Heroku launches its own cloud service for Ruby
Heroku is all set to take on Google by offering its own cloud service for Ruby applications.
This service would be somewhat similar to Google App Engine which also provides provisionless Web hosting.
Heroku is using the infrastructure provided by Amazon Web Services for their platform.
The company said [...]

Ruby on Rails 2.2 released
The developers behind the programming language Ruby on Rails have released a new version.
Ruby on Rails is in version 2.2 now.
The developers said that the latest edition of Ruby on Rails come with an internationalization framework and stronger support for HTTP validators.
Also included in this release are thread [...]

NetBeans IDE to support Python and Jython
Sun Microsystems has announced that they would add support for Python and Jython in their future releases of open-source NetBeans IDE.
This application is also going to get support for (or already supports) JavaScript, Ruby, JRuby, NetBeans, C and C++.
Company representative Kuldip Oberoi said in a blog post: “Python is [...]