Andreas blogged about why he likes
JRuby even though he dislikes Java.



JRuby is "It's just
Ruby" with more than 50,000 tests to ensure MRI compliance. The blog
highlights that there is no need to know Java, at all, to run JRuby.
Here are
some advantages that are described in the blog:

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# 1: Churrascaria
(yeah, they serve more than Steak). Had dinner at Porcao and it was
fantastico! Check out how steak churrascaria is prepared @ Porcao:




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The picture was taken during Taguatinga DFJUG meeting.



Any guess who's the guy behind the camera ?



Another similar picture is here.


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Mauricio, Doris, Simon
and I visited DFJUG @ Taguatinga
yesterday (make sure to pronounce it
correctly, otherwise you'll be corrected again & again, as I
was :). 200 attendees, mostly students, stayed all along the 4
hourof 
presentations. The projector stopped recognizing any laptop after first
two presos.

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Started San Francisco 2 days back, through Washington Dulles, with a
stop over @ Rio de Janeiro and finally arrived Brasilia yesterday.
The local airlines (TAM) from Rio to Brasilia offered a nice sandwich
where as any meal need to be bought during domestic travel in US (even
if it's across the continent). So that was a nice experience!



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During Rails
Conf Europe 2008
Day 1 I attended an excellent tutorial on Deploying
and Monitoring Ruby on Rails. The session very clearly
explained the several deployment options with Rails.

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This blog updates TOTD
#45 to use Facelets
as view technology.



Powerful templating system, re-use and ease-of-development,
designer-friendly are the key benefits of
Facelets. Facelets are already an integral part of Java Server Faces
2.0. But this blog shows how to use them with JSF 1.2.

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This blog updates TOTD
#45 to use Facelets
as view technology.



Powerful templating system, re-use and ease-of-development,
designer-friendly are the key benefits of
Facelets. Facelets are already an integral part of Java Server Faces
2.0. But this blog shows how to use them with JSF 1.2.

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sun.com/students
is one-stop for all students interested in Sun Microsystems.



It has content related to all students:

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Alex De Marco is a happy
user of FREE 12-months GlassFish Hosting @ OStatic. Here is
what he has to say:



Many thanks to OStatic
and LayeredTech for offering free hosting, and to Sun for providing a
powerful yet free application development stack: Glassfish, Java,
MySQL, and OpenSolaris. VERY MUCH appreciated!



You can avail this exclusive and limited-time offer here!


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TOTD
#42 explained how to create a simple Java Server Faces
application using NetBeans 6.1 and deploy on GlassFish. In the process
it explained some basic
JSF concepts as well. If you remember, it built an application that
allows you to create a database of cities/country of your choice. In
that application, any city/country combination can be entered twice and
no errors are reported.


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TOTD
#42 explained how to create a simple Java Server Faces
application using NetBeans 6.1 and deploy on GlassFish. In the process
it explained some basic
JSF concepts as well. If you remember, it built an application that
allows you to create a database of cities/country of your choice. In
that application, any city/country combination can be entered twice and
no errors are reported.


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September is the month
of Java in Brazil. There are developer events and Java
conferences through out the country. And the month ends by kick
starting Sun
Tech Days in the city of Sao Paulo.
Kohsuke is already
in Brazil and here is my schedule:


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