The technologies

The following summary of technologies are the ones I have chosen to specialize in. Either together, or in different combinations, they allow for a wide variety of applications to be build. The projects page has a few examples of web sites and applications where they can be seen in action.

Ruby on Rails is a framework for developing database-backed web applications. It is designed to make web development faster, simpler and more efficient.

Adobe Flex is a framework for building web applications with rich user interfaces, while Adobe Air is a runtime that allows web applications to be decoupled from the browser and run on the desktop.

For building pure old-fashioned desktop applications, there is JRuby, which is a Java powered Ruby implementation, combining the strenghts of both the extensive Java platform with the flexibility and expressiveness of the Ruby language.