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CodeGear, a division of Borland Software, is contributing a debugger to the Eclipse Foundation.CodeGear announced March 3 at the SD West 2008 conference in Santa Clara, Calif., that it funded the development of a new, fast Ruby debugger based on the ruby-debug gem.A CodeGear spokesman said the company believes that a high-performance debugger is an essential part of every developer’s tool kit, and company leaders wanted to fill this need.Read | Permalink... more

Developers are planning to use Web development and scripting or dynamic languages more than traditional procedural languages over the next 18 months, according to a recent survey conducted by Ziff Davis Enteprise.The survey, conducted in November, showed that the majority of developers--nearly 14 percent--surveyed said they plan to begin using AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and X M L) in the next 18 months.Read | Permalink TOP GUN WEBSPHERE PORTLET FACTORY TRAINING FROM DAVALENLearn to T... more

If you think you work harder than your boss, you’re in the vast majority, and according to some economic theory you’re probably right.According to a new poll from Monster.com, 77 percent of U.S. workers feel they toil longer and harder than those who sign their paychecks. Though Monster itself admits that their polling process isn’t the most scientific, the sentiment is sure to ring true with working stiffs.Read | Permalink... more

Sun Microsystems is hiring two expert dynamic language developers particularly versed in the development of the Python and off-shoot Jython languages.James Gosling, vice president and Sun Fellow, announced as part of his keynote at Sun Tech Days in Sydney that Ted Leung, an Apache Software Foundation (ASF) member and long-time Python developer at the Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF), and Frank Wierzbicki, lead implementer of the Jython project, will become Sun employees... more