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Together with Tiago Pinto I’ve completed a TarPipe API for Ruby.

tarpipe is a publishing mediation and distribution platform that simplifies regular upload activities

The gem is available here and the sources are on github. It is my first released gem so feel free to send some tips and suggestions.

TarPipe is currently evolving very fast so me and Tiago will make sure our library stays up to date. Have fun doing your uploads!

Tags ruby tarpipe

Andy Jeffries, a senior PHP web developer, wrote up an interesting article on Why I think Ruby on Rails is an ideal web development environment.

Although he is Zend Certified Engineer for PHP4 and PHP5, he decided to try the hype and immediately loved it. He lists several features that makes RoR, (quoting) irresistible.

From the list, the ones I like the most are:

Console for Quick Testing
DB Migrations
RESTful Resources

Oh and he has an interesting quote about Django

Out of all the new frameworks, I decided to look at Rails because it seemed to have most of the hype (don’t get me wrong, frameworks such as Django have excellent potential, but I went with the one most people were talking about).

Maybe Google’s AppEngine will help you :-)

Tags rails ruby django php

It seems that a new war started out there. Google launched the Google AppEngine platform, supporting Python and Django out of the box.

On they Google project page, people started to “vote” for the next language to be implemented. It seems that the more “stars” a language has, the more attention it will get from Google.

So pick your favorite programming language, and “star” it on the issue list!

(oh and if you don’t have a favorite language, pick Ruby :-))

Tags perl python ruby google