Posts Tagged ‘.net’

Ruby on Rails hype: the party is over

Sep 24, 2007 Uncategorized

Tweet Finally it seems that Ruby on Rails is starting to show its real face. Two years of RoR development put into the trash. Wow! Being seven times more productive than Java that means fourteen years of development! Seriously, it’s not common to hear of failures of a new and cool software stuff -you can [...]

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Spain vs USA comparing two Job Boards

Sep 19, 2007 Uncategorized

Tweet A few days ago I made a search in Infojobs.es (the most popular Job Board in Spain) for open positions for Ruby On Rails developers. The result was… one! I was very surprised. Only one? With all the hype around RoR? Only one job offer?It’s obvious that USA is more developed regarding technology than [...]

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Google Phone OS Java based?

Sep 4, 2007 Uncategorized

Tweet I have just read this post in Engadget about rumours of the Google Phone. I will highlight this: ‘…the phone will run on a Linux variant (which is nothing new), and will be Java Virtual Machine-capable. Additionally, the OS of the phone will be Java-based (as well as the all phone apps itself), and [...]

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Java SOA increases and .NET declines, survey says

Aug 27, 2007 Uncategorized

Tweet Evans data on his semi-annual Web Services Development Survey conducted in June says that companies planning the deployment of SOA with a Java platform has increased slightly, but the companies deploying on .NET have declined by almost 20%. .NET is still ahead with a 31% and Java in second place with 28%. 25% will [...]

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Why .NET will never be cross-platform

May 2, 2007 Uncategorized

Tweet When I read this post asking Microsoft to make .NET cross-platform, I wondered myself why they did not use Java -the one and only truly cross-platform environment-. Apart from the the obvious, Microsoft has very good reason to avoid making .NET cross-platform: The jewel of the crown is Windows, so opening .NET to OS [...]

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