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Ajaxian Mar 05 09 Bob Remeika pointed us to his recent labor of love: Drails:
Introducing Dojo support for Ruby on Rails!
drails is a helper library for using Dojo alongside Rails. It provides a Dojo implementation for all of the Rails helpers that would normally generate Prototype/Scriptaculous code so now ajaxifying your Rails application with Dojo is as simple [...] Full story...
Node.js employs an event-driven architecture and a non-blocking I/O model, and it provides some blindingly fast performance to some types of data-intensive Web apps.
HP continues to divulge bits and pieces of a road map for the ill-starred and nearly-orphaned webOS. The company has followed up its December plan to release webOS mobile platform and development tools with a proposed timeline, with a full release set before year’s end.
Shim was developed within the Boston Globe’s media lab as a way to study how Web sites look on various devices and browsers.
Facebook Software Engineer and HipHop for PHP team member Jason Evans provides details on Facebook’s move to a new high-performance PHP virtual machine.