Web Dev Digest Episode 7
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Welcome to the Web Dev Digest, your daily web development news roundup.
 This is episode number seven, for Thursday, July fifth, 2007.
 I'm your host, Ara Pehlivanian.
 
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Happy Cog looking for a PM
Jeffrey Zeldman's web design company Happy Cog is looking for a project manager for its Philadelphia office. Among the job's requirements, you must be able to "communicate superbly, value great work and great client relationships, respect deadlines and the creative process, enjoy Basecamp and love Philadelphia". Further details can be found on the thirty-seven signals job board.


Rod Johnson on Java EE 6
Rod Johnson, creator of the Spring Framework and CEO of Interface twenty one, says that the proposed Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 6 (aka Java EE six) has gotten it right. The proposal that went before the Java Community Process for a second round of approval yesterday promises to solve a lot of issues that have emerged with Java EE over the past ten years. For example, Johnson points out that with the advent of innovative and rapidly changing technologies such as Ruby on Rails and even .NET; a cozy two to three year release cycle can imperil the entire platform. He believes that "the enterprise Java community should welcome Java EE 6, and should welcome Sun's willingness to move with the times."

Version 2.1 of the Alfresco CMS released

Version two point one of the open source, open-standards content repository Alfresco was released today. Features of the new release are geared toward opening the system up in different ways, such as new REST-based Content Services and UI components, an extended Javascript API, PHP Scripting Support, Office Word 2003 integration and more. 


Semantic Web: Web 3.0
The "Semantic Web: Web 3.0" event will be held at the Cubberley Community Center in Palo Alto on the 30th of July. The interactive panel will explore how the Semantic Web family of standards is quietly empowering the decades-old Model Driven Architecture community. It will also try to answer the question, "can the Semantic Web and Web 3.0 technology improve the ways we conceptualize, design, code, and generate enterprise software?" The two expert guest panelists are Dr Deborah McGuinness, Acting Director, Stanford Knowledge Systems Laboratory and Elisa Kendal, the President and CEO of Sandpiper Software.


The Beauty of Ruby
Glenn Vanderburg demonstrates some of the subtle beauty that experienced Rubyists know and love in a fifty four minute video presentation called "The Beauty of Ruby". Some of the points he covers include Ruby's rich yet flexible syntax, it's "lisp-y-ness", generalized matching and Ruby's powerful case statement and open classes and objects.


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 You've been listening to the Web Dev Digest, your daily web development news roundup.
 This was episode number seven, for Thursday, July fifth, 2007. I'm Ara Pehlivanian.
 Show notes with links to the news covered in this episode can be found on web dev digest dot net.