users will appreciate the new drag-and-drop uploader, hover menus for the navigation, the new toolbar, improved co-editing support, and the new Tumblr importer. We’ve also been thinking a ton about what the WordPress experience is like for people completely new to the software. Version 3.3 has significant improvements there with pointer tips for new features included in each update, a friendly welcome message for first-time users, and revamped help tabs throughout the interface. Finally we’ve improved the dashboard experience on the iPad and other tablets with better touch support.

For Developers

There is a ton of candy for developers as well. I’d recommend starting your exploration with the new editor API, new jQuery version, better ways to hook into the help screens, more performant post-slug-only permalinks, and of course the entire list of improvements on the Codex and in Trac.

Roll the Credits

The Credits tab on the new About WordPress screen in the WordPress dashboard provides recognition for contributors to each release, but we like to thank them here as well.

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WordPress 3.3 Release Candidate 2

2011-12-09T02:01:00.000-08:00

The second release candidate for WordPress 3.3 is now available!

As the first release candidate was well-received, we think we’re really close to a final release. Primarily, we’ve ensured that new toolbar (the admin bar in 3.2) has a consistent appearance across all browsers, and the API for developers is now final. You can check our bug tracker for the complete list of changes.

Plugin and theme authors, please test your plugins and themes now, so that if there is a compatibility issue, we can figure it out before the final release. On our development blog, we’ve published a number of posts that explain important things you need to know as you prepare for WordPress 3.3.

If you haven’t tested WordPress 3.3 yet, now is the time — please though, not on your live site unless you’re adventurous. Once you install RC2, you can visit About WordPress page (hover over the WordPress logo in the top left) to see an overview of what’s to come in WordPress 3.3 (and what to test, of course).

If you think you’ve found a bug, you can post to the Alpha/Beta area in the support forums. Or, if you’re comfortable writing a reproducible bug report, file one on WordPress Trac. Known issues that crop up will be listed here.

Enjoy!

To test WordPress 3.3, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you’ll want “bleeding edge nightlies”). Or you can download the release candidate here (zip).

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Magento Commerce Developers build Enterprise & Mobile Apps

2011-12-07T22:08:00.000-08:00

Magento is a feature-rich eCommerce platform built on open-source technology that gives online merchants flexibility and control over the look, content and functionality of their eCommerce store. Magento's intuitive administration interface features powerful marketing, search engine optimization and catalog-management tools for sites tailored to unique business needs. The Magento eCommerce solution is designed for scalability.

Magento professional open source eCommerce platform has an intuitive interface and comes with powerful marketing and catalogue management capabilities. Magento is optimized to give customers a rich online shopping experience. Designed for scalability, Magento is the proven eCommerce solution for merchants of any size and any business.

Magento eCommerce Development is the preferred option for creating dynamic ecommerce solutions Magento eCommerce Development delivers the best shopping cart solutions

Magento Development
Magento developers are equipped with the technical resources to build complete online shopping solutions with fully customizable shopping cart system powered by Magento.

The platform also delivers other advantages, for instance, promoting and resources, web optimization, catalog management, product or service searching, shipping and delivery, settlement, checkout, m-commerce and many others. Based on the requirements of the businesses, Magento commerce developers personalize and accomplish strikes on the internet site. Magento is preferred as it is inexpensive, lowers vendor-lock in time, and presents easy plug-in and compatibility with other third party applications.

A Magento programmer can also develop mobile-optimized editions of web applications, for those on the move. Mobile editions can with mobile internet browsers can feature a full web-site directory or a selection of products customized for mobile consumers. This is significant, as conversion through mobile phone is steadily on the rise.

Magento Programmer Services
Backed by expertise and rich experience, Magento developers and Magento programmers offer the full range of Magento services. A well qualified and experienced Magento programmer can implement and customize your Magento store. An expert Magento team has competent Magento programmers with experience in all the features of Magento and Magento designers for rendering a captivating visual appeal to your Magento store. An expert Magento developer can provide you impressive Magento website designs from skilled, talented hands.

• Creative Store Designing
• Design Implementation with Magento
• Magento Store maintenance
• Magento Customization
• Magento Migration

Best Shop System in the German Market
Germany's leading e-Business open source and web technologies print magazine T3n conferred on Magento the coveted "Best Shop System" award in Hanover for the most innovative and pioneering products, projects and services. Germany has one of the most developed eCommerce markets in Europe and is home to a very large and growing Magento community. Magento's mission is to empower the eCommerce ecosystem for success.

Magento Enterprise Premium for Big Business
Magento launched the Enterprise Premium package tailored specifically for large-scale eCommerce implementations that need the scale, expertise and support to run high volume business. Magento Enterprise Premium comprises of multiple Magento Enterprise licenses, Platinum level SLA Magento support, Magento expert consulting and a training course. Merchants get the advantage of the best-in-class features of Magento Enterprise, such as multi-store fronts with a single admin interface, persistent shopping cart, RMA, private sales, marketing and merchandising tools and more, all with the added support, consulting, training and scalability to meet the needs of eCommerce business.

DCKAP has an experienced and trained team of Magento eCommerce developers, both onsite and offshore. Design services specializing in custom Magento development from Magento developer, Magento programmers, Magento programmer, Magento developers, Magento commerce developer, Magento commerce developers, Magento commerce programmer, Magento commerce programmers.

WordPress 3.3 Release Candidate 1

2011-12-05T19:19:00.000-08:00

Release Candidate stage means we think we’re done and are about ready to launch this version, but are doing one last check before we officially call it. So take a look, and as always, please check your themes and plugins for compatibility if you’re a developer.

Stayed up late tonight,
Hammering toward RC1.
Now with more icons!

Download WordPress 3.3 Release Candidate 1.

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Ruby on Rails for Web & Mobile Applications

2011-12-02T01:46:00.001-08:00

Web development and web application development have taken increasingly to open source software, the web platform and its related technologies over the past several years now. Both performance and scalability have acquired newer, higher norms with Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails, built from the Basecamp project by David Heinemeier Hansson, is a framework for rapid web application development. An object oriented programming language, Ruby has taken the concept from Smalltalk, ease of use from Python and flow from Pearl. Rails is a comprehensive open source framework for developing database supported web applications and dynamic websites using the model view controller (MVC) architecture.

With a database and web server combined with the Rails web development environment, a Ruby on Rails developer can build simple complete web applications with rich functionality and interactivity.

Because of the flexibility it provides, Ruby on Rails is well suited for ecommerce development, content management, collaboration and online communities (social networking). Rails works well with a wide range of web servers and databases making it easy to deploy web solutions.

The main features of Ruby on Rails (RoR) development include a Model View Controller (MVC) architecture that separates data from logic. The Rails database access library simplifies data handling. The Rails framework consists of extensive AJAX libraries. Ruby uses this library to generate AJAX code and the required Java script is automatically generated.

The Ruby on Rails framework includes the following packages:

ActiveRecord, ActiveResource (Active Web Service Package), ActionPack, Active Support, ActionMailer.

The Ruby on Rails programmer can customize these packages by adding plug-ins. Ruby on Rails programmers can also extend the existing functionalities of these packages.

Ruby on Rails development companies help develop database driven web applications. Flickr is an example of a web application developed for sharing photos on web. Ruby on rails developers can design simple and logical web applications. Database driven websites share a common set of parameters. Rails handles the code for connecting an application to its database. MVC for application development separates data from logic. The scaffolding technology of the Rails framework creates the skeleton application that contains model, view and controller components. The controller performs all the actions of the application.

Ruby on Rails development is used by the Ruby on Rails developer for providing object oriented and component based web application development services. Ruby on rails development companies provide Ruby on Rails developers, Ruby programmers and Rails experts.

The need for web development tools has led many companies to produce sophisticated tools to help the Ruby on Rails programmer create and deploy impressive and highly functional web sites.

Ruby on Rails is a fully developed web frameworks that allow programmers to create a fully functional web site using one program. Ruby on Rails offers a full version on the free open source space. Ruby on Rails being open source, it is constantly worked on and improved by Ruby on Rails programmers to improving and enhancing its features and making it easier to use.

Ruby on Rails also allows more agile development in comparison to other technologies such as PHP.

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JRuby 1.6.5 Released

2011-11-29T03:24:00.000-08:00

The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 1.6.5.

Homepage: http://www.jruby.org/
Download: http://www.jruby.org/download

The primary goal of the 1.6.x series is to round out our 1.9 support by fixing any reported incompatibilities. Of course, as with any JRuby release, we will continue fixing any found incompatibilities and also improve performance. All users of 1.6.4 (and lower) are encouraged to upgrade to 1.6.5.

Notable Changes:

Many –1.9 encoding issues resolved
.jrubyrc support for storing convenient execution options
New cext.enabled property to turn off only C extentions but not native support
C extension support now uses less memory
Updated to Rubygems 1.8.9
-rjruby/thread_dump adds a USR2 Ruby thread dumper
Improved peformance interacting directly with Java Maps
Improved fiber performance and support for JVM coroutines
Improved zlib support
36 Issues resolved

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WordPress 3.3 Beta 4 Available Now

2011-11-25T02:43:00.000-08:00

The march toward 3.3 continues!

With all our major tickets closed, we are very close to a release candidate. In Beta 4 we’ve fixed a bunch of bugs, cleaned up the UI, added real text in some of the screens that still had placeholder text in Beta 3 (post-update screen, the Dashboard welcome area, new feature pointers), and generally tightened things up. We updated to jQuery 1.7.1 and addressed a LOT of bugs.

If you are a plugin or theme developer (or distributor), please test against Beta 4 to ensure there are no issues.

If you find any problems, please report them as usual. Many thanks!

Thought 3 was the last?
Ha ha! Beta 4 is here –
Better get testing!

Download WordPress 3.3 Beta 4

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Pentaho has Business Rules Integration Built into it

2011-11-23T01:07:00.000-08:00

Consider this: Often the solution to a business problem is a process that includes Business Intelligence. Therefore, the Business Intelligence, by itself, is not the solution to the problem. If Business Intelligence is part of the process, the Business Intelligence tools are, unavoidably, also part of the process. A Business Intelligence tool that does not understand processes, or how to be part of one, will be hard to integrate into the solution.

In an effort to create reports and analytical systems, customers often face a typical situation. The scenario may be different, but the basic need is always the same: a report is delivered or a particular situation is encountered in the data and something specific needs to happen – a decision to make, causes discovered, or a process started. In these cases, the information presentation, analysis and delivery is a part of a larger process. This process exists to solve the business problem: it is the solution. The Pentaho BI Framework is the first process-centric, solution-oriented Business Intelligence platform.

The Pentaho BI Platform includes a workflow engine to execute activities. This workflow engine uses a standard language, the XML Process Definition Language (XPDL), to execute the activities within the system. Say, you want to run a query to find out which departments are over budget, run a budget report for each of those departments, and finally, email each report to the department manager. This is defined in XPDL and executes as a business process. This is how all activities are run within the platform.

• The platform understands the nature of processes because everything in it is one

• The processes are defined in a standard process definition language that is externally viewable, editable, and customizable

• There is no hidden business logic

The Pentaho platform is built on processes and process definitions. When you design a system with a workflow engine as the conductor and director, every activity in the system, every step of each process and every bubble in your process diagram must be implemented as a standalone, re-usable component that can be directed to execute the activity required. This is not just an SOA – this is a Service-Implemented Architecture (SIA). Every activity in every process can be a web service because all activities execute as services, and only as services. They know no other invocation. Services are the building blocks of automated business processes.

Every process and activity in the pentaho BI Platform executes as a service. You can call a process or activity defined in the platform from a process executing in another system. Every activity in the system understands how to be part of another process.

This article is compiled for the benefit of the readers from Pentaho documentation.

XPDL has built in support for complex routing control, with added support for multiple rules engines so business logic can be integrated easily into the processes. Multiple rules engines are supported and required because it is unlikely the logic for every decision in every process can be defined easily by only one rules engine. Flexible business rules are a critical part of automated business processes.

The line between business intelligence and business processes is flexible in the pentaho BI Platform. This is because the line between business intelligence and business processes is indistinct and should be up to the user. If you have a BI platform that clearly defines the boundaries between it and the other systems, you probably have an application silo that is hard to integrate the way you need it to.

• The engine executing processes within the platform is a full-featured workflow engine

• Pentaho includes multiple rules engines

• Pentaho activities are easily integrated into other processes

• The roadmap includes manual and data entry tasks by users

To deliver a solution, you need reporting and analysis tools that support the business rules, audit report execution and delivery of information, and integrate seamlessly with a workflow system. You also need a workflow/ business process engine that handles time-based escalations, audits execution of activities within the process, and integrates with reporting and analysis tools. You also need to provide real-time and historical process performance reports.

The Pentaho BI Platform is uniquely process-centric and solution-oriented. It is process-centric because it is built ground-up to be process-based. It is solution-oriented because the solution for many business problems is a process, and the platform includes all the major components required to implement process-based solutions.

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Rails 3.1.3 has been released

2011-11-21T02:42:00.000-08:00

Rails 3.1.3 has been released. This release mainly contains fixes for regressions that popped up in 3.1.2.
Changes
Action Pack:

Downgrade sprockets to ~> 2.0.3. Using 2.1.0 caused regressions.
Fix using translate helper with a html translation which uses the :count option for pluralization.
Jon Leighton

Active Record:

Perf fix: If we're deleting all records in an association, don't add a IN(..) clause to the query. GH 3672
Jon Leighton
Fix bug with referencing other mysql databases in settablename. GH 3690
Fix performance bug with mysql databases on a server with lots of other databses. GH 3678
Christos Zisopoulos and Kenny J

Railties:

New apps should be generated with a sass-rails dependency of 3.1.5, not 3.1.5.rc.2

As ever, you can see a full list of changes on Github.

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Rails 3.1.2 has been released

2011-11-18T03:02:00.000-08:00

Rails 3.1.2 has been released. This is a patch-level release containing bug fixes and an important security fix.

Possible XSS vulnerability in the translate helper method in Ruby on Rails

There is a vulnerability in the translate helper method which may allow an attacker to insert arbitrary code into a page.

Versions Affected: 3.0.0 and later, 2.3.X in combination with the rails_xss plugin
Not Affected: Pre-3.0.0 releases, without the rails_xss plugin, did no automatic XSS escaping, so are not considered vulnerable
Fixed Versions: 3.0.11, 3.1.2

Please see the rubyonrails-security posting and the changelog item below, for more details.

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Taking WordPress to War

2011-11-15T01:59:00.000-08:00

Eleventh day of the eleventh month of the (20)eleventh year, and in several parts of the world, it is a holiday related to war. In the U.S., where I live, it is Veterans Day, which honors military veterans. In much of Europe, today is Armistice Day or Remembrance Day, commemorating the armistice signed at the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” of 1918 that ended the fighting on the Western Front in World War I.

Whether serving in the military, living in an area of unrest or attack, having friends or family in the fray, or just being human enough to think war sucks (there’s really no gentler way to say that, is there?), war impacts most people in the world today.

The mission of WordPress is to democratize publishing. Sometimes we’re fortunate enough for that to mean providing a platform for communication that helps people work toward peace in their communities and around the world. Sometimes it means providing a platform for keeping people informed and aware of the other things that are happening around the world, including the horror of wars and revolutions.

At WordCamp San Francisco in August, one of the most popular and well-respected sessions was led by Teru Kuwayama of Basetrack.org. On this day of remembrance, I thought it would be good to share the video of his presentation. Not only is it a very cool example of how WordPress can be used in unexpected ways (this is not your ~~father’s Oldsmobile~~ usual blog), it’s a reminder of how much work still needs to be done to move from war to peace. So here is Taking WordPress to War: Basetrack.org. Peace out, yo.

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WordPress 3 Ultimate Security

2011-11-11T02:06:00.000-08:00

This is a comprehensive essential guide to WordPress security written in a light style, which converts learning a really serious topic to an enjoyable read. It is packed with copy-paste solutions to security to suit all levels of security know-how. Just as WordPress is used by a broad spectrum of website owners, with varying degrees of security know-how, so WordPress 3 Ultimate Security is written to be understood by security novices and web professionals alike.

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Available WordPress 3.3 Beta 3

2011-11-09T02:27:00.000-08:00

Testers, Beta 3 is now available! You know the drill: use a test install, see what you can break, and report any bugs you find. There have been 200 commits since Beta 2, but at this point, betas are not adding new features — it’s all about fixing bugs, making things a little prettier, and editing text strings.

As always, plugin and theme authors, PLEASE test your code against the beta so you can catch any incompatibilities now rather than after your users update their WordPress installation and find bugs for you. This time we really mean it, especially if your plugin uses jQuery. We’ve now updated to jQuery 1.7 in core, so please please pretty please check your plugins and themes against beta 3.

These silly haikus –
With so many releases,
I run out of words.

Download WordPress 3.3 Beta 3 now.

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Ruby 1.9.3-p0 Released

2011-11-07T03:03:00.000-08:00

The first production-ready release of Ruby 1.9.3 is finally here with patchlevel 0's release this week. I've already covered what's new on Ruby Inside (see the link below) but this is a nice step forward for MRI and worth checking out, especially if you want faster Rails loading times.

The rapid descent of the weather towards winter is getting people to stay in and code and long may it continue given the quality of this week's releases: OmniAuth 1.0, MagLev 1.0, and Ruby 1.9.3, for starters!

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What is Ruby 2.0 and What’s New?

2011-11-04T03:11:00.000-07:00

Matz made a commit to the MRI Ruby repository bumping the trunk version from 1.9.4 to 2.0.0, marking the start of the work of implementing the long-discussed ideas for Ruby 2.0.

What is Ruby 2.0?

Ruby 2.0 is the next major version release of MRI Ruby, the de facto official Ruby implementation.
Ruby 1.9.3 is due out any time soon and Ruby 1.9.4 is under active development (it has moved to a separate branch now that trunk is 2.0.0). We recently learned that Ruby 2.0 would then follow Ruby 1.9.4.

Will Ruby 2.0 be a huge leap forward?

No. While 2.0 will include a number of syntax changes, new features and general improvements, mentioned below, it is anticipated to remain backward compatible with code written for 1.9.3 and Matz has stated that the changes are less significant than those made in the 1.8 to 1.9 jump.

The discussion surrounding Ruby 2.0's feature set spans back several years (mostly on the ruby-talk and ruby-core mailing lists) and 2.0 was initially expected to introduce significant syntax changes and not be backwards compatible. Things have changed with Ruby 1.9 moving into production (it was originally a development only version) and 2.0 being an evolution rather than a revolution.

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Score Your Rails App's Complexity Before Refactoring

2011-11-02T00:59:00.000-07:00

Every Rails developer must refactor their Rails code at some time. Ruby's dynamic nature makes it difficult for generic tools to understand what Ruby is doing though. Once you add Rails macros and metaprogramming into the mix you really need specialized tools when refactoring Ruby. In my last post I wrote about how to a generic tool called wc to find the complex code that needs to be refactored. wc's has many problems when checking Ruby code though:

it counts blank and empty lines
it counts lines with only comments
it counts only the number of lines, so each of these lines count as one even though the second is much more complex.

To overcome wc's limitations, we need to use a tool that is built specifically for evaluating the complexity of Ruby code.

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Ruby 2.0 Release Schedule Announced on 2013!

2011-10-28T03:33:00.000-07:00

Today, Yusuke Endoh posted to the ruby-core mailing list noting that matz has admitted him as a Ruby 2.0 "release manager" and as part of his work, he has come up with a tentative schedule for Ruby 2.0's release. You can read the full post here.

The short version of the timeline?

August 2012: 'Big feature' freeze. Any proposals and specs for 'major features' should be wrapped up for late August 2012 otherwise they will be deferred.
October 2012: Feature freeze. A more conventional feature freeze.
February 2013: 2.0 Release. The final version of 2.0 would, hopefully, be released.

A release in February 2013 would have historical significance by being the 20th anniversary of Ruby's creation. Note that Yusuke corrected the date to February 24, 2013 in a later posting.
Another note, confirming what Yugui had already said, is that Ruby 2.0 is to be "100% compatible" with Ruby 1.9.3.

If you want to learn more about Ruby 2.0, I recommend Ruby Inside's last post, Ruby 2.0 Implementation Work Begins: What is Ruby 2.0 and What’s New? where I summarized the anticipated new features in Ruby 2.0.

Thanks to Ruby guru Steve Klabnik for the heads up on this news. Follow him on Twitter, it's worth it.

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WordPress 3.3 Beta 2

2011-10-21T03:34:00.000-07:00

Changes since Beta 1:

Updated the Blue theme
Fixed IE7 and RTL support
Improved flyout menu styling and fixed several glitches
Finished the Pointers implementation
Landed the dashboard Welcome box for new installs
Improved contextual help styling
Tweaked the admin bar a little more
Fixed a bunch of bugs

Consult the full change log for details, and see the Beta 1 announcement for information on how to help test Beta 2.

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The iPhone Helpers Plugin for Rails 3.x

2011-10-20T00:39:00.000-07:00

Picking the name of a new library or plugin is stressful. You could go too informal and call your library something like authgasm (now authlogic) or too formal and call it "Dull Authentication Plugin for Enterprises 1.0." It's the geek equivalent of calling your kid Butterfly or Jane. Fair enough, but what if you just called your daughter Kid or Girl? That's the approach taken by the author of the snappily named rails-iphone-helpers.

Rails-iphone-helpers is a Rails plugin that provides helper methods to produce iPhone-specific (or iOS, more precisely) HTML.

This library solves a simple problem, but few people have the patience or interest in memorizing the underlying code to set viewpoint sizes, scaling options, iOS icons, or iOS splash image settings. With rails-iphone-helpers, it all becomes structured and simple.. what more could you want from a plugin, really?

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WordPress 3.3 Beta 1

2011-10-17T02:08:00.000-07:00

WordPress 3.3 is ready for beta testers.

As always, this is software still in development and we don’t recommend that you run it on a production site — set up a test site just to play with the new version. If you break it (find a bug), please report it, and if you’re a developer, try to help us fix it.

If all goes well, we hope to release WordPress 3.3 by the end of November. The more help we get with testing and fixing bugs, the sooner we will be able to release the final version. If you want to be a beta tester, you should check out the Codex article on how to report bugs.

Here’s some of what’s new:

Media uploader
Improved admin bar
Fly out admin menus

Remember, if you find something you think is a bug, report it! You can bring it up in the alpha/beta forum, you can email it to the wp-testers list, or if you’ve confirmed that other people are experiencing the same bug, you can report it on the WordPress Core Trac. (We recommend starting in the forum or on the mailing list.)

Theme and plugin authors, if you haven’t been following the 3.3 development cycle, please start now so that you can update your themes and plugins to be compatible with the newest version of WordPress.

Download WordPress 3.3 Beta 1

And now, haiku.
Features almost done…
3.3 at Beta 1.
Test it now — have fun!

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The Ruby on Rails API Switches to SDoc

2011-10-12T05:07:00.000-07:00

The Ruby on Rails API is switching to SDoc starting with 3.1.
SDoc is a RDoc format created by Володя Колесников (@voloko) that has been powering railsapi.com for a long time.
Among other things, SDoc provides a search box with fuzzy match completion, tree browsing, keyboard navigation, and a really nice template.
You can already see the upgrade in the edge API.

We'd like to thank very much Володя for his work updating SDoc for the official API. Thanks man!

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Rails 3.1.1 has been released!

2011-10-10T03:16:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone,
Rails 3.1.1 has been released. This release requires at least sass-rails 3.1.4

Changes

ActionMailer

No changes

ActionPack

stylesheetlinktag('/stylesheets/application') and similar helpers doesn't throw Sprockets::FileOutsidePaths exception anymore [Santiago Pastorino]
Ensure defaultassethost_protocol is respected, closes #2980. [José Valim]
Changing rake db:schema:dump to run :environment as well as :load_config, as running :load_config alone will lead to the dumper being run without including extensions such as those included in foreigner and spatial_adapter.
This reverses a change made here: https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/5df72a238e9fcb18daf6ab6e6dc9051c9106d7bb#L0L324

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Rails 3.1.0 Released

2011-09-13T23:31:00.000-07:00

RubyOnRails has announced the release of Rails 3.1.0

On August 31, 2011, Ruby on Rails announced the release of Rails 3.1.0.

Aaron P in his blog thinks Rails 3.1.0 is the best release of Rails to date, and asks everyone to continue to create amazing things with this framework. He has highlighted the major changes in Rails 3.1.0.

ActionPack

ActionPack has been updated to include the new asset pipeline. Please see the rails guides on the asset pipeline.
Streaming response support has been added. This feature allows you to stream templates to the user before processing has actually finished. See the Rails Guides, or documentation in ActionController::Metal::Streaming for more information. Middleware have been refactored to support this feature.
RJS has been extracted to a gem.

ActiveModel

attr_accessible and friends now accepts :as as option to specify a role
Added ActiveModel::SecurePassword to encapsulate dead-simple password usage with BCrypt encryption and salting.

ActiveRecord

Prepared statement caches have been integrated. ActiveRecord::Base#create and simple finders will use a prepared statement and cache for more performant inserts and selects.
Associations have been refactored for greater simplicity and maintainability.
default_scope can take any object that responds to call.
PostgreSQL adapter only supports PostgreSQL version 8.2 and higher.
Migrations use instance methods rather than class methods. Rather than defining a self.up method, you should define an instance method up.
Migrations are reversible. When a new migration is generated, the migration will contain one method called change. Database changes made in this method will automatically know how to reverse themselves. For more information, see the documentation for ActiveRecord::Migration and ActiveRecord::Migration::CommandRecorder.
When a model is generated, add_index is added by default for belongs_to or references columns.

ActiveResource

The default format has been changed to JSON for all requests. If you want to continue to use XML you will need to set self.format = :xml in the class.

ActiveSupport

ActiveSupport::BufferedLogger set log encoding to BINARY, but still use text mode to output portable newlines.
Add Object#in? to test if an object is included in another object.
ActiveSupport::Dependencies::ClassCache class has been introduced for holding references to reloadable classes.
Added weeks_ago and prev_week to Date/DateTime/Time.
JSON decoding now uses the multi_json gem which also vendors a json engine called OkJson. The yaml backend has been removed in favor of OkJson as a default engine for 1.8.x, while the built in 1.9.x json implementation will be used by default.

Railties

The default database schema file is written as UTF-8.
Rack::Sendfile middleware is used only if x_sendfile_header is present.
Add alias r for rails runner.
jQuery is the new default JavaScript library.
Added config.force_ssl configuration which loads Rack::SSL middleware and force all requests to be under HTTPS protocol

For more info
For a more detailed list of changes, please see each of the CHANGELOG files checked in to the Rails repository on github. For an even more detailed list of changes, please see the commit list between Rails 3.0.10 and 3.1.0.

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Ruby on Rails Up; Mobile, Big Data, User Engagement Define 2011

2011-08-25T03:12:00.000-07:00

Ruby on Rails Up 100%; HTML5, Android, iPad/ iPhone Rule the Roost

Aug. 25, 2011

The first annual Technology Outlook Report from agile consulting and IT staffing firm Bluewolf (www.bluewolf.com) identifies top tech trends based on IT staffing/hiring spending patterns for the past 12 months. The report highlights the emergence of mobile, big data, UI and consumerization of IT as the defining trends of 2011 with HTML5, Android Development and iPad/ iPhone, all ranked as top technologies by growth percentage.

According to Bluewolf Co-founder Michael Kirven, companies increasingly see technology and information as competitive differentiators. Kirven believes innovative companies are leveraging the trends identified in this report to become more agile, collaborative and relevant, and to attract and retain the agile workforce of the future.

Based on areas that have seen rapid, year-over-year growth, the report identified the top five tech trends for 2011.

Mobile Defined by HTML5, iPhone/ iPad and Android, mobile is remaking entire industries, with the media industry leading the pack.
User Engagement Companies increasingly see user engagement as a core value. HTML5, .NET, and Java are allowing UX systems to be applied more broadly to back-end legacy systems and mobile applications.
Big Data IT is breaking deep into the data, providing new streams of insights.
Consumerization of IT IT pros expect workplaces to reflect consumer innovations, and "many-to-many" interaction is becoming the norm.
Cloud Computing The big players are dominated by emerging technologies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Apps, as well as more established solutions such as Salesforce.

Additionally, the report identifies technologies that have seen the most and least overall growth nationally in the following categories:

Mobile: HTML5, Android Development and iPhone/ iPad increased by 200+%; Blackberry and Windows Mobile dropped by 50+%.
Business Intelligence: Cognos and Informatica increased by 100+%; Crystal Reports and Business Objects remained steady within 25%.
ERP: SAP increased by 100+%; JD Edwards remained steady within 25%.
CMS: Drupal and TeamSite increased by 100+%; Vignette dropped by 50+%.
Operating System: Linux (all) increased by 200+%; Unix (all), Windows and Mac remained steady within 25%.
Development Language: PHP and Ruby on Rails increased by 100+%; Python/ Perl dropped by 50+%.
Web Front End: UI Design increased by 100+% while Flash, Flex, and ActionScript dropped by 50+%.
Database: MySQL and HBase increased by 100+% while DB2 dropped by 50+%.
Cloud: Eloqua, Marketo, Salesforce and Google Apps increased by 100+%; AWS increased by 50+%.

Adapted from Bluewolf Annual Tech Outlook Identifies Top Trends in IT, By Bluewolf, Aug. 22, 2011 - 6:11 am

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WordCamp SF Aug12-14 -- Highlights

2011-08-18T00:13:00.000-07:00

Fifth Annual WordCamp San Francisco Highlights Rapid Growth, Announces Developer Survey Results
Bluehost, DreamHost and Automattic are “Bling Bling” Supporters

The fifth annual WordCamp San Francisco was held at the Mission Bay Conference Center from Friday, August 12 through Sunday, August 14. WordCamp San Francisco is the official annual conference of the WordPress open source project.

The event was organized into multiple tracks per audience:

first-time user workshop
professional & large-scale implementations
developers & designers
bloggers & content creators

WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg also announced the results of the 2011 developer survey.

STATE OF THE WORD KEYNOTE
Each year at WordPress San Francisco, Mullenweg presents a “State of the Word” keynote that recaps the past year’s accomplishments, and provides a glimpse into future releases.

Highlights

“22 of every 100 active domains created in the U.S. are running WordPress.”
“WordPress 3.2, released in July 2011, had 500,000 downloads in the first two days, representing the fastest upgrade velocity ever.”
“WordPress now has 15,000 plugins and 200 million plugin downloads.”
“14.7 percent of the top million websites in the world use WordPress.” (source: W3Techs)
“You are not customers of Facebook and Twitter… you are the product. The advertisers are the client.”
“Being involved with the WordPress core is one of the most rewarding experiences for a developer on the web right now."
“One of my dreams is for WordPress to auto-update like Chrome. Versions are so archaic.”
“I obsess about every release and every feature.”

Mullenweg’s keynote is now available at WordPress TV. Video from all of the sessions will be posted there in coming weeks.

WORDPRESS DEVELOPER SURVEY
This year WordPress commissioned its first-ever developer survey, which ran for six weeks beginning on July 4, 2011 and generated responses from 18,000 users worldwide.

Results:

2,800 survey respondents are making a living using WordPress.
53% of the respondents are working as WordPress developers, 36% of which are self-employed.
The 6,800 self-employed developers have created 170,000 sites, averaging nearly 25 sites per WordPress developer.
The WordPress developer’s average hourly rate is $58.
92% of WordPress developers use WordPress as a CMS; 8% use as a blog.

Every day of the conference was sold out, with more than 1,000 total registrants. It was the highest attendee level for a WordCamp event, with U.S. and international representation including Amsterdam, Hawaii, Israel, Nepal and Romania. Thirty percent of the attendees were women.

Bluehost, DreamHost and Automattic were this year’s “Bling Bling” supporters. Additional sponsors included Microsoft, .tv, Zemanta, Voce Communications, ServerBeach, Layered Tech, Laughing Squid, GetShopped.org, Event Expresso and A Small Orange.

Upcoming WordCamps

Los Angeles, September 10
Salt Lake City, September 10
Kobe, Japan, September 11
Cape Town, South Africa September 15

Adapted from Fifth Annual WordCamp San Francisco Highlights... Aug. 15, 2011.

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WordPress App on the Touchpad

2011-08-09T04:09:00.000-07:00

Easy to take along for most outings, making it available should a writing opportunity present itself

A portable blogging machine must be easy to carry most of the time. It doesn’t do much good if I have to leave it in the office a lot. The best blogging system is the one I have with me. The TouchPad is such a gadget, I find it easy to take along for most outings, making it available should a writing opportunity present itself.

The WordPress app on the TouchPad is very good compared to other versions, and those with a simple blog on the network will be happy. Our blogs on ZDNet are very complex and require a special backend to support this publishing environment. That usually means writing in the browser editor. This works on the TouchPad browser to a degree, but I find it falls short in handling the entire blogging process from writing to publishing.

I have settled on a method for blogging that utilizes the TouchPad as a writing machine only. I write articles using a text editor on the TouchPad, and then finalize them back at the desktop for publishing. This method works well, even better than I expected, and has benefits as a result.

TapNote for the TouchPad is a simple text editor that makes this system work well. It provides me with a blank screen for entry, which allows me to focus on what I want to say and not the vehicle for capturing it. This has turned into a great method for me as it allows my creativity to flow. It works equally well with the onscreen virtual keyboard and the Bluetooth keyboard I occasionally use. The TouchPad onscreen keyboard is really good, and I can do a lot of entry using it. When I have big articles planned, I bring the wireless keyboard along to get busy.

TapNote can automatically sync with my Dropbox account in the cloud, and this makes the process work for me. I enter a new “note” and it instantly appears in my Dropbox storage. This makes it available on every computer and gadget I use, so my work follows me as it should. TapNote saves each note to Dropbox as a simple TXT file, making it easy to incorporate into blog posts via simple copy and paste. This system works so well that I am using it more often than I anticipated.

Once I’ve written an article in TapNote while on the go, I can create a WordPress blog post at any time back in the office (or on a laptop anywhere). I bring the text into the blog editor and then edit it as usual for publishing. I have come to appreciate the extra proofreading I do on both the TouchPad and the desktop, as I catch almost all typos.

Adapted From James Kendrick, HP TouchPad as portable blogging machine, August 8, 2011

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Best WordCamp Speakers?

2011-08-01T22:31:00.000-07:00

As we complete speaker selection for the annual WordPress conference (a.k.a. WordCamp San Francisco), it’s clear that even though there were more than 200 speaker applications, many great WordCamp speakers did not apply. No fear! We will seek them out to make sure that WordCamp SF has a fantastic lineup, including people who didn’t apply (too shy? who knows?) but have wowed local crowds at previous WordCamps.

This is about as basic a survey as there is. Tell us the three best WordCamp presentations you saw in the past year or so. For each, give the presenters name, the topic (exact title not necessary) and which WordCamp it was at (important).

Example:
1. Joe Shmoe, Using the Loop, WordCamp Sheboygan 2011
2. Jane Doe, Top 5 WordPress Plugins, WordCamp La Mancha 2010
3. Lee Smith, Your First Core Patch, WordCamp Atlantis 2011

That’s it. We don’t need your name or any info at all, just your three top speaker votes. We’ll take a look at the people with the most votes, and consider them for WCSF if they’re not already in the application pool. Thanks for your help in making this year’s conference better and more WordPressy than ever.
Vote Now!
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Rails 3.1 HackFest

2011-07-31T22:25:00.000-07:00

Have you ever wanted to contribute back to Rails? This is the opportunity you've been looking for. We're organizing a Rails 3.1 Hackfest on the weekend of July 23rd and 24th!!!

GOAL

The goal of this event is to have Rails 3.1 as the most stable version as possible. So, in this event we will focus on working on 3-1-stable branch of the project.

HOW

In order to achieve this we encourage you to:

Upgrade your existing apps to Rails 3.1 and report any existing issue if it doesn't already exist
Test your favorite plugins/gems with Rails 3.1 and report any existing issue if it doesn't already exist
Review all the open issues and pull requests
- Check if issues can be reproduced
- If so provide as many details as possible (for example it's important for us to know which Rails version/s are affected. They could be 2-3-stable, 3-0-stable, 3-1-stable or master)
- If it's not possible to reproduce the issue, add a comment on github issue tracker indicating that
Provide test cases and patches for 3-1-stable blockers only (blockers will be tagged as 'blocker')
- Follow the contributing to Ruby on Rails guide
- Try to provide a failing test case (if you can't figure out the whole solution)
- Try to provide a full patch (tests, code and docs if needed)
Write documentation (guides, API), you can push modifications directly to docrails
Write blog posts about your experience using 3.1

Please note that since we are on the release candidate already, only patches for blocking issues will be accepted.

WHO

From the core team: Aaron Patterson (tenderlove), Xavier Noria (fxn) and Santiago Pastorino (spastorino), and the core contributors: Damien Mathieu (dmathieu), Prem Sichanugrist (sikachu) and Josh Kalderimis (joshk) will be around, so don't hesitate to ask whatever questions you may have.

WHEN

The weekend of July 23rd and 24th, 2011

WHERE

On IRC:
Server: irc.freenode.net Channel: #rails-contrib

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Rails 3.0.9 has been released!

2011-07-27T22:12:00.000-07:00

Hi everybody!

Rails 3.0.9 has been released! Since I am at Nordic Ruby, I will deem this Nordic Ruby Edition. ;-)
The main boogs fixed in this release are problems dealing with modifications of SafeBuffers.
gem install rails or update your Gemfile and bundle update while it's hot!

CHANGES

The major changes in this release of Rails are bug fixes surrounding modifications to SafeBuffer strings. We had places that were modifying SafeBuffers and those places raised exceptions after the security fixes in the 3.0.8 release.

We've since updated those code paths, and now we have this nice release for you today!
Please check the CHANGELOG files in each section on github for more details.
For an exhaustive list of the commits in this release, please see github.

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WordPress 3.2 Release Candidate 2

2011-07-26T23:33:00.000-07:00

Howdy! The second release candidate for WordPress 3.2 is now available. If you haven’t tested WordPress 3.2 yet, now is the time — please though, not on your live site unless you’re extra adventurous.

We’ve handled a number of issues since RC1, including additional Twenty Eleven tweaks, a new theme support option for defaulting to randomized headers, and various RTL fixes.

Plugin and theme authors, please test your plugins and themes now, so that if there is a compatibility issue, we can figure it out before the final release. Users are also encouraged to test things out. If you find problems, let your plugin/theme authors know so they can figure out the cause. If you are testing the release candidate and think you’ve found a bug, there are a few ways to let us know:

Post it to the Alpha/Beta area in the support forums or wp-testers
Join the development IRC channel and tell us live at irc.freenode.net #wordpress-dev
File a bug ticket on the WordPress Trac

To test WordPress 3.2, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you’ll want “bleeding edge nightlies”). Or you can download the release candidate here (zip).

If any known issues crop up, you’ll be able to find them here. If you’d like to know which levers to pull in your testing, check out a list of features in our Beta 1 post.

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Rails 3.1.0.rc4 has been released!

2011-07-26T00:17:00.000-07:00

I've pushed a 3.1.0.rc4. Please test it against your application against this release candidate and report any regressions to the rails core mailing list. I would like to hear your feedback, good or bad. Especially if it's good.

In two weeks, if there are no show stopping issues I will release the final version. If we do find regressions, I will publish another release candidate and we'll put another two weeks on the clock.

However, I will not wait two weeks between release candidates. I want to get the final done as quickly as possible, so I'll try to release RCs as quickly as possible.

CHANGES

Here are some of the major changes to the RC branch:

escape_javascript safebuffer fixes
json_escape safebuffer fixes
RDoc / ruby-debug conflict fixes.
arel_table is cached unless the table_name changes

For an exaustive list, please check out the commits on github.

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WordPress 3.2.1 now available

2011-07-25T01:02:00.000-07:00

After more than a million downloads of WordPress 3.2, we’re now releasing WordPress 3.2.1 into the wild. This maintenance release fixes a server incompatibility related to JSON that’s unfortunately affected some of you, as well as a few other fixes in the new dashboard design and the Twenty Eleven theme. If you’ve already updated to 3.2, then this update will be even faster than usual, thanks to the new feature in 3.2 that only updates files that have been changed, rather than replacing all the files in your installation..

For a full list of fixes, view the changelog the list of tickets. Our release haiku:

JSON, the admin
A little bit tidier
Edge cases covered

Download 3.2.1 or update now from the Dashboard → Updates menu in your site’s admin area.

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Rails 3.1.0.rc4 has been released!

2011-06-13T03:30:00.000-07:00

escape_javascript safebuffer fixes
json_escape safebuffer fixes
RDoc / ruby-debug conflict fixes.
arel_table is cached unless the table_name changes

For an exaustive list, please check out the commits on github.

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Ruby 1.9.3 Getting 36% Faster Loading Times

2011-06-06T04:24:00.000-07:00

Xavier Shay is an Australian Rubyist who shares an issue with most of us: slow loading Rails 3 apps on Ruby 1.9.2! Unlike most of us, he put together a solution for ruby-head (what I'm calling 1.9.3 but isn't technically^*) that, in my own tests, slashed 37% off the boot time of my Rails 3.0 app. He shared his work just a week ago. Awesome! But some other developments have occurred since..

^* Just because things are in ruby-head doesn't mean they'll definitely make it into Ruby 1.9.3. Pragmatically, though, ruby-head seems to have attracted the 'Ruby 1.9.3' moniker and it makes for a better headline. Just don't get too upset if, for whatever reason, it gets yanked and delayed till Ruby 2.0.. ;-))

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Rails 3.0.8.rc3

2011-06-03T04:20:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody! I've pushed Rails 3.0.8.rc3.

Hopefully this release candidate takes care of all the outstanding issues remaining. To see what has changed between 3.0.8.rc2 and 3.0.8.rc3, check out this link on github. If no regressions are found, I will release the final version 72 hours from now (Thursday, June 2nd around 1pm). Please let us know if this release candidate causes any regressions from the 3.0.7 version.

I'm still getting over my cold, so I promise that next release I will return to my normal level of excitement! ;-)

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WordCamp San Francisco Call for Speakers

2011-06-01T02:33:00.000-07:00

Tho annual WordPress conference, WordCamp San Francisco (home of the very first WordCamp), is now accepting speaker applications. Past speakers have included core WordPress developers, people building successful businesses on WordPress, popular bloggers, people from related projects and businesses…you name it. In addition to Matt Mullenweg’s annual “State of the Word” address, WCSF has played host to talks by people like Mark Jaquith, Matt Cutts, Richard Stallman, Scott Berkun, Karl Fogel, Tim Ferriss, Tara Hunt, Chris Pirillo, and John Lilly. With 3 days of content this year instead of just one, the list of speakers should be even more impressive. If you think you’d make a good addition to this year’s roster, check out the WCSF Call for Speakers.

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WordPress 3.2 Beta 2 also available

2011-05-25T21:36:00.000-07:00

In other news, our development of WordPress 3.2 development continues right on schedule. We released Beta 1 thirteen days ago, and today we’re putting out Beta 2 for your testing pleasure.

This is still beta software, so we don’t recommend that you use it on production sites. But if you’re a plugin developer, a theme developer, or a site administrator, you should be running this on your test environments and reporting any bugs you find. If you’re a WordPress user who wants to open your presents early, take advantage of WordPress’ famous 5-minute install and spin up a secondary test site. Let us know what you think!

The plan is to start putting out release candidates in early June, and to release WordPress 3.2 by the end of the month. The more you help us iron out issues during the beta period, the more likely we are to hit those dates. To misappropriate and mangle a quote from Mahatma Gandhi: “Be the punctuality you want to see in the WordPress.” In other words, test now!

Here are some of the things that changed since Beta 1:

Google Chrome Frame is now supported in the admin, if you have it installed. This is especially useful for IE 6 users (remember, IE 6 is otherwise deprecated for the admin).
The admin is less ugly in IE 7.
The blue admin color scheme has caught up to the grey one, and is ready for testing.
We are now bundling jQuery 1.6.1. You should test any JS that uses jQuery. WordPress JavaScript guru Andrew Ozz has a post with more info.

Download WordPress 3.2 Beta 2

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Rails 3.0.1 and Rails 2.3.10 Released To Counter Nested Attributes Vulnerability

2011-05-23T04:41:00.000-07:00

Michael Koziarski (a.k.a. nzkoz) has announced the simultaneous release of Rails 3.0.1 and 2.3.10. Don't get too excited - they're only very minor security releases intended to resolve a nasty bug that surfaced in 2.3.9 and 3.0.0. Upgrade if possible but if you're unsure, read on for some pointers.

The bug in question surrounds nested attributes that are accepted through the accepts_nested_attributes_for method. If you're not using this method, you're probably OK, though I have a big fat disclaimer over that (if you don't upgrade and your app gets fried, don't blame me ;-)).

If you're using 2.3.9 or 3.0.0 and are truly unable to upgrade at this point but are using nested attributes, Michael has included patches on this post. You might also appreciate the discussion on Hacker News if you want more info and insight.

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iPhone Helpers Plugin for Rails 3.x

2011-05-20T02:25:00.000-07:00

Picking the name of a new library or plugin is stressful. You could go too informal and call your library something like authgasm (now authlogic) or too formal and call it "Dull Authentication Plugin for Enterprises 1.0." It's the geek equivalent of calling your kid Butterfly or Jane. Fair enough, but what if you just called your daughter Kid or Girl? That's the approach taken by the author of the snappily named rails-iphone-helpers.

Rails-iphone-helpers is a Rails plugin that provides helper methods to produce iPhone-specific (or iOS, more precisely) HTML.

This library solves a simple problem, but few people have the patience or interest in memorizing the underlying code to set viewpoint sizes, scaling options, iOS icons, or iOS splash image settings. With rails-iphone-helpers, it all becomes structured and simple.. what more could you want from a plugin, really?

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Agile Web Development with Rails, 4th Edition

2011-05-18T04:10:00.000-07:00

Rails 3 is a major release—the changes aren’t just incremental, but structural. So we decided to follow suit. This book isn’t just a mild reworking of the previous edition to make it run with the new Rails. Instead, it’s a complete refactoring.

You’ll still find the Depot example at the front, but you’ll also find testing knitted right in. Gone are the long reference chapters—that’s what the web does best. Instead you’ll find more targeted information on all the aspects of Rails that you’ll need to be a successful Web developer.

Ruby on Rails helps you produce high-quality, beautiful-looking web applications quickly. You concentrate on creating the application, and Rails takes care of the details.

Tens of thousands of developers have used this award-winning book to learn Rails. It’s a broad, far-reaching tutorial and reference that’s recommended by the Rails core team. If you’re new to Rails, you’ll get step-by-step guidance. If you’re an experienced developer, this book will give you the comprehensive, insider information you need.

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WordPress 3.2, Beta 1

2011-05-16T03:50:00.000-07:00

It seems like just yesterday that we released WordPress 3.1, but it’s actually been almost three months. We’ve spent that time putting together a new release focused on performance improvements, and are ready for our first beta testers!

As always, this is software still in development and we don’t recommend that you run it on a production site — set up a test site just to play with the new version. If you break it (find a bug), please report it, and if you’re a developer, try to help us fix it.

If all goes well, we hope to release WordPress 3.2 by the end of June, though that is (again, as always) subject to change depending on how the beta period goes. The more help we get with testing and fixing bugs, the sooner we will be able to release the final version. If you want to be a beta tester, you should check out the Codex article on how to report bugs.

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WordPress Summer of Code 2011

2011-05-11T03:27:00.000-07:00

For the past several years, WordPress has been a proud participant in the Google Summer of Code program (aka GSoC). We’ve been accepted as a mentoring organization again this year, and are looking forward to working with a select handful of talented college students who are interested in developing for WordPress. Student applications are currently being accepted, and the deadline to apply is April 8. Are you a college student/developer looking for a summer challenge (or do you know one)? If so, read on to find out how you (or your friend) can make $5,000 developing for WordPress this summer. (Best. Summer. Job. Ever.)

GSoC Logistics:

175 mentoring organizations (including WordPress)
Highly competitive and prestigious program (in 2010, 5539 proposals were submitted by 3464 students, and 1026 were accepted)
You must be enrolled in an accredited college/university
Coding period is May-August
Successful completion of project = $5,000
GSoC FAQ answers all your questions

WordPress logistics:

Mentors include WordPress core developers, plugin authors (including BuddyPress and bbPress), mobile app developers, and WordPress professionals.
Projects are limited only by your imagination and ability.
Previous GSoC students have gained responsible roles in WordPress core development, like Dion Hulse and Andrew Nacin (core committers), and Daryl Koopersmith (wrote the internal linking feature in 3.1 and much of the custom menus feature in 3.0).
This year, in addition to accepting project proposals for the main WordPress web app, we’re also encouraging applications for projects with the WordPress mobile apps (iOS, Android, Blackberry, Nokia, Windows Phone 7), for community-developed plugins like BuddyPress and bbPress, and even standalone plugins that could become community projects. Check out our Codex page on GSoC 2011 for some ideas to get you thinking.
Last year we mentored 15 students, and hope to take on about the same number this year.

If you’re a college student/developer, we encourage you to apply. If you’re a professor or a teacher of graduating high school seniors, encourage your students! If you just want to help us spread the word, download the WordPress GSoC flyer and post it on campus bulletin boards in your town. Remember, April 8 is the deadline to apply!

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Rails 3.1 beta 1 released

2011-05-09T03:41:00.000-07:00

Ruby On Rails have the first release step towards the final version of Rails 3.1 today with the unveiling of beta 1. This is a release mostly for people who’ve already been following along with the development of Rails 3.1 and want to try a version that’s close to feature complete.

We do not yet have all the documentation ready, so it’s still a bit of a detective job to figure out how it all fits together. Thus, this is not a general release and I wont hold it against you if you’re holding out for a release candidate (coming in the next few weeks).

The tag is 3.1.0.beta1 and you can install using gem install rails --pre. Enjoy!

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WordPress 3.1.2

2011-05-02T21:18:00.000-07:00

WordPress 3.1.2 is now available and is a security release for all previous WordPress versions.

This release addresses a vulnerability that allowed Contributor-level users to improperly publish posts.

The issue was discovered by a member of our security team, WordPress developer Andrew Nacin, with Benjamin Balter.

We suggest you update to 3.1.2 promptly, especially if you allow users to register as contributors or if you have untrusted users. This release also fixes a few bugs that missed the boat for version 3.1.1.

Download 3.1.2 or update automatically from the Dashboard → Updates menu in your site’s admin area

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Summer WordCamps 2011

2011-04-25T03:44:00.000-07:00

Looking for something fun to do during your summer vacation? Why not check out a WordCamp! WordCamps are locally-organized casual conferences of, by, and for WordPress users, developers, and enthusiasts just like you. The focus of a WordCamp is to foster face-to-face connections and collaboration among the local WordPress crowd, but there are usually some out-of-towners there as well. Here are the WordCamps that have been approved so far for the summer:

April 16: WordCamp Seattle in Seattle, WA. This weekend! After taking a year off, WordCamp Seattle is back with tracks for bloggers, designers, and developers. This year they’ll feature a lineup including presentations by both local speakers and visitors like core committer Andrew Nacin, as well as an Ignite session of lightning talks at the end of the day.

May 5: WordCamp Vancouver (Developer Edition) in Vancouver, BC. This one-day WordCamp is aimed purely at developers working on the WordPress platform, and will not have content aimed at bloggers (as previous Vancouver WordCamps have). I predict we will start seeing more of these types of niche WordCamps moving forward, because they will mean smaller, more intimate events that allow more collaboration (and make it easier to find venues!). Note that we’re working with the organizers to get the tickets to a more reasonable price, so keep your eyes open this week if you’ve held off on buying a ticket because of the price tag.

May 7: WordCamp Switzerland in Brugg, Switzerland. This one will cover a wide range of topics, including getting started with WordPress, advanced development topics, BuddyPress, and an inside look at running a WordPress-based business.

May 14: WordCamp Orange County in Orange, CA. Already sold out! Orange County had their first WordCamp last year, and the organizers have put together another great event this time around.

May 14: WordCamp Paris in Paris, France. One of the last true unconference-style WordCamps, the Paris group will plan their schedule the morning of the event like they do at BarCamps. WordCamp Paris had one of the best WordCamp t-shirts ever a couple of years ago. And it’s in Paris in the spring.

May 21–22: WordCamp Raleigh in Raleigh, NC. Repeat organizers from the Raleigh WordPress Meetup Group are just starting to select speakers and put together their plans, but if it is anything like last year, the venue will be packed with WordPress professionals (and maybe there will be cookies). I’ll be attending this one, as will Nacin.

June 4–5: WordCamp Reno-Lake Tahoe in Reno, NV. Organized by a WordPress core UI group contributor, WordCamp Reno-Lake Tahoe is taking place in Reno and has a packed schedule full of visiting experts.
June 11–12: WordCamp Kansas City in Overland Park, KS. With publisher, designer, and developer tracks, Kansas City’s WordCamp will have a little something for everyone, presented in large part by local speakers.

June 17–19: WordCamp Columbus in Columbus, OH. WordCamp Columbus has a new organizer this year and is bringing the focus more firmly onto WordPress (and less on social media). Their 3-day event includes an entire day for newbies, and another for non-profits, a nice addition to the usual blogger/developer tracks.

July 9–10: WordCamp Montreal in Montreal, Quebec. This group consistently puts on a great every year. If you register now, you can still get a $10 discount and get both days for only $30 (with sessions in both English and French to reflect the bilingual nature of the city). Montreal plays host to a number of festivals throughout the year, and this weekend is no different, including festivals for the arts, comedy, tango, and even circus arts.

July 16: WordCamp San Diego in San Diego, CA. First WordCamp in San Diego! They have talking about this for over a year, and are now starting to really ramp up the planning. They’re finalizing their venue right now, and I would expect a great roster of speakers.

July 16-17: WordCamp Portsmouth in Portsmouth, UK. The annual WordCamp UK that moves from city to city each year alights this year in Portsmouth. This one is notable because Mike Little, co-founder of WordPress, is part of the organizing team.

July 23–24: WordCamp Boston in Boston, MA. Another one just about to lock down some details and get starting with speaker selection, etc. An easy train ride from so many places, and not in the middle of winter this year!

July 30-31: WordCamp Chicago has new organizers and is a new venue this year. A call for speakers, supporters, and volunteers will likely be posted sometime next week.

WordCamp Portland is looking for a venue before deciding on a date this year, as it has outgrown the space it’s used the past two years, but hopes to happen in September. If you would be interested in donating a venue to this popular event, please contact them.

We’ll hold off on posting fall events until later in the summer since there a lot in the planning stages now. To get the most up-to-date information, visit WordCamp Central.

Hope to see you at a WordCamp soon!

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Rails 3.0.7 has been released !!!

2011-04-22T03:32:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone! I've released Rails version 3.0.7!
I want to say thanks to Santiago for handling the release candidate gems. He's on vacation, so I get to do the real thing.
The main change in this release is to fix a performance regression in ActiveRecord that was introduced in version 3.0.6.

Changes

For a web friendly view, check out the compare view on github.
For those that want the TL;DR of the commits, here are the pertinant CHANGELOG entries for each project:

activesupport

Hash.from_xml no longer loses attributes on tags containing only whitespace [André Arko]

activerecord

Destroying records via nested attributes works independent of reject_if LH #6006 [Durran Jordan]
Delegate any? and many? to Model.scoped for consistency [Andrew White]
Quote the ORDER BY clause in batched finds - fixes #6620 [Andrew White]
Change exists? so records are not instantiated - fixes #6127. This prevents after_find and after_initialize callbacks being triggered when checking for record existence. [Andrew White]
Fix performance bug with attribute accessors which only occurred on Ruby 1.8.7, and ensure we cache type-casted values when the column returned from the db contains non-standard chars. [Jon Leighton]
Fix a performance regression introduced here 86acbf1cc050c8fa8c74a10c735e467fb6fd7df8 related to read_attribute method [Stian Grytøyr]

actionmailer

remove AM delegating register_observer and register_interceptor to Mail [Josh Kalderimis]

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WordPress For iPad Readers

2011-04-15T23:31:00.000-07:00

With the launch of Apple’s iPad we have seen the future of computing and it is touch. Nothing matches the visceral feel of navigating your digital world with your hands. The past four months we’ve been working closely with Onswipe to bring your iPad visitors our vision of what a blog can look like re-imagined for a touch experience.

Our iPad-optimized view is app-like in its functionality, but pure HTML5 goodness on the backend: it supports touch interactions, swiping, rotation, and many other features of the iPad. Like when we launched our smartphone-optimized WP-Touch integration in 2009 (now responsible for over 150 million page views a month) this is immediately available and active on the over 18 million blogs on WordPress.com.
There are some fun options to play with too. If you browse to Appearance -> iPad in your Dashboard you can:

Have the theme use an image from your recent posts as a cover.
Upload a logo to showcase your brand or personality on the cover.
Upload an image to be used as a loading graphic when visitors add your site to their home screen.
Switch fonts.
Choose from 9 different skin colors, to best match the feel of your site.
Enable or disable the whole thing.

When you tap to view a post, you get to see the full content with a slick commenting interface and social sharing tools for Twitter, Facebook, and WordPress.com literally at your finger tips. It’s a lot of fun browsing sites with Onswipe.

Onswipe has also made the plugin available for self-hosted WordPress.org sites.

On WordPress.com we’re seeing about 750,000 page views a day from iPad visitors and it continues to rise. New tablet devices seem to be coming out every time you turn around. In the coming months we’ll be expanding to work with other popular tablet devices, but we chose to focus on the iPad first because… well it’s cool.

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Ruby Hero Awards 2011

2011-04-14T00:39:00.000-07:00

It’s that time again to take a moment to think about those who have impacted the Ruby community this year but have not received the recognition they deserve. We have given away eighteen awards in the past three years at Railsconf, and this year we are preparing to give away six more.

But we need your help.

So, if you know someone who has contributed greatly this year please take a moment to show some gratitude by nominating them on RubyHeroes.com. In two weeks the Ruby Heroes from last year will look at the nominations and decide who should receive the awards (this way there’s no popularity contest). However, your nominations do matter, so please take a moment and spread the gratitude.
The winners will be announced live on stage at Railsconf 2011.

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WordPress 3.1.1

2011-04-10T21:40:00.000-07:00

WordPress 3.1.1 is now available. This maintenance and security release fixes almost thirty issues in 3.1, including:

Some security hardening to media uploads
Performance improvements
Fixes for IIS6 support
Fixes for taxonomy and PATHINFO (/index.php/) permalinks
Fixes for various query and taxonomy edge cases that caused some plugin compatibility issues

Version 3.1.1 also addresses three security issues discovered by WordPress core developers Jon Cave and Peter Westwood, of our security team. The first hardens CSRF prevention in the media uploader. The second avoids a PHP crash in certain environments when handling devilishly devised links in comments, and the third addresses an XSS flaw.

We suggest you update to 3.1.1 promptly. Download 3.1.1 or update automatically from the Dashboard → Updates menu in your site’s admin area.

Our release haiku:

Only the geeks know
What half this stuff even means
Don’t worry — update

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Rails 3.0.6 has been released!

2011-04-07T03:10:00.000-07:00

Hi everybody! Rails 3.0.6 has been released!
Let's get the serious business out of the way first:

Rails 3.0.6 contains an important security fix! Please upgrade!

Rails versions 3.0.x prior to 3.0.6 contain an XSS vulnerability. The vulnerability manifests itself via the auto_link method. The auto_link method will automatically mark input strings as "html safe" even if the input is from an unknown origin.
For example:

<%= auto_link(params[:content]) %>

If the "content" parameter contains malicious javascript, that script will be rendered without being escaped.

How can I protect myself?

Upgrade to Rails 3.0.6, then content passed to auto_link will be automatically escaped for you.
If you cannot upgrade Rails, then apply the patch found here. Then auto_link content will be escaped for you.
If you cannot upgrade Rails, or apply the patch, then change your calls to auto_link to call sanitize like so:
<%= sanitize(auto_link(params[:content])) %>
If you trust the input, then change to this
<%= raw(auto_link(params[:content])) %>

Credits

Thanks go to Torben Schulz for reporting this issue!

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Google Summer of Code Program (GSoC) - WordPress a mentoring organization for talented students!

2011-04-04T05:19:00.000-07:00

Student applications are currently being accepted by WordPress to work with them this summer, and the deadline to apply is April 8 2011. Interested students who want to develop for WordPress please read on.

GSoC Logistics:

175 mentoring organizations (including WordPress)
Enrollment in an accredited college/university is mandatory
Coding period is May-August
Earn $5,000 upon completion of the project
Please see GSoC FAQ for more information

WordPress logistics:

Mentors include WordPress core developers, plugin authors (including BuddyPress and bbPress), mobile app developers, and WordPress professionals.
Submit any project based what you can do and envision.
This year, in addition to accepting project proposals for the main WordPress web app, WordPress is also encouraging applications for projects with the WordPress mobile apps (iOS, Android, Blackberry, Nokia, Windows Phone 7), for community-developed plugins like BuddyPress and bbPress, and even standalone plugins that could become community projects. Check out our Codex page on GSoC 2011 for some ideas.
15 students were mentored by WordPress last year, and around the same will be selected this year too.

If you’re a college student/developer, you are encouraged to apply!

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MacRuby 0.10 released by MacRuby

2011-03-30T03:10:00.000-07:00

MacRuby announced release of MacRuby 0.10 on 23rd March 30, 2011, just a few weeks after the earlier release Mac Ruby 0.9!

There are several bug fixes, support for MacBook Pro hardware and Xcode 4 integration, which is the new version of IDE (Integrated Development Environment) to develop applications for Mac, IPhone and iPad.

Also, there are bug fixes in macruby_deploy for App Store submissions and several stability fixes.

Here are the release notes for 0.10 http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macruby-devel/2011-March/007390.html

MacRuby 0.10 can be downloaded from this link http://www.macruby.org/files/MacRuby%200.10.zip

Note – MacRuby 0.10 works only on Intel 64-bit machines running Snow Leopard (10.6) or later.

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JRuby 1.6 Released: Ruby 1.9.2 Support and More

2011-03-23T03:09:00.000-07:00

It's a newsflash! JRuby 1.6.0 has been released today. Congratulations to the JRuby team. 1.6 is a significant and much awaited release and comes after a 9 month push of over 2500 commits.

Hit up the official release post for the full run-through but here are some of the highlights of the release:

Windows has been added to the JRuby team's continuous integration system meaning that Windows support is only going to get better
Ruby 1.9.2 language and API support (with the exception of Encoding::Converter and ripper)
Built in profiler
General performance improvements
Experimental support for C extensions (with provisos)
RSpec is no longer included (worth mentioning in case it catches you out..)

You can download binary and source releases direct from JRuby.org if you want to get up to date or update RVM with rvm get head and rvm reload before running rvm install jruby-1.6.0 :-)
Fingers crossed for some great JRuby tutorials and guides coming along in the next couple of months.

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Live from South by Southwest 2011

2011-03-18T22:35:00.000-07:00

If you’ve ever heard Matt Mullenweg talk about the early days of WordPress, the South by Southwest (SxSW) Interactive festival that takes place each spring in Austin, TX usually crops up in the story. South by Southwest is in full swing right now, and WordPress has been all over the place.

On Friday the 11th, Matt was interviewed by John Battelle of Federated Media in front of a packed ballroom, talking about the future of WordPress. That night, the annual SxSW WordPress BBQ party played host to hundreds of WordPress users, developers, and businesspeople, and attendees got an extra treat this year in the form of a t-shirt made especially to commemorate WordPress and its Texas roots.

On Saturday the 12th, a second party co-hosted by the Austin WordPress Meetup Group and GeekAustin (and co-sponsored by the WordPress Foundation and WPEngine) brought together a similar crowd but with the addition of local WordPress community members who were not registered for the SxSW conference.

Starting today, the South by Southwest trade show opens, and this year for the first time it will feature an official WordPress Genius Bar. Staffed by professional WordPress support staff, developers, advanced users, theme designers, and even some of the core contributors and project leaders, the booth will be open from 11am-6pm each day to answer questions and help people with any WordPress problems they might have. If you are at South by Southwest this year, consider stopping by to say hello and pick up a WordPress button or sticker. We’ll also have a limited supply of the special WordPress/Texas shirts that we’ll be giving away at the booth, so if you’re at SxSW between now and Thursday, stop by. Hope to see you there!

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Ruby on Rails - The fast track web application development framework

2011-03-17T02:22:00.000-07:00

Ruby on Rails, developed by David Heinemeier Hansson in 2003, is an Open-Source web framework built using Ruby.
The main goal was to enable developers to rapidly develop web applications backed by SQL databases.
Nearly 8 years later, Ruby on Rails has built itself a niche in the IT development world.

Here are some of the advantages for web application using Ruby on Rails Development:

* The framework is entirely built using Ruby, an object oriented language which is also very intuitive and easy to code.
* Ruby on Rails uses the Model View Controller (MVC) software architecture. The main tenet being, separating business logic from user interface (input and presentation).
* Developers spend much less time writing code for the basic functionalities and can concentrate on coding for the specific requirements of client or customer. The same project, that would take weeks, even months to develop using other languages, takes only a few days in Ruby on Rails.
* Ruby on Rails (RoR) follows a Don't Repeat yourself(DRY) rule, wherein, code for a particular functionality is written only once and not repeated at different places. This makes management of code, Debugging and maintaining future versions much easier.
* RoR generates the scaffolding for the Developer that automatically creates a CRUD application (Create new records, Read records, Update records and Delete records).
* The Convention over Configuration principle that is followed in Rails is that RoR makes assumptions about what developer would need by default and creates it; for example, if there is a class called ‘product' in the model, then a table called ‘product' is created by default. Thus the developers do not have to specify every small detail through configuration files. This is a very big time saver and avoids bugs that could be introduced. Of course RoR programming gives the flexibility to modify default behavior in case developer needs to customize.
* Lastly, Ruby on Rails follows the principle of REST (Representational State Transfer) which means every unique URL is a representation of an object, and the contents can be accessed by simple HTTP commands. This provides one of the fastest and standardized ways to develop Web applications.

There are now several web applications built using Ruby on Rails. Here are a few examples -

* Twitter -- The very popular site to pen your thoughts in short sentences used by both individuals and enterprises to be in touch with the world.
* Yellow Pages --a service that helps you search online for contact information of businesses.
* Scribd -- A site where you can read, print, also upload books and documents online.
* Shopify -- An Ecommerce site that helps you create your own online store.

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What Is "Eloquent Ruby"?

2011-03-14T03:43:00.000-07:00

Eloquent Ruby is a book published by Addison Wesley and written by Russ Olsen (who also wrote Design Patterns in Ruby a few years ago). It clocks in at around 400 pages and has 31 chapters clocking in at around a punchy 10 pages each. Each chapter is titled as a guideline you should follow to write "eloquent" Ruby - things like Create Classes That Understand Equality and Write Code That Looks Like Ruby - and typically the claim is explained, some code examples shown and discussed, some real world examples pointed to, and that's it.

As with Design Patterns in Ruby, Russ adopts a chatty, familiar tone. Reading this book is like reading a book specifically written for you by a friend. He doesn't shoot off on many unnecessary tangents and he keeps the stories short and sweet but this book certainly couldn't be called dry.

The book is also notably short of egregious errors or omissions. Even when I don't read something with a fine-toothed comb on standby, I can usually pick out a laundry list of factual and grammatical errors or omissions (as both Obie Fernandez and my wife will attest) but Eloquent Ruby gave me little to chew on. I can only bring to mind a few spacing and formatting issues and only one true "error": a > instead of a < in a class definition on a single example.

Russ tries to remain neutral with his choice of Ruby implementations but the book seems to focus primarily on Ruby 1.9 (Ruby 1.9.1 specifically but that's just due to when he wrote it) while providing useful footnotes in the cases where there are differences to Ruby 1.8. No matter what Ruby implementation you're using, there's little to confuse you as most of it is very non-implementation and non-version specific.
I wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone except those who, well, could have written a similar book themselves. The short punchy chapters make it a delight to read and gives the option of reading it merely 10 minutes at a time before bed or similar. The short chapters also make it useful as a reference if you forget how to do a certain thing like, say, use method_missing, even though it's not put together as a reference book at all. Lastly, this book is a must read if you're not confident with Ruby idioms and the best way to structure and lay out your code - Russ's approaches reinforce the current "standard" way to write Ruby and this alone is worth the price of admission.

Who Should Buy It?

Any Ruby developer who doesn't yet feel like they're at guru level (that's most of us!)
Anyone who wants to get a feel for the typically undocumented style, syntax, and structural standards of top Ruby developers.

Who Shouldn't Buy It?

Anyone without a sense of humor or who doesn't like a chatty, familiar type of writing.
Matz, Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler, Russ Olsen himself, and a few others.
Anyone who's resistant to change and wants to keep coding Ruby "their way."

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WordPress – A Wizard in the world of Blogging and Content Management

2011-03-10T01:49:00.000-08:00

WordPress is a very popular blogging and content management system (CMS) tool. It is possibly one of the most well known and respected tool with over 4 million* websites using WordPress!

WordPress is an open source project which started in the year 2003, as a blogging tool.

Users are given an intuitive online interface to type, tag with keywords and upload their blogs or articles. The core idea is to help the user by taking over all the effort needed to present the information online, allowing him/her to concentrate on the content of his blog. Users can customize the theme or in other words, the web layout, background colors, font etc to better suit his content or give a more classy and unique look for his blog.

Once the blog is published on a website, there are other features provided by wordpress developer: Typically, when people read articles or blogs, they like to leave their comments. The interface to leave comments also allows authors to manage the comments posted.

Sometimes, authors would like to link to or comment on other blogs that are related to the same topic; these are done by what are called pingbacks and trackbacks. This way, the readers are made aware of the author’s comments on other blogs in one single page. The other feature that is very useful is Permalink or Pretty url, where users can specify a human readable and intuitive weblink name instead of machine generated links with numbers and special characters.

As WordPress became one of the default choices for blogging globally, subsequent version releases also came to be used as a CMS tool. The administrative panel provided could be used to customize the web layout around the content. The most important feature being a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor giving the user an idea of how the webpage would actually look in browser window.

The user can select if the home page will be static or a live one , for eg. with posts or testimonials updated as they are uploaded to a particular section of the website.

Individual customized Page Templates can also be applied to different pages of the website. Thus, user could choose some pages to not have the same header and footer as the rest. The user also has options to include widgets as sidebars that are dynamic and change as the page changes. By turning off some features that are blog specific, and customizing other features, users can easily build a truly dynamic website with wordpress experts!

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WordPress Plugin: Disable WordPress Core Update

2011-03-08T00:02:00.000-08:00

Description

Completely disables the core update checking system in WordPress 2.3 and higher. It prevents WordPress from checking for updates, and prevents any notifications from being displayed in the admin area. Ideal for administrators of multiple WordPress installations.

Why would I want to disable it?

Most people should not disable this feature. It’s a fantastic feature of WordPress and I’m fully in support of it. However, administrators who maintain multiple installations of WordPress on behalf of other people (eg. clients, friends) may not want update notifications to be shown to the users of these installations. This plugin is for them.

Installation

This plugin is only for WordPress 2.3 and later. Earlier versions of WordPress did not have the core update notification system, therefore do not need this plugin.
Download the plugin using the link at the bottom of this page, unzip it and drop the folder straight into your wp-content/plugins directory. Activate it from WordPress’ Plugin panel.

Please note!

It’s very important that you keep your WordPress installation(s) up to date. If you don’t, your blog or website could be susceptible to security vulnerabilities. If you use this plugin, you must make sure you keep up to date with new WordPress releases and update your WordPress installation(s) as new versions are released.

Download

ZIP file from downloads.wordpress.org

You can also visit the plugin page on wordpress.org.
Any comments, questions, queries, suggestions, complaints, etc, please leave a comment below!

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18th Birthday for Ruby

2011-03-03T01:32:00.000-08:00

Yes, I'm sad enough to have had this in my calendar for some time but.. it's Ruby's 18th "birthday" today! Happy Birthday Ruby! While this means she can drink, vote, and otherwise join her slightly older friends Perl (24) and Python (21) in the nightclubs of Europe, I was surprised to learn that coming of age in Japan is at 20 years old.

From Wikipedia's Ruby entry:

The name "Ruby" was decided on during an online chat session between Matsumoto and Keiju Ishitsuka on February 24, 1993, before any code had been written for the language. Initially two names were proposed: "Coral" and "Ruby", with the latter being chosen by Matsumoto in a later email to Ishitsuka. Matsumoto has later stated that a factor in choosing the name "Ruby" was because it was the birthstone of one of his colleagues.

If you're interested in learning more, this interview with Matz back in 2001 will give you more history and background to the creation of Ruby.

While Matz has said that February 24, 1993 is Ruby's "birthday" (back when I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston was topping the charts), the first public release wasn't until December 21, 1995 when Ruby 0.95 was released and the first mailing list established. Ruby 1.0 followed a year later on December 25, 1996, establishing the tradition of Christmas Day Ruby releases.

Here's to 18 more, love.

P.S. Before I get any grief for putting a picture of a young woman on this post — it's happened before *sigh* — this actress played a character called Ruby in the UK's most popular soap opera and was about 18 at the time. Rock and roll.

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Fun in WordPress 3.1

2011-03-01T01:20:00.000-08:00

The long-awaited fourteenth release of WordPress is now available. WordPress 3.1 “Reinhardt” is named in honor of the jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. Version 3.1 is available for download, or you can update from within your dashboard.

This release features a lightning fast redesigned linking workflow which makes it easy to link to your existing posts and pages, an admin bar so you’re never more than a click away from your most-used dashboard pages, a streamlined writing interface that hides many of the seldom-used panels by default to create a simpler and less intimidating writing experience for new bloggers (visit Screen Options in the top right to get old panels back), and a refreshed blue admin scheme available for selection under your personal options.

There’s a bucket of candy for developers as well, including our new Post Formats support which makes it easy for themes to create portable tumblelogs with different styling for different types of posts, new CMS capabilities like archive pages for custom content types, a new Network Admin, an overhaul of the import and export system, and the ability to perform advanced taxonomy and custom fields queries.

With the 3.1 release, WordPress is more of a CMS than ever before. The only limit to what you can build is your imagination.

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Wordpress Development is helpful for Bloggers

2011-02-23T22:54:00.000-08:00

You can press your words using wordpress at ease. Wordpress is a well known Content Management System (CMS) used to develop websites. It affords it services to medium scale and small scale industries who wants to host their website at an affordable cost. Maintaining a website is as easy as eating burger when you are with Wordpress. Its gives us jaw dropping plug ins, themes and services to the customers.

Wordpress is mostly used by blogger who loves to write online. They post featured websites and blogs on their homepage which helps in getting more visitors to our page. They themselves give us tips to make your page featured, it easy to read, understand and follow up. When ever you have an idea to start a blog. Wordpress is your right choice, with its mind blowing attractive themes it makes your web page so cool. It allows people to comment on your blog, rate it, share it and even publish it to social website like Facebook and Twitter.

Wordpress Development impress the customers by providing excellent service, where you need not to edit PHP or any coding to add a widget or plugins. You can customize your website to your taste. No website domains in the world gives out this kind of service. Wordpress provides you many other services like getting

* Getting your site Search Engine Optimized.
* Guiding in Installing Plugins.
* Transliteration
* Shortening the URL for posting it in twitter
* Innumerable support services

Passionate to start a website or to ready to enthrall the world with your blog start it with wordpress experts and make the world follow you.

Source: http://goarticles.com/article/Wordpress-Development-is-helpful-for-Bloggers/4227599/

RubyGems 1.5.0 Released: Now Supports Ruby 1.9.2

2011-02-19T02:15:00.000-08:00

Ryan Davis has announced the release of RubyGems 1.5.0. It comes just a month after the release of 1.4 which, notoriously, didn't work with Ruby 1.9.2. These problems have now all been ironed out and Ruby 1.8 and 1.9 users alike can safely upgrade (fingers crossed).

RubyGems is the popular (and official - as of Ruby 1.9) Ruby package manager with which most significant Ruby libraries and tools are distributed. The 1.5 release sees it pick up a few bug fixes and some enhancements, including:

Ruby 1.9 support
Post-build hooks that can cancel the gem install
Gem.find_files is now 40% faster (on Ruby 1.9)
Better errors for corrupt Gem files, including paths
A new UPGRADING documentation file to help with Ruby 1.9-related issues
gem update no longer erroneously tries to update RubyGems itself by default

To upgrade to RubyGems 1.5.0, run:

gem update --system

Alternatively, you can learn more in the new UPGRADING documentation, or if you don't already have RubyGems for some reason, you can download it from RubyGems.org.

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WordPress 3.0.5 (and 3.1 Release Candidate 4)

2011-02-15T04:54:00.000-08:00

WordPress 3.0.5 is now available and is a security hardening update for all previous WordPress versions.
This security release is required if you have any untrusted user accounts, but it also comes with important security enhancements and hardening. All WordPress users are strongly encouraged to update.

Three point oh point five
Enhances security
Three point one comes soon

The release addresses a number of issues and provides two additional enhancements:

Two moderate security issues were fixed that could have allowed a Contributor- or Author-level user to gain further access to the site.

One information disclosure issue was addressed that could have allowed an Author-level user to view contents of posts they should not be able to see, such as draft or private posts.

Two security enhancements were added. One improved the security of any plugins which were not properly leveraging our security API. The other offers additional defense in depth against a vulnerability that was fixed in previous release.

Thanks to Nils Jueneman and Saddy for their private and responsible disclosures to security@wordpress.org for two of the issues. The others were reported or repaired by our security team.

Download 3.0.5 or update automatically from the Dashboard > Updates menu in your site’s admin area. Please update immediately.

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WordPress 3.1 Release Candidate 4 is also now available

2011-02-08T21:12:00.000-08:00

The Release Candidate 4 build includes the security fixes and enhancements included in 3.0.5 and addresses about two dozen additional bugs. This includes fixes for:

Deleting a user and reassigning their posts to another user.
Marking multiple users or sites as spam in multisite.
PHP4 compatibility.

As outlined in previous RC posts, if you are testing the release candidate and think you’ve found a bug, there are a few ways to let us know:

Post it to the Alpha/Beta area in the support forums
Report it to the wp-testers mailing list
Join the development IRC channel and tell us live at irc.freenode.net #wordpress-dev
File a bug ticket on the WordPress Trac

To test WordPress 3.1, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you’ll want “bleeding edge nightlies”). Or you can download the release candidate here (zip). If any new issues become known, you’ll be able to find them here.

After nearly five months of development and testing, we think we’re very close to a final release. Users and developers, please test your themes and plugins.

Download WordPress 3.1 RC4 or WordPress 3.0.5 now.

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3.0.4 Important Security Update

2011-02-04T22:15:00.000-08:00

Version 3.0.4 of WordPress, available immediately through the update page in your dashboard or for download here, is a very important update to apply to your sites as soon as possible because it fixes a core security bug in our HTML sanitation library, called KSES. I would rate this release as “critical.”
This issue affects all versions of WordPress prior to 3.0.4, so if you are still on a 2.X release you need to update as well.

I realize an update during the holidays is no fun, but this one is worth putting down the eggnog for. In the spirit of the holidays, consider helping your friends as well.

If you are a security researcher, we’d appreciate you taking a look over this changeset as well to review our update. We’ve given it a lot of thought and review but since this is so core we want as many brains on it as possible. Thanks to Mauro Gentile and Jon Cave (duck_) who discovered and alerted us to these XSS vulnerabilities first.

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RubyGems 1.5.0 Released: Now Supports Ruby 1.9.2

2011-02-02T19:56:00.000-08:00

Ruby 1.9 support
Post-build hooks that can cancel the gem install
Gem.find_files is now 40% faster (on Ruby 1.9)
Better errors for corrupt Gem files, including paths
A new UPGRADING documentation file to help with Ruby 1.9-related issues
gem update no longer erroneously tries to update RubyGems itself by default

To upgrade to RubyGems 1.5.0, run:
gem update --system

Alternatively, you can learn more in the new UPGRADING documentation, or if you don't already have RubyGems for some reason, you can download it from RubyGems.org.

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The Annual WordPress Conference: WordCamp SF 2011

2011-01-31T01:50:00.000-08:00

Mark your calendars: WordCamp San Francisco, the official annual WordPress conference, will be August 12-14, 2011. This year will mark the 5th anniversary of WordCamp, and as always will feature Matt Mullenweg’s “State of the Word” address as well as a variety of amazing speakers that you’d normally only get to see at expensive industry conferences. This year the program will be expanded to three days, with programming for publishers, bloggers, and developers. There will also be related activities, like core team summits, workshops for contributors, designers, and local organizers, and various professional and networking events. The planning is just beginning, so save the date on your calendar and keep an eye on the WordCamp SF 2011 site (and/or follow the @wordcampsf twitter account) for updates as details become available.

*For people who attended WordCamp SF last year who thought the annual event this year would be called WordCon, with WordCamp SF becoming a more locally-oriented event, you can read my long-winded explanation of why we didn’t go that route over the on the WordCamp Central blog.

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A Free Book of Nature-Inspired Ruby Recipes - Clever Algorithms

2011-01-27T03:51:00.000-08:00

Clever Algorithms is a newly released book by Jason Brownlee PhD that describes 45 algorithms from the Artificial Intelligence (AI) field with Ruby-based examples. It's well produced and, notably, free in its PDF and online formats. A print copy is available at a small cost.

The book kicks off with a chapter of background regarding AI and its problem domains and moves on to an array of algorithms in the probabilistic, neural networking, stochastic, swarm, and evolutionary spaces.
Ruby purists will note that even though the demonstrations are in Ruby, they're not very Ruby like. Classes are rarely defined and using methods defined in the main context as functions is the order of the day.

Nonetheless, the book remains well written and interesting and the Ruby code - as generic as it is - will nonetheless help Rubyists get the idea behind many of the processes demonstrated.

"This book provides a handbook of algorithmic recipes from the fields of Metaheuristics, Biologically Inspired Computation and Computational Intelligence that have been described in a complete, consistent, and centralized manner. These standardized descriptions were carefully designed to be accessible, usable, and understandable. Most of the algorithms described in this book were originally inspired by biological and natural systems, such as the adaptive capabilities of genetic evolution and the acquired immune system, and the foraging behaviors of birds, bees, ants and bacteria. An encyclopedic algorithm reference, this book is intended for research scientists, engineers, students, and interested amateurs."

Jason Brownlee

Check out Jason's book at cleveralgorithms.com and the content and code are in this GitHub repository.

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A Simple PEG Parser Framework for Ruby - Parslet

2011-01-24T01:16:00.000-08:00

Parslet is a new "simple parser framework" for Ruby built by Kaspar Schiess. It follows the PEG (parsing expression grammar) style of parsing and its primary goals are to be simple, testable, and to have extensive and powerful error reporting features (something that Kaspar states Treetop sorely lacks).

If you've already used Treetop, you might wonder what the hoopla is about. The key difference is that Parslet does not generate code to represent the parsing grammars you create as Treetop does - it works directly from rules defined using standard Ruby syntax (Treetop has its own Ruby-esque grammar language). Parslet's error messages are also significantly nicer than Treetop's when you inevitably run into trouble with your grammar as they're generated by Parslet itself and don't spring from Treetop's internally generated code.

So if you need to build a parser (or think you might), check out Parslet - it has a great homepage with some useful documentation. Installation is simple (gem install parslet) and Kaspar has put together a "getting started" tutorial that walks through building a basic grammar for a teeny-tiny programming language. It concludes with a complete example of a programming language interpreter in a mere 49 lines.

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WordPress 3.1 Release Candidate 2

2011-01-21T01:07:00.000-08:00

The second release candidate for WordPress 3.1 is now available. The requisite haiku:

Rounding up stragglers
Last few bugs for 3.1
Go test RC2

As I outlined in the announcement post for RC1, release candidates are the last stop before the final release. It means we think we’re done, and we again have no bugs to squash. But with tens of millions of users, many server configurations and setups, and thousands of plugins and themes, it’s still possible we’ve missed something.

Beta 1 came on Thanksgiving, RC1 on Christmas, and RC2 on New Year’s Day. We won’t be waiting for another holiday for the final release, though, so if you haven’t tested WordPress 3.1 yet, now is the time!

Select changes since RC1:

The security fixes included in WordPress 3.0.4
Fix issues related to handling a static front page
Fixes and enhancements for the pagination buttons
Fix searching for partial usernames
Properly reactivate plugins after editing them
Always show the current author in the author dropdown when editing a post
Fixes for attachment taxonomies
Fix node removal for the admin bar
Fix the custom post type show_in_menu argument
Various fixes for right-to-left languages
and a few dozen more changes

If you are testing the release candidate and think you’ve found a bug, there are a few ways to let us know:

Post it to the Alpha/Beta area in the support forums
Report it to the wp-testers mailing list
Join the development IRC channel and tell us live at irc.freenode.net #wordpress-dev
File a bug ticket on the WordPress Trac

To test WordPress 3.1, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you’ll want “bleeding edge nightlies”). Or you can download the release candidate here (zip).
If any known issues crop up, you’ll be able to find them here. If you’d like to know which levers to pull in your testing, check out a list of features in our Beta 1 post.

Download WordPress 3.1 RC 2

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JRuby 1.6.0 RC1 Released : JRuby Gets All 1.9.2 On Us

2011-01-18T21:48:00.000-08:00

The JRuby team has announced the release of JRuby 1.6.0 Release Candidate 1. The final release is still a little way off but the bulk of the work is in place. It's billed as the "largest release of JRuby to date" which, given how awesome 1.5 was, is a big deal, especially as it adds initial Ruby 1.9.2 language and standard library compatibility (though 1.8.7 is still the "default").

So, what's new?

Ruby 1.9.2 language and API compatibility (use the --1.9 command line option to get it)
Ruby 1.9.2 stdlib included (even in jruby-complete.jar)
General performance and stability improvements
RubyGems 1.4.2 included
Experimental C extension support (!)

The JRuby team are especially keen for people to try out the new Ruby 1.9.2 support so that they can round out and perfect their 1.9.2 compatibility before the final release.

You can grab the 1.6.0.RC1 builds of JRuby from the JRuby download page. I haven't had any luck with RVM yet but I suspect it'll be supporting this release really soon..

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WordPress for Windows Phone 7 App

2011-01-16T22:32:00.000-08:00

WordPress is truly going mobile. They have launched apps for Android, Blackberry and iPhone. Now the application for Windows Phone 7 is also available.
WordPress (news, site) is definitely following the mobile wave because they offer a mobile app for all the popular smartphones on the market. Android, Blackberry and iPhone have had their mobile WordPress applications for a while and now the time has come to enjoy WordPress on Windows Phone 7 as well.

WordPress on Windows Phone 7

The release of the application for Windows Phone 7 wasn't left last deliberately. Rather, the device itself came just recently and this delayed the launch of the mobile application. The collaboration between WordPress, iSoftStone and Microsoft produced a good application where you can find many of the features you will need to blog on the go.

The first version of the application includes no video uploads but aside from that, you get almost everything else:

“It’s easy to write and edit posts and pages on the move, you can upload photos, as well as check stats and moderate comments. It’s all easily accessible from an Actions dashboard.”

If you want to see other features in next releases, the WordPress team is open to suggestions.

WordPress for Windows Phone 7, credit: WordPress.org

Will WordPress Take the Enterprise By Storm With Windows Phone 7

Certainly not — first, as regretful as it is, Windows Phone 7 is not meant to be an enterprise platform, though it has the potential of one. Microsoft positions it as a consumer device and as a result of this its enterprise features are far behind those of its competitors.

Second, the popularity of Windows Phone 7 among mobile devices is very, very low. Windows Phone 7 might be a major revamp of the Windows Phone family but its current usage is even below the single digits. iPhone and Android outnumber it 100 (or more) to 1 and this will hardly change in the near future.

You might be asking why then would WordPress release an application for something as unpopular as Windows Phone 7? The shortest answer is that this application makes their mobile offering complete — WordPress is on all other major mobile platforms. In fact WordPress recently celebrated 1 million mobile users.

The launch of a mobile application for Windows Phone 7 is a strategic move — who knows, the market share of Windows Phone 7 might improve some day and it makes sense to position yourself on this market early.

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JRuby 1.6.0.RC1 Released

2011-01-11T23:11:00.000-08:00

The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 1.6.0.RC1.

Homepage: http://www.jruby.org/
Download: http://www.jruby.org/download

JRuby 1.6.0.RC1 is the first release candidate of JRuby 1.6.0.
JRuby 1.6.0 is the largest release of JRuby to date. This release fixes hundreds of user issues and brings compatibility with Ruby 1.9.2 to a very high level. We have made Windows a primary supported platform by adding it as a continuous integration platform, and JRuby 1.6 will provide Windows-based Ruby users with the best experience yet. This release integrates experimental support for C extensions based on Ruby’s C API. And as with all major releases, we have improved stability and performance across the board in response to real-world user input.
We encourage Ruby and JRuby users alike to test out 1.6.0.RC1 to help us shake out remaining issues. It would be especially helpful if users would test out 1.9 mode (by passing –1.9 flag) to help us round out our 1.9.2 compatibility before the final 1.6.0 release.

Major Features:

Ruby 1.9.2 language and API compatibility
- Not implemented Encoding::Converter, non-ASCII identifiers, ripper, fiddle
Improved Ruby call performance
Built-in profiler (–profile, –profile.graph)
RubyGems 1.4.2
RSpec no longer bundled
C Extension support (experimental)
RubyGems Maven support (preview)
Improved compatibility and user experience on Windows
jruby-complete.jar now includes 1.9 standard library
Embedding API refinements
Over 2000 commits and 265 issues resolved.

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WordPress.com Blogs reached 23 Billion Pageviews in 2010

2011-01-10T04:51:00.000-08:00

Automattic, the company behind popular blogging platform WordPress.com, reported 6 million new blogs and 23 billion pageviews for 2010. The latter figure represents a 53% increase from 2009.

These latest stats were reported by The Next Web, which added, “Media uploads also doubled to 94.5 terabytes of new photos and videos, while new posts were up 110% to 146 million” for the past year.

Just last month, Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg and CEO Toni Scheider disclosed that the company has around 30 million total publishers responsible for roughly 10% of all websites in the world. They also shared that WordPress (WordPress).com receives 300 million unique visitors each month.

The five-year-old company may be experiencing remarkable growth, but it has yet to become a commercial success. The startup reportedly makes around $1 million per month from premium and hosting services, an inconsequential figure for a company that plays such a central role in web publishing.

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Programming Ruby 1.9 (3rd edition)

2010-12-28T19:40:00.000-08:00

Ruby is the fastest growing and most exciting dynamic language out there. If you need to get working programs delivered fast, you should add Ruby to your toolbox.

This book is the only complete reference for Ruby 1.9, the very latest version of Ruby. (If you’re still using Ruby 1.8, you’ll want to check out the original PickAxe.)

2010 marks the 10th anniversary since the first edition of the PickAxe. We’ve updated the book for Ruby 1.9.2, and we’re making the ebook available in epub and mobi, as well as PDF. (Kindle owners—there’s a lot of code in this book, and the Kindle and code listings aren’t great friends.)

The Pickaxe contains four major sections:

An acclaimed tutorial on using Ruby.
The definitive reference to the language.
Complete documentation of all built-in classes, modules, and methods.
Complete descriptions of all 97 standard libraries.

This is the reference manual for Ruby, including a description of all the standard library modules, a complete reference to all built-in classes and modules (including all the new and changed methods introduced by Ruby 1.9 and 1.9.2). It also includes all the new and changed syntax and semantics introduced since Ruby 1.8. Learn about the new parameter passing rules, local variable scoping in blocks, fibers, and the new block declaration syntax, among other exciting new features.

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JRuby 1.5.6 Released

2010-12-20T21:07:00.001-08:00

The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 1.5.6.

    * Download: http://www.jruby.org/download

JRuby 1.5.6 is a minor follow-up release to address problems with mirroring of 1.5.5 in maven, update to 1.0.3 of jruby native launcher, and a few undesirable issues in windows. All users of JRuby 1.5.5 (and lower) are recommended to upgrade to 1.5.6.

1.5.6 Issues Resolved:

    * JRUBY-4352 Rbconfig’s Config::CONFIG provides wrong name for Windows 2008 Server, based on input from Rakesh Arora. (See 07fb757.)
    * JRUBY-4774 Fix classpath and load path issues related to file paths containing spaces
    * JRUBY-4898 java.util.ConcurrentModificationException
    * JRUBY-5127 become_java! doesn’t add Ruby class methods as statics on the resulting Java class
    * JRUBY-5223 Marshal.load fails when Kernel.read is defined

Not in our tracking system:
    * ant.bat should be specified on Windows

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Security Update Released or WordPress 3.03

2010-12-19T20:33:00.000-08:00

Why is it that WordPress updates are always released the minute before I want to go to bed? WordPress has just released a new update that brings the version of their popular blogging platform to 3.03. The update is a security update which makes it a mandatory update for all WordPress webmasters
hosting blogs on their own servers,

So what’s the security vulnerability about? The WordPress blog states that it is about issues “in the remote publishing interface, which under certain circumstances allowed Author- and Contributor-level users to improperly edit, publish, or delete posts”.

That in turn means that single-author blogs are not affected by the vulnerability directly. Webmasters should still consider updating right away to prevent future damage or indirect damage if someone manages to get access to user accounts on the blog or the ability to create them.

The issue affects sites that have remote publishing enabled. Sites that do not have it enabled are not affected. Then again, it is always a good idea to update to the latest release to close potential security issues right away.

WordPress admins can check if remote publishing is enabled by going to Settings > Writing in their WordPress admin interface.

The update is as usually available directly in WordPress. Users can update their blogs from within WordPress which is the fastest and most convenient solution, or by downloading WordPress from the official website and installing the update manually.

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Continuous Testing with Ruby

2010-12-17T20:24:00.000-08:00

Feedback. We’re always telling you that you need feedback, with a short feedback gap — the time it takes to get feedback on your decisions, your code, your designs. Well, what if you narrowed the feedback gap to near zero while coding? You’d have continuous testing, a powerful idea that lets you fix bugs while they’re still small and fresh.

Continuous Testing with Ruby shows you how to use a combination of tests, tools, and techniques to immediately detect problems in code, before they spread.

We’ll show you how to set up and run automated tests that check your work continuously as you write code. You’ll start with tools such as Autotest and Watchr, and see how to use them effectively in a continuous environment. You’ll discover the fundamentals of creating and maintaining a test suite that’s Fast, Informative, Reliable, and Exhaustive. You’ll use powerful techniques such as inline assertions—a much better alternative to debugging or console printing. You’ll even use Ruby’s metaprogramming features to quickly find and diagnose problems using existing tests.

But continuous testing isn’t limited to just Ruby; we’ll show you how to extend these ideas and tools to other languages and frameworks, including Ruby on Rails and JavaScript. You’ll be able to create feedback loops that validate decisions made outside of your code: you can automatically verify Rails migrations, instantly check changes to stylesheets and views, and quickly validate documentation, seed data, and other essential configuration and settings.

Many developers today struggle to gain all the benefits of automated testing, due to poorly written or incomplete tests. Continuous Testing with Ruby shows how you can improve the quality of your existing tests and ensure the new tests that you write will do the job. By giving you instant feedback about the quality of your code and the quality of your tests, continuous testing creates a visceral feedback loop that you can actually feel as you work.

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Programming Ruby 1.9

2010-12-16T01:04:00.000-08:00

Ruby is the fastest growing and most exciting dynamic language out there. If you need to get working programs delivered fast, you should add Ruby to your toolbox.

This book is the only complete reference for Ruby 1.9, the very latest version of Ruby. (If you’re still using Ruby 1.8, you’ll want to check out the original PickAxe.)

2010 marks the 10th anniversary since the first edition of the PickAxe. We’ve updated the book for Ruby 1.9.2, and we’re making the ebook available in epub and mobi, as well as PDF. (Kindle owners—there’s a lot of code in this book, and the Kindle and code listings aren’t great friends.)

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Source: http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org

Rails Test Prescriptions

2010-12-14T20:34:00.000-08:00

Rails Test Prescriptions is a comprehensive guide to testing Rails applications, covering Test-Driven Development from both a theoretical perspective (why to test) and from a practical perspective (how to test effectively). It covers the core Rails testing tools and procedures for Rails 2 and Rails 3, and introduces popular add-ons, including Cucumber, Shoulda, Machinist, Mocha, and Rcov.

Ruby on Rails has unparalleled support for TDD. In addition to the tools that Rails has built-in, a large and thriving testing community adds new tools at an accelerating rate. Rails Test Prescriptions is your guide to the entire Rails testing ecosystem.

Containing both practical code examples and discussion of why testing works, this book starts with the most basic features delivered as part of core Ruby on Rails. Once you’ve integrated those features into your coding practice, you’ll want to use popular third-party testing tools such as RSpec, Shoulda, Cucumber, Factory Girl, and Rcov. Rails Test Prescriptions will show you how to use these tools and when they are appropriate. Rails Test Prescriptions will cover both the current Rails 2.3.x version as well as the initial 3.0 release.

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Best of Ruby Quiz

2010-12-13T22:12:00.000-08:00

Sharpen your Ruby programming skills with twenty-five challenging problems from Ruby Quiz. Read the problems, work out a solution, and compare your solution with others. This book is a collection of highlights from the first year of Ruby Quiz challenges. Inside, you will find expanded content, all new solutions, and more in depth discussions of Ruby Quiz problems and solutions. This is the book for anyone who really wants to improve their Ruby skills.

The Ruby Quiz was built to fill exactly this need for Ruby programmers. Challenges, solutions, and discussions combine to make Ruby Quiz a powerful way to learn Ruby tricks. See how algorithms translate to Ruby code; get exposure to Ruby’s libraries; and learn how other programmers use Ruby to solve problems quickly and efficiently.

Sharpen your programming skills
Learn using the most effective method available: practice
Learn great Ruby idioms
Understand sticky problems and the insights that lead you past them
Gain familiarity with Ruby’s standard library
Translate traditional algorithms to Ruby

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Rails for .NET Developers

2010-12-12T22:22:00.000-08:00

Rails for .NET Developers introduces the joy of Ruby on Rails development to Microsoft .NET developers. This book demonstrates the essential elements of both the Ruby language and the Rails application framework, geared especially for developers already fluent in the Microsoft .NET platform.

We then get to the heart of Rails development by showing how to tackle everyday tasks in Rails compared with typical ASP.NET implementations, with a tutorial focus. You’ll build a sample airline reservation system using Rails, learning essential techniques along the way. You’ll come to learn the joy and power inherent in the “convention over configuration” philosophy, the natural elegance of the MVC architecture, and the essence of REST-based design as you develop applications that accommodate web browsers, handheld devices, and even XML web service clients with unparalleled ease.

Along the way, you’ll see good agile development practices, explore test-driven development with Rails. You’ll be prepared for real-world application deployment, and we’ll give you a taste of how Ruby and Rails are reshaping the Microsoft application landscape, including a look at IronRuby.

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