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BigUniverse.com - A Site Built Using Rails, OpenLaszlo and Other Open Source Tools

Big Universe® is an award winning web community devoted to beautiful children's picture books. Read hundreds of offerings from today's best children's book publishers, Create e-books with the help of an easy-to-use Author Tool, and Connect with other Big Universe members to share your creations and to learn what books they have read, created, or recommend.

 

Development Technologies : Java and Ruby

View a presentation from JavaOne 2008 (PDF; 8.4 MB), titled "From Java to Ruby... and Back." Learn how and why Java and Ruby work so well together.

Also, see crude performance benchmarks between these two languages.

Process: XP and Agile Modeling Based Comics

Click here to see an Agile Model Driven Development (AMDD) 8-week project illustrated using comics.

Book: Agile Java™ Development with Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse 

Thousands of copies sold!
Finalists in 2007 Java Developer's Journal Readers' Choice Awards.
Available in English, Chinese, Portuguese & German.

Download (.ppt/9.0MB, .pdf/46.9MB!) the 2-hour presentation based on this book ... delivered to over 1,600+ people in 4 continents (8 countries, 14 cities).

Read the sample chapters, forewords, testimonials, and more; and/or, download the time sheet application used in the book.

Polls

Click here to view global polls on topics such as Ruby, UML, IDEs, and more.

Concept: Build a Wiki System with Rails

Download RailsWiki (v0.5), a simple yet powerful Ruby based Wiki system built using the Rails, Crypt, and RedCloth gems. Features include basic file management, a text markup language for HTML formatting, blowfish cipher for storing encrypted wiki files on the server, CSS for easy style control, and more.

Read the original articles behind this application at DevX or participate in the open source project on RubyForge.
Concept: Agile Draw

A virtually notation-less freeform technique for conceptual modeling and marketing your design to others. Highly complementary to UML and Agile methods.

Concept: Continuous Software Construction Snapshot

The idea behind this concept is to show project stakeholders continuous progress of a software being constructed; it also allows developers to see where their piece fits into the big picture.

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