Java versus Ruby versus PHP Trends

April 5th, 2006 An interesting chart comparing available jobs for these four popular languages - java, php, python and ruby. All of them are extensively used for web application development.

July 7th, 2006 Google has passed Microsoft in popularity since beginning of 2005. What is even more surprising is their rate of growth and slow decline of Microsoft.

December 18th, 2005 JRuby is a project to watch for. It implements Ruby on Java virtual machine.

July 12th, 2007 All these three languages are generating a lot of buzz in the blogosphere. It appears Java is currently having an upswing while Ruby is having a downward trend.

June 30th, 2006 Most Java programmers attempt to use Ruby like they use Java, similar to the mistakes C/C++ programmers commit when transitioning to Java. However Ruby provides a cleaner programming paradigm which if embibed can be effectively used to solve your problems.

August 10th, 2006 Rob Sanheim commented on Java & Ruby communities. Ruby has Dr.

July 31st, 2006 jEdit is a popular Java based code editor. I have used it extensively and highly recommend it.

September 14th, 2005 Indian cricket is again hounded by match fixing allegations. At least three cricketers(one batsman and two bowlers) are under the scanner according to The Times of India.

March 25th, 2006 Ruby and ROR fanatics have adopted a highly annoying habit of luring hapless readers with highly provocative titles like "Ruby is not ready for production. Definitive proof".

January 10th, 2004 On the old debate - C# versus Java

March 10th, 2008 It was well known that there is a significant amount of Java development in Bangalore these days. However it took me by surprise to find that it may actually be a world leader in terms of amount of Java and India too as a country.

March 4th, 2009 Nokia sells more than one in every three cellphones sold over the globe. But it could not achieve a popularity anywhere near the popularity of the iPhone.

July 19th, 2006 Java increased its lead as the leading programming language according to TIOBE's index. PHP maintained its 4th position while Ruby moved up 13 positions to 17th.

October 11th, 2005 In the VSLive Conference in Orlando, BJ Holtgrewe, Senior Production Manager for Visual Studio made some outrageous claims like: Holtgrewe's chat was also peppered with competitive messages, noting that U.S. DevTracker found that 53 percent of software development is being done on .NET these days, leaving Java scrambling for the remainder of the pie.

June 20th, 2006 When you are coding a C extension for Ruby, and you use mkmf to create your Ruby Makefile on a Solaris box, make install may fail. Solution: Add -lsocket -lnsl after -lingres.