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Three major projects in the air at one time is close to my limit. Doing a lot of juggling these days. But it’s fun!
- Is Windows a First-Class Platform for Ruby?- Peter Cooper asks the question. The answers bring out the best and worst of the Ruby community.
- Introducing Whistler - Whitelist markup filter that works in merb (or elsewhere).
- Become an Xcoder, Leopard Edition - Free ebook I could have used a while ago.
- Managing SEO-Friendly HTML Titles with Rails - A small discussion of the ways to do this.
- Phusion Passenger (a.k.a. mod_rails for Apache) Preview - Rails deployment on Apache will become a good deal easier when this ships. Right now you can watch a demo movie.
It’s safe to say that I’m not looking for more work at this point. When it rains, it pours.
- SCO: Will the Fat Lady Ever Sing? - Now that I’m writing for OStatic, I had a chance to get my own kicks in on the rotting corpse of SCO.
- iPhone Dev Center - Even though I have no concrete ideas, yesterday’s announcements made me interested in iPhone programming. Probably the effect of the reality distortion field combined with the $100 million number. But hey, I did just learn XCode and Cocoa.
I actually have a working Cocoa app that implements all the “must have” features. Moving on to the “nice to have” features now.
- Cocoa JSON Framework - I’m going to have to swap some data between the Cocoa app and a merb site. Looks like this makes it easy, since merb can do native JSON output of anything. I looked into using YAML, but the only existing Cocoa YAML code doesn’t seem to have been revised in several years. I could use a ruby class to do the import, but why not stick to all native Objective C?
- Mac Help Writer - The help authoring scene on OS X is much bleaker than on Windows. This is the best one I’ve found; it builds nice-looking standard help files for the Mac, but I can tell I’m going to be hand-editing HTML files to do anything tricky, as it hits its limits quickly. I looked at several other applications that run on OS X, but they’re all cross-platform, building help files that look like WinHelp in an OS X container. That’s a fail.
- Capistrano 2.2.0 Preview - Eek, I’m not done grokking 2.0 yet. Fortunately the changes are minimal, mainly better git support.
- scope-out-rails - Plugin for adding easy scopes to your models.
QuickTime portion of the Cocoa app is working now. Today’s task: figure out the FTP portion.
- Embedded Cocoa Frameworks - Video tutorial showing how to get a private framework to actually embed itself in your compiled app. I’m sure this information is somewhere in the copious Apple docs, but darned if I could find it.
- Connection Kit - Open-source Cocoa framework bringing some sanity to FTP, SFTP, WebDav, Amazon S3, and some other network protocols. (via Matt Long)
- CoRD - Open source RDP client for the Mac. One less reason to visit the Windows desktop. (I may some day get rid of the remote Windows servers, but for the moment I’m stuck with them).
Ran into a bunch of stuff over the weekend…
- Using SQL Server With A Rails Application - Another quick tutorial from the Ruby in Steely guys, for folks who are still working somewhat in the Microsoft universe.
- Learn Cocoa II - A slightly deeper dive into Objective-C.
- ActiveWarehouse 0.2.0 and AW-ETL 0.5.1 - New releases of these tools for building data warehouses with Rails.
- Rails-Based ‘Code Snippets’ Sold to DZone - Good to see a business success story here inasmuch as I’m hoping to make a business somewhere in this field.
- 10 steps to get Ruby on Rails running on Windows with IIS FastCGI - The Microsoft IIS team has added experimental and untested support to the latest Tech Preview of their FastCGI implementation, for those of you who are determined to have Rails applications running on Windows boxes. Currently works on Windows Server 2003 only.
- Rails Documenting - If you have suggestions for the paid Rails documentation project’s priorities you should follow that link to make them.
Learn Cocoa is a baby steps tutorial to building a simple Cocoa app (well, really, just sticking some components together, but it introduces the toolset). I’ll probably work through it, though at the moment I don’t have any particular ideas about Mac desktop apps that I’d want to build.
