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 [...]
Filed under: English Language Posts, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Software development by Phill
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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 [...]
Filed under: Adopt A Library, English Language Posts, HTML, Rails, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Software development, [R|T]DD by Phill
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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 [...]
Filed under: Development Tools, English Language Posts, Ruby, Software development, Virtualization, Windows by Phill
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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 [...]
Filed under: Rails, Rantings, Society & Culture, Software development by Phill
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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 [...]
Filed under: Development Tools, English Language Posts, Rantings, Ruby, Software development, User story, [R|T]DD by Phill
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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 [...]
Filed under: Document management system, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Software development by Phill
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