People Over Process

• IBM will build new Department of Energy supercomputer
  DOE (aka “The Guys With Nukes”) to run Linux on $35M IBM machine.
  (tags: ibm linux doe opensource hardware)
• IBM extending tech support to raw Eclipse platform
  $400/yr. per developer.
  (tags: eclipse opensource support ibm rational)
• Scrums of another sort
  “No wonder the SAP CEO is really pushing the idea of the industrialization of the software development process. Better code comes through better processes. Standardisation, automation and the division of labour.”
  (tags: scrum agile sap sixsigma programming)
• The Long Tail: Lebanon or Terminator?
  “The role of the human air force is to bomb the wreckage when the robot air force goes wrong, so as to keep the technology out of enemy hands.”
  (tags: war israel robots via:mray)
• TriActive Products
  (tags: via:#redmonk sysmgmt austin)
• ongoing · JRuby Love
  Sun hires two JRuby dudes. Yuh!
  (tags: ruby jruby sunw dynamiclanguages)
• coyote: Dynamic language support in NetBeans
  (tags: netbeans via:#redmonk via:robilad jython groovy dynamiclanguages sunw)
• Joel Spolsky on languages for web programming
  Thread on ruby-talk about Joel/Ruby fest.
  (tags: ruby joelonsoftware via:#redmonk)
• Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby :: Expansion Pak #1. The Tiger’s Vest (with a Basic Introduction to Irb)
  Using irb and ri.
  (tags: ruby irb ri commandline)
• Ruby QuickRef
  (tags: ruby)

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