Day by day I’m always more .net infected, today I’ve found 4 good links. One is DZone which provides good quality links every day. From here I found this where the author tries to convince the reader that Java 6.0 has something cool and new inside… Bah!

Through the good mailing list on Yahoo about Domain Driven Development I’ve read this article about using LINQ, DDD and so on with .net, indeed.

And while writing the post, always through DZone I see that JRuby 1.0 is out.

So more than a .net infection maybe is a Java depression.

ChadFowler.com XML and J2EE: Commodity Skills

Very interesting post of Chad Fowler.

In which technology I should Invest my time?

Usually I invest my time in the technologies that I like more, I did that in the past for Java, then Java Micro Edition, at the moment I have a strong interest for what’s going on around Ruby. I don’t care so much about money. But it’s interesting to see that looks like it’s trendy now to go for Ruby
If you search for J2EE* with Google Trends you will see that India is the Country number one searching for that.

If you search for Ruby on Rails you will find a lot of searches from USA & Canda.

The offshore market has injected its low-cost programmers into a relatively narrow set of technologies. Java and .NET programmers are a dime a dozen in India. India has a lot of Oracle DBAs as well. Less mainstream technologies are very much underrepresented by the offshore development shops. When choosing a technology set to focus your career on, you should understand the effects of increased supply and lower prices on your career prospects.

As a .NET programmer, you may find yourself competing with tens of thousands of more people in the job market than you would if you were, for example, a Python programmer. This would result in the average cost of a .NET programmer decreasing significantly, possibly driving demand higher (i.e., creating more .NET jobs). So, you’d be likely to find jobs available, but the jobs wouldn’t pay all that well. The supply of Python programmers might be much smaller than that of .NET programmers with a demand to match.

(*)I hate J2EE and XML, but this is another, old, story.

Thanks to Bertini Maurizio from the Italian Ruby ML I know that yes, maybe it’s good!

Blue Fountain Systems
Blue Fountain Systems are this years winner of the Supply Chain Management Category of the British Computer (BCS) Information Management Awards.

Open Source Ruby on Rails application scoops award.

Blue Fountain Systems beat off stiff competition from Marks & Spencer and the FOCUS DIY chain to win the award for their Blue Sequence solution which forms part of Toyota Motor Manufacturing’s own “sequence in time” production process.

The system, which is used by Futaba Industrial UK Ltd at their new factory in Derbyshire, has been written with open source technologies and uses the Ruby on Rails web framework as the web front end for the application to handle real time data from the Toyota production line, processing signals to manufacture and deliver the right part, to the right point, at the right time in the manufacturing process with the whole process taking less than 8 hours.

Beyond Test Driven Development: Behaviour Driven Development - Google Video

I’ve just sow this interesting presentation by Dave Astels on BDD.

Interesting the quotation on the last slide:

“I always thought Smalltalk would beat Java, I just didn’t know it would be called ‘Ruby’ when it did.” — Kent Beck

A good start for BDD can be rSpec, take a look to this tutorial.

There’s also a good article by Dan, here: http://dannorth.net/introducing-bdd/

I think that I’ll try to join the prj asap

Another Article here: http://abc.truemesh.com/archives/000467.html from the blog of Chris Matts.

I was spiking a bit with Jbehave today and I really like it, thanks also to Elizabeth Keogh for explaining me how the stuff works!

She’s really a cool dev!