If the thought of diving into yet another hot new technology gives you a headache, I sympathize. I’ve stuck mainly to PHP and Perl for years, happily ignoring most other development fads. However, I’m ...

When newsmen think of Markos Moulitsas, they think of him as a liberal activist, maybe a blogger. In this they are mistaken. He is, in fact, an entrepreneur, using open source to build a content ...

App dev: Martin Heller has an update on Ruby on Rails IDEs. Those would be Aptana IDE + Rails (nee RadRails), Ruby in Steel and ActiveState Komodo. “The Rails IDE market is continuing to evolve ...

Criminals are using an old weakness in the Ruby on Rails web application framework to recruit vulnerable servers into a botnet. Developers running Ruby on Rails should install an update that was ...