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Developers' Day Out

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Nintendo DS Homebrew Hackery, Aakraman-A Ruby-based war game, Load testing

Web apps with Erlang, and Android Plugin Internals-four parallel tracks at

DevCamp 08 organized in the Bangalore facility of global technology professional

services firm, ThoughtWorks, besides 'lightning tracks' on topics ranging from

debugging a Ruby code to express methods to prepare omelette. Some 250 odd

developers spent an entire Saturday brainstorming on coding apps, creating

sample codes, discussing the future of Ruby, ravaging the reputation of Java.

Martin Fowler, Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks, was all praise. Most of the

discussions were centered around the sudden growth of Ruby as the chosen

language.

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According to Sidu Ponnappa, a participant and organizer, Yarv, the Ruby

interpreter currently in its version 1.9 is all set to give a hug facelift to C

Ruby and J Ruby. But like most programmers, his biggest concern was that

first-time programmers who use Ruby are likely to get carried away with its

flexible and 'no boundaries' nature, and will end up wasting lot of time

entangling themselves trying to sort of their own bugs. It is a better idea, to

make a gradual shift from Java to Ruby, since, a frustrated Java programmer is

the only one who can savour the sweet freedom that Ruby gives.

DevCamp concluded on that Ruby has better possibilities than Java, and can

create apps across many unexplored verticals.



Vishnu Anand

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