Ruby on Rails has taken the web development world by storm since its first full release in 2005. Yet with new web platforms arriving each day, usage share of frameworks has become quite fragmented. So in this post, I compiled the latest trends and figures of Ruby on Rails from different sources, as well as some stats of the Ruby language.

We held the second Java meetup for Exist developers last 18 April 2012 at the TechBar in Ortigas. It was attended by software engineers from different projects, team leads and business analysts.

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We're an organization driven to achieve extraordinary feats. Born out of the passion to build brilliant Filipino engineers, we are devoted to pursuing the advancement of IT in the Philippines. Everyone on the team is multi-talented and superb at what they do, literally IT Rockstars. While we've been heavily involved in Open Source creation during our early years, our passion for technology has broadened our practice portfolio to include Ruby on Rails, iOS, and Android. We take pride in our work and we're inspired by our fellow "Exist-ers".

The term "enterprise" can have various connotations. I take it to mean large scale, corporate, high availability and mission critical. Going back to its history, Ruby on Rails is an opinionated software. It makes the assumption that there is a “best” way to do things, and it’s designed to encourage that way – and in some cases to discourage alternatives. From day one, it didn't try to please everyone especially the enterprise. 

#Singapore (and China) are more rapidly aging than other countries in Asia Pacific. Here's an interesting research paper: Singapore’s Changing Structure and the Policy Implications for Financial Security, Employment, Living Arrangements and Health Care. Because of this, remote consultation may see an uptake in Singapore in the next 5 years.

In the hopes of making headway in the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the Philippine healthcare market, the Philippine Healthcare Insurance Corporation or PhilHealth launched October last year the first phase of its e-claims project dubbed the "Claims Eligibility Web Service" or CEWS. According to PhilHealth, the CEWS will allow a hospital (or any accredited healthcare provider) to validate a patient's member registration and contributions with PhilHealth immediately, thereby "reducing turnaround time in eligibility verification as well as reducing the number of return-to-hospital (RTH) claims".

An iPad app for this, an iPad app for that. But vertical-wise, as Apple clearly knows, medicine and healthcare is where iPad's bright future is at.

Ruby on Rails has emerged as one of the hottest technologies for quite a few years now. Going on eight years, Ruby on Rails is quickly moving into new arenas: major applications in everything from e-commerce to productivity to content, to name a few. Although the growth of Ruby on Rails has become a debatable topic among the experts, we can't deny the fact that demand for these skills have picked up significantly and still seeing the most growth in jobs of any language out there.