Ruby Hero Awards

Reasons to nominate someone

• They write educational blog posts / tutorials
• They contribute to a useful open source project
• They help organize educational events
• They give free support on the mailing list / IRC

Ruby Heroes was created to show some gratitude and give these people the recognition they deserve. Hopefully the type of recognition that keeps them doing what they’re doing, and continuing to make our community stronger.

Time has come to nominate such person for an honorary award.

Ruby Heroes is produced by the guys over at Rails Envy, and coded up by Brandon Beacher.

To nominate someone, click here.

Rank of programming languages & TIOBE

The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, MSN, Yahoo!, and YouTube are used to calculate the ratings. Observe that the TIOBE index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written.

The index can be used to check whether your programming skills are still up to date or to make a strategic decision about what programming language should be adopted when starting to build a new software system. The definition of the TIOBE index can be found here

Rank Mar 2008	Rank Mar 2007	Delta in Position	Programming Language	Ratings Mar’08	Delta Mar’07	Status
1	1	=	Java	20.651%	+2.61%	A
2	2	=	C	15.593%	-0.04%	A
3	5	++	Visual Basic	10.795%	+2.65%	A
4	4	=	PHP	10.138%	+0.68%	A
5	3	–	C++	9.776%	-1.33%	A
6	6	=	Perl	5.781%	-0.64%	A
7	7	=	Python	4.593%	+0.70%	A
8	9	+	C#	4.143%	+0.78%	A
9	12	+++	Delphi	2.697%	+0.94%	A
10	10	=	Ruby	2.661%	-0.11%	A
11	8	—	JavaScript	2.462%	-1.02%	A
12	14	++	D	1.107%	-0.16%	A
13	13	=	PL/SQL	0.747%	-0.80%	A
14	11	—	SAS	0.630%	-1.22%	A-
15	18	+++	COBOL	0.615%	-0.03%	A-
16	21	+++++	Pascal	0.554%	-0.01%	B
17	17	=	Ada	0.485%	-0.17%	B
18	16	–	Lisp/Scheme	0.434%	-0.29%	B
19	19	=	FoxPro/xBase	0.423%	-0.18%	B
20	25	+++++	Lua	0.385%	-0.01%	B

Open Source Magazing:Free download

Issue 9 looks at Open Source Publishing, using o3 magazine as a case study. This issue looks at creating documents with Scribus, collaborative document editing with OpenOffice, creating graphics for publication with the GIMP and creating newsletters with OpenOffice.

Features include:

• Creating Newsletters with OpenOffice
• Open Source Publishing with Scribus
• Collaborative Document Editing
• GIMP created graphics for Publishing

Click here to download it.