Status update on Ruby Zen (Ruby Appliance, remember?)

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

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A few days before New Years, I posted how neat it’d be if we had a Ruby Appliance. This, and the mail to the ruby-talk mailing list has resulted in a couple of results already.
For one, we found a name: Ruby Zen, which fits quite well, and is appropriately Web 2.0 without being [...]

Adopt A Library: ClothRed

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Right. I want to, but I really can’t get to it.
ClothRed is in dire need of help. Your help.
I simply don’t have the time, or will–truth be told–to begin work on ClothRed again. The code’s become foreign to me, way too foreign, and I have to get back into the thick of things, to write [...]

A Ruby Appliance

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

What is an “Appliance”?
In this context, an appliance is a ready-to-run virtual machine. No set up to speak of required.
But why? Isn’t it easy to install Ruby wherever you like?
That is very true.
However, the Ruby ecosystem is very *NIX centric. Not everyone has the luxury, or time or ability, to setup and maintain a [...]

RMM: Huh?

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

The Twitter/Ruby on Rails world is abuzz with the “Rails Maturity Model”.
So, curious fellow that I am, I have taken a look at the website.
And I’m left with a big “huh?”
Yes, that’s right, I have no idea what it is about. And I have the feeling that I’m not alone in this. A lot of [...]

It’s not plain text, okay?

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

I just read an article about a testing framework called “Cucumber” (In moments like this I hate the creativity of the Ruby community. Explain this to your boss, sometime..), on the Giant Robots Smashing into Giant Robots blog.
The article, which is un-surprising good in the technical aspect, claimed that the testing framework is able to [...]

Kicking off the blog (and the project, too)

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

I promised myself, that I’d chronicle my efforts in developing a project from start to finish.
Well, this won’t quite work out, since I already have the contract in hand.
However, I’ll write up what I am going to do, what I am doing, and the milestones reached. Well, a software development blog.
So, what’s the [...]