Finally I get to write a post about Delphi and Rails, at the same time.
Software Development>Press Room
CMP Media’s Software Development magazine today announced the finalists for this year’s Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards. The 89 finalists in 14 categories were chosen by a team of Software Development editors, columnists, and industry gurus.
I really, really enjoy the nominations of:
- Agile Web Development with Rails by Dave Thomas et al. (Books: Technical)
- Rails 1.0 (Web Development Tools)
- Borland Developer Studio 2006 (Development Environments)
- Borland Together 2006 for Eclipse (Design Tools and Modeling )
Agile Web Development with Rails is an excellent book which I can only recommend, even if you don’t work or project to work with Rails, even if you don’t do web development (yet)! It clearly shows out how a good tool/framework/idea can take life and grow.
About Rails, go check their website, is too much to say on a single line.
Borland Developer Studio 2006 or BDS2006 or Delphi 2006 seems to be a very good product (finally!) from Borland, and it includes a bunch of languages for 2 platforms (2,5 if you count the embrionary support for .Net Compact Framefork): Delphi and C++ for Win32, Delphi and C# for .Net 1.1. Asp.Net, Unit tests, refactorings, Live templates support and especially speed and stability can only make it a good competition to VS.NET or other tools.
Other nominations I find interesting or support:
- Google Maps API 2005 (Database Engines and Data Tools!)
- Eclipse SDK 3.1 (Development Environments)
- Fog Creek Copilot 1.2 (Utilities)
- Backbase Standard Edition 3.1 (Web Development Tools)
