It’s good to see that interest in both of these frameworks continues to grow. Here is a quote from the article (bold added by me):
In the Web design and development area, it’s worth noting that Ruby on Rails has continued its blazing growth, but Ajax books have not. The decline of both PHP and ASP are striking. Flash and Dreamweaver are also down, but as noted above, awaiting the CS3 release. Flex is starting to show its muscle.
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Well, there is only one King of the Internet(though he is retired), but at least I can be King of the Adobe Flex Developer Center … for about a month anyway. I am one of the first three developers to be included in Developer Spotlight that Adobe is running.
I imagine I have very little chance of winning considering I am going up against such heavyweights as Renaun Erickson and Yakov Fain, but I am honored just to be included.
So, vote early and vote often!
Hobo is a framework that sits on top of Rails that makes application development with Rails even faster. Here is the description of Hobo from the website:
What is Hobo?
Hobo is an Open Source extension to Ruby on Rails which helps you build full blown web applications incredibly quickly and easily. Available as a Gem or Rails plugin, Hobo provides a simple, clean and elegant development framework which allows for rapid prototyping or production of the most sophisticated web applications.
Main Features:
* Rapid implementation of dynamic Ajax interfaces in your application with no extra programming.
* Switchable themes. Customise and tweak your application structure and layout to meet any design goals.
* Powerful mark-up language, DRYML, combines rapid development with ultimate design flexibility. The end of the cookie cutter blues!
There are some pretty impressive videos of Hobo in action up on the Hobo website. You can view them here.
