JS FRAMEWORK

with

serious conventions

and design patterns implementations

• Concerto: it was developed as academic project and it has a live CD ISO
• Xibo: it is in launchpad, his community seems bigger than Concerto one

• Glimmer: simplified Desktop Development in Ruby. A JRuby DSL that enables authoring of user-interfaces using the platform-independent Eclipse SWT library
• Prawn: fast, Nimble PDF Generation For Ruby (I used it within Prawnto plugin for a project on Rails and I found it very simple and very productive)
• Cucumber: a reimplementation of RSpec’s story framework, based on Treetop, testing at his best.
  
• Crate: tool for building and packaging standalone statically compiled ruby appliations
• Journeta: a dirt simple library for peer discovery  and message passing  between Ruby  applications on a LAN
• NeverBlock: a library that allows developers to write non-blocking, concurrent code in a transparent manner.
• RAD: framework for programming the Arduino physcial computing platform using Ruby. RAD converts Ruby scripts written using a set of Rails-like conventions and helpers into C source code which can be compiled and run on the Arduino microcontroller (I think this library could be a good example how Ruby can be used also for low level programming and not only for very high level dev)
• Waves: it embraces HTTP and REST instead of trying hide them from you with one-size-fits-all abstractions. It provides a rich DSL for matching HTTP requests, more flexible than routing schemes, and a layered approach to mixing in just the architectural magic that your applications need
• Puppet: a system for automating system administration tasks
• RubyCocoa: a bridge between the Ruby and the Objective-C languages, allowing you to manipulate Objective-C objects from Ruby, and vice-versa. It lets you write full-stack Cocoa applications in Ruby and to write a Cocoa application that mixes Ruby and Objective-C
• Rush: is a replacement for the unix shell (bash, zsh, etc) which uses pure Ruby syntax
• Flay: it’s a Ruby code analyzer for structural similarities. Differences in literal values, names, whitespace, and programming style are all ignored. Code that flay reports as similar is a good candidate for refactoring
• Johnson: wraps JavaScript in a loving Ruby embrace
• MagLev: Ruby that scales, mystic for me now

But I cannot forget some of the main Ruby projects

• Ruby implementations:
  • IronRuby is a .NET implementation
  • JRuby is an 100% pure-Java implementation

• Web Application Framework: not only the master Rails but also:
  • Merb: the lightweight and powerful
  • Ramaze: the minimalistic
  • Mack Framework: built to aid in the development of distributed, portal-like applications that have a need for speed
• GUI development:
  • Ruby-Gnome2: bindings for the GNOME 2.0 development environment
  • MonkeyBars: a library that enables you to make use of Swing from JRuby
  • Shoes: is a tiny graphics toolkit, designed for beginners
  • FXRuby: it’s based on the FOX Toolkit
  • WxRuby: it’s based on the cross-platform [wxWidgets] C++ GUI framework
  • QtRuby: bindings to both the KDE API and the Qt APIs (is dying?!?)

And here you can find all RubyConf 2008 videos.

What the frack u’re waiting? take ur pc and start coding in Ruby.

• New Slang - The Shins
• Jesus Etc. - Wilco
• Your Ex-Lover Is Dead - Stars
• First day of my life - Bright Eyes
• Chicago - Sufjan Stevens
  
• Table and Chairs - Andrew Bird
• Hoppipola - Sigur Ros
• In The Aeroplan over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
• I will follow you into the dark -Death Cab for Cutie
• The Blower’s Daughter - Damien Rice

http://www.last.fm/bestof/2008

For metacritic this

http://www.metacritic.com/music/bests/2008.shtml

Fleet Foxes, MGMT, Bon Iver, Coldplay and so on.

For me? See my played at last.fm:

http://www.last.fm/user/vlain/charts?subtype=artists

Probably the best was a revival from The Strokes, Morissey, David Bowie, Beck and the discover of Stars, Devendra Banhart, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, MGMT, The Kooks, Ben Folds.

An easy saturday afternoon trying to render my house clean. Clean up the bathroom, the pavements and so on. The last thing is: iron, a little torture.

So subdue to my destiny I iron watching television and this movie starts: “The Last Valley” with two great actors Micheal Caine and Omar Sharif. A little surprise, a movie that I don’t know.

A story set in the17th centur:

People in a small German village in the last valley to    remain untouched by the devastating Thirty Years’  War try to exist in peace with a group of soldiers occupying the valley.

A story about war and a story about religion. A nice surprise in this common afternoon.

And remember as The Captain (Micheal Caine) says Father Sebastian: “God is a legend”.