Tag Archives: Ruby

February 15, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Celebrity Engineers–Software’s Equivalent of Arts Patronage

By Ben Kepes

Back in the days gone by, if you were part of the landed gentry, lording over your landholdings and the common folk who lived on said land, you’d look to becoming a patron of the arts as a way to ensure your name would live on after your death. While

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August 10, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Temboo Eases App Development–API Shortcuts

By Ben Kepes

The life of developers is arguably more exciting than ever before – with so many different services only an API call, it is possible for developers to deliver upon what were only dreams a few short years ago. But all of those services, and all of those hundreds of APIs

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October 27, 2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

OpenLogic Announces General Availability of CloudSwing PaaS

By Ben Kepes

The other day Krish bemoaned the fact that PaaS is rapidly becoming homogenized as all players rapidly follow their competitors in rolling out features and languages. As Krish said; …[they] talk about differentiation in terms of user experience. But, ladies and gentlemen, I hear the same from every other PaaS

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September 28, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

JRuby for Engine Yard Goes GA

By Ben Kepes

In another step towards PaaS provider Engine Yard becoming a fully featured multi language platform player, they are today announcing that JRuby on Engine Yard is entering general availability. Timed to coincide with next week’s JavaOne conferent, JRuby is a Java implementation of the Ruby language that Engine Yard initially

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July 12, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Ruby Creator Yukihiro Matsumoto Joins Heroku

By Ben Kepes

In another piece of big news today, salesforce is announcing that Yukihiro Matsumoto, the creator of Ruby, is joining Heroku in the newly created role of Chief Architect of Ruby. A self-taught computer programmer, Yukihiro Matsumoto or “Matz,” as he is known in the community, graduated with a degree in

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December 15, 2010 Posted in Business 5 Comments

When Enterprise Apps Get Agile–A Ruby/Salesforce Case Study

By Ben Kepes

When I first wrote about salesforce.com’s acquisition of Heroku, and in a subsequent post looking at the deal from a New Zealand perspective, I hinted at a great case study I’d heard of. Many of my fellow commentators have been really positive about the deal, but have struggled to find

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December 9, 2010 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Force.com and Heroku–A Kiwi Perspective

By Ben Kepes

I posted yesterday about the purchase by Salesforce of Ruby on Rails application platform Heroku. This is a quick post to look at how this can make a big difference to the ecosystem of developers out there who make their living using these tools. Fellow New Zealand company Trineo is

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Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.

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