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RubyOnRails has got its momentum - that’s for sure. Hundreds of developers worldwide are screaming about beauty of ROR. About how great and ideal this neat framework is. How MVC it is. How Web 2.0 it is (”if you don’t use RubyOnRails you’re not really web 2.0″ - huh?). And of course (!) about how shitty and messy and (%just put some random bad words here%) other frameworks and programming languages are.

But how much of it is marketing hype, and how many of those are hard cold facts? There’s a never-ending battle “ruby vs. rest of the world” going on out there, and we don’t want to add our bits to it. We agree RubyOnRails IS very nice framework. It DOES have some extremely interesting programming ideas and solution built in. But is it SO damn good to abandon every other web programming language like Java or PHP? We seriously doubt it.

We think that for some people, Ruby really IS the programming language of choice. But for majority of people (usually those with the loudest voice ) Ruby isn’t really about best programming techniques. Its about grass being greener somewhere else. Its about wild west where everything is so fresh, and so colorful - until after few years… its not so colorful anymore

Why? Because however great RubyOnRails wouldn’t be - its still just a framework. And in truth, you can do EVERYTHING - every single thing - that is there in RubyOnRails on any other web development platform like PHP or Java. It’s not about programming language guys. Its about software engineering. Its about how well can you organize your code - not which fancy shirts do you wear this season.

Take a look at this story - we seriously think, its just the beginning of RubyOnRails “recession”. Something which might be “live or die” experience for the whole RubyOnRails community.

Utility computing & virtualization seems to be the hot topic these days. Especially when it provides powerful resources while keep being easy to manage for admin’s and end-users. Today hardware scalability issues are becoming more and more critical for many web companies out there, and having an easy way to up- (and DOWN-) scale on-demand is something that whole lot of them would probably like to do.

A company called 3tera claims to have a solution to that problem - offering really stunning grid / utility computing services along with very user-friendly yet still powerfull browser-based user interface. I that sounds like an interesting topic for you - I strongly encourage you to check their AppLogic product demo - it does look pretty impressive!