You are currently browsing the monthly archive for September, 2007.
Yep, I’m still here, though you wouldn’t know it from my lack of postings. Pre-move preparations (we’re headed from Washington state to Indiana on October 6) are taking an increasing amount of scarce time. But, I’m still doing all of my work in non-Microsoft pastures and loving it. I just don’t have nearly as much time to chase links as I’d like. This should change in a month or so.
Also, a bit of advance warning: A Fresh Cup will be going offline from October 4 until I’m not sure when, as the server that it’s running on will be packed and moving across the country with me. Moving the site to a remote server is one of those “nice to have” tasks that has fallen off the bottom of the list.
- URL Conventions - As used by RESTful URLs in Rails. Beware, these are the Edge conventions - if you’re working in 1.2.3, pay attention to the little note at the top about semicolons. (via Less Everything)
- Database Conventions - Roundup of some of the Rails magic. This helped me out when I unwittingly used “type” as a column name. (The simple answer is “don’t do that.”)
- CodeGear Releases 3rdRail - Another IDE enters the fray. I’d check it out, except that I simply do not trust Borland to continue supporting any product over the long haul; they have too much history of abruptly dropping things when their strategic direction changes. I’ve been burned too many times to use them as a vendor for anything now.
Mad whirlwind of move preparation is starting to get in the way of regular posting, but here are a few more things I’ve bookmarked lately…
- Is Free Beer Possible? - Discussion of the state of Rails documentation, to which I really ought to contribute (both the discussion and the documentation) when I get a few free moments.
- Easier Timezone support in Rails - Client-side solution to displaying server timestamps sensibly.
- Firebug 1.1 beta - The next step in everyone’s favorite in-browser javascript debugger.
Where did all these browser tabs come from? Rabbits, I say, rabbits…
- Ruby on Rails vs Django - Commercial #7 - Who says Rails developers don’t like any other frameworks?
- Railsify - A new repository for Rails plugins. (via Ruby Inside)
- DRAFT: Rails Code Review PDF - Peepcode is branching out from screencasts to minibooks. This one looks like an excellent start.
- ActiveState Announced Open Komodo Project: Open Source, Open Web, and Open Dev Tools - ActiveState is launching an open-source client side web development tool integrated with FireFox and based on their own Komodo IDE.
8 months in to retooling my career, and things are still going well, if a trifle hectic:
- Both of the clients I’ve been doing Rails work for have extended their initial contracts with additional work, which strikes me as a pretty good vote of confidence.
- I’ve started building out another Rails application that we’ll be using as a springboard for a new business as my better half transitions careers herself.
- The prospect of work in Second Life remains live, though on the back burner as the prospective client is still getting corporate funding in place. I had another promising chat the other day though, and continue to hone my skills (and have fun) on that platform.
- Daily postings at Web Worker Daily are keeping me in practice as a short-order writer, as well as bringing in a bit of side income.
- Life is more chaotic than usual, with our impending move to Evansville, Indiana being set for about a month from now.
It may be Labor Day in the States, but I’m in front of a computer with too many browser tabs open anyhow.
- Aptana Milestone 9 - Plenty of active development going on in this Web IDE.
- Capistrano 2.1 Preview #1 - Capistrano development is just charging along.
- Rails Plugin: Acts_As_Indexed - Boolean-queried full-text indexing with no dependencies on an external indexing engine.
- Integrating the PayPal API with Ruby on Rails - Twelve bucks, but something I’m going to need to do soon, and I’m contemplating buying a copy to short-circuit the learning curve.
