My interest in Ruby was aroused after I read an article Ruby the Rival in November 2005. I decided to learn Ruby myself and started making my own Ruby study notes. With inputs from my PuneRuby members and the Ruby-Talk mailing list, I could polish these notes and are now available to whoever is interested,

In this article, the authors show you how to use Spring to help you develop a simple, clean, web-based user interface. Spring is a lightweight container, with wrappers that make it easy to use many different services and frameworks. Read the full story here - What is Spring?

In Disney's Aladdin Chess Adventures, releasing on the 4th of November 2005 on PC CDROM, the chessboard becomes a magic portal to an enchanting, interactive world where kids can journey through Aladdin's magical world while learning the classic game of chess. See the full article here - Aladdin Brings Chess to Life .

Alexander Wolfe writes that Microsoft has signed on to promote a new programming language - The Kid's Programming Language, or KPL, intended to replace BASIC as the first step students take towards learning how to code. Indeed, KPL's affinity for .NET, and the fact that it runs only on Windows, may be the big reason Microsoft is supporting the new language. KPL, was developed under the direction of Jonah Stagner, and his colleagues, ex-Microsoft program manager Jon Schwartz and

Calling Chess bloggers - how about setting up a loosely coupled distributed blogging network type thing, using Technorati's (http://www.technorati.com/tag/) new tagging feature? How about using a virgin tag like ChessBlogs? Then apply the same tag to our Flickr photos (http://www.flickr.com/), Del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us/) bookmarks and so on, and hey presto - a new Chess group