[SpikeMonday] Ruby is as old as Java, Bill Joy on investing, JBoss laments on open source pitfalls and grunting on the high seas

Would you believe it, yet another 10th birthday looms for our wonderful industry.  Daniel Hinojosa notes that Ruby is by far not a new language, despite all the current hype around Ruby-on-Rails.  Developed back in 1993 by Yukihiro Matsumoto and released in 1995 and according to its WikiPedia entry, the name derives from birthstones; were Peal (perl) is the birthstone for June, and Ruby is that of July.  So since Ruby has been around the block, maybe it is the second coming afterall with it failing to capture the mainstream imagination the first time around.  More details and history can be found here:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_language

SpikeSource's very own Bill Joy was recently interviewed by NerdTV, on the subject of funding and investments.  The interview has a very raw and real feel to it and lots of interesting nuggets popping through.  For example the notion that venture capitalists don't necessarily sit and hold council waiting for businesses to come to them, they actively go out looking for opportunities themselves.  Read the full interview here:

• http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/transcripts/003.html

Drew Ladner, General Manager over at JBoss, sat down with Alan Joch, of LinuxInsider, and discussed the Top 5 common pitfalls companies make when adopting open source solutions.  For example, failure to properly plan for projects, with a misconception being that since their inhouse guys have access to the source code, they can easily fix/patch any problems that come along in house.  However, the sheer logistics behind this is something they soon realise that having the source code available to them is a false security.  Read the full article here:

• http://www.linuxinsider.com/../Open-Source-Software-Five-Common-Mistakes.xhtml

You would think that if you were some 30 miles out in the middle of the ocean, with not another person around, you could pretty much do what you want without feeling guilty.  Hell you could even watch that rather tasty educational video you always wanted to. Except that is, if you happen to accidentally turn the emergency transmitter signal on your fishing boat and alert the UK coastguards to the problem to the point where they send out a lifeboat to rescue the men from all the grunting and screaming that was coming from the radio!  You just never know who is watching or listening!  Full story here

• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/4280806.stm

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