CIS 700, Summer 2006 (Emerging Web Technologies)

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Announcements (newest first)

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• Test-first Ruby programming an interesting article on Ruby at IBM developerWorks (registration required).
• Added a link to Ruby forums to the Useful Links section.
• An article Quick Hits From Around the Ruby World has just appeared in Linux Journal. It shows what is going on in the Ruby community.
• Added a link to the free Rails web hosting provider to the Useful Links section.
• Added Ruby on Rails Podcast to the Useful Links section. I listened to the interview with the author of Agile web development with Rails - Dave Thomas (episode #2). It is interesting and not very long.
• 10-Week Free AJAX Programming (with Passion!) Online Course for those of you who would like to dive into AJAX with Java. First session starts August 4th.
• I added two required Ajax readings to the Assignments page. I might include exam questions from these two readings. I also added an example using hidden frames, and the last Ajax assignment.
• Information for installing Ruby on Linux machines has been added to the Ruby and Rails page
• Please obtain and install VS.NET 2005 on your computer if you do not wish to develop all your Ajax projects in the lab at Penn.
• Note that the true line has been removed from the definition of '==' in the Fraction class.
• Click here to see the class email address.
• See the RDT (Eclipse plugin) page for updated info on debugging Ruby in Eclipse.

External links:

• The official Ruby home page
• Installing Ruby on Windows
• Ruby Programming Language in Wikipedia has a good summary and a lot of useful links at the end.
• http://www.zenspider.com/Languages/Ruby/QuickRef.html
• Great Ruby reference
• Programming Ruby The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide Online book (fully indexed, slightly out of date)
• An introduction to AJAX on xml.com