As per Charles Oliver Nutter, two core JRuby developers, Charles himself and Thomas Enebo, will become employees at Sun Microsystems this month. To me, this is a clear indication that Sun Microsystems is seriously evaluating where to go with Java: 1. Keep adding new features to Java, which in my opinion is wrong. 2. Create a new language using JVM as a foundation, which in my opinion is right. 3. All of the above Let's keep an eye on Charles Oliver Nutter's blog, but do not expect too much of a leakage there - he is now Sun's employee. Good luck Charles and Thomas! More info

SYS-CON Events (www.events.sys-con.com)announced today that the first 'Real-World Ruby on Rails' One-Day Seminar(www.rubyonrailsseminar.com) will take place on October 3, 2006, at theSanta Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. More info

As the web continues to gain a well-deserved recognition for being the most prudent choice for a de facto computing platform, the issue of its API is becoming very critical. In this presentation, Alex Bunardzic will argue that Ruby on Rails might be the most optimal API for programming the web. He bases his convictions on the fact that Rails is built upon the Resource-Oriented Architecture (ROA) which has REST as its underpinning. Not only has that architecture emerged as a publicly vetted standard, it's also notable for its radical simplicity (introducing the unbelievably simple inventory of only four verbs!) Compared to the astronomically complex inventory of countless verbs that Service=Oriented Architecture (SOA) demands, ROA is proving to be much easier to program, especially when using Rails. More info

Something should happen with a programming language to bring it to life. For example, Jesse James Garrett came out with an acronym AJAX, and JavaScript became popular. David Heinemeier Hansson created Ruby on Rails and Ruby became a household name. (On a side note...I'm wondering, should I also increase the length of my name to come up with something valuable? Something like Yakov Edson Arantes Do Nascimento Fain? Hmm... not too bad). More info

Steven Baker is the one of the key figures in the Ruby community when it comes to agile software development. He is the creator and lead developer of RSpec, the Behavior-Driven Development framework for Ruby, and is a featured speaker on applying agile methodologies at many of the Ruby and Ruby on Rails conferences. Steven continues to collaborate with leaders of the agile and Ruby communities. He provides training and mentoring on how organizations can improve their productivity and efficiency through workshops and private sessions. More information on Steven, his writings, and his workshops can be found at http://www.stevenbaker.ca/. More info

This session will ask and answer the following key questions: Is Ruby on Rails an acceptable enterprise technology? More info

Managed hosting provider MosaicGlobe announced on Thursday it has launched its hosted Web 2.0 content management system.The Web-based application enables users to implement HTML and CSS to customize their visual designs. More info

15 months after the first public release, Rails has arrived at the big 1.0. What a journey! We've gone through thousands of revisions, tickets, and patches from hundreds of contributors to get here. I'm incredibly proud at the core committer team, the community, and the ecosystem we've raised around this framework. More info

FiveRuns Corporation, a pioneer of monitoring products for Ruby on Rails, described by some as the new Java, has gotten $6.2 million in funding from Austin Ventures. The money is earmarked for acceleration product development, sales and marketing and the company's partnership efforts. Since it kicked off a year ago August, FiveRuns has secured $9.2 million in funding. It claims a customer base of 65 organizations or so that it says are monitoring hundreds of servers, with 'hundreds' in evaluation. More info

Adobe is open sourcing the remoting and messaging technologies in its commercial LiveCycle Data Services ES - Adobe's route to the Internet - as a new product called BlazeDS. The widgetry, along with the Action Message Format (AMF) protocol specification, is being sent into the wild under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL v3), making Adobe the first major company to use the little-used new license. Public betas are out at labs.adobe.com. More info