Double Shot #54

Posted by Mike
Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (5 for 2)

In case it hasn’t been blindingly obvious, I’m ready to start talking to folks about Rails contracting. If you’ve got work on the web that needs doing, let’s chat.

Double Shot #25

Posted by Mike
Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (5 for 2)

Spent a chunk of last night trying to figure out the major e-commerce systems in Second Life. It really is a whole different world in there.

  • A peek in the rear-view mirror – I try not to be gratuitously snarky about Microsoft here, but you know, sometimes it’s just too tasty to avoid.
  • Apollo – Adobe’s new whiz-bang Web/desktop development language, now in alpha. In a year, maybe I’ll kick myself for not getting out in front of the parade on this one, but you know, I’ve never yet met an Adobe development environment I actually liked to work with.
  • Ruby on Rails Caching Tutorial – Part 2 – More in-depth advice from the Rails Envy folks.
  • No code left untested – Extension to Rails’ controller generator to make it generate test files for helpers.

Double Shot #24

Posted by Mike
Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (5 for 2)

It was an interesting weekend, watching the Twitterverse and blogging and Second Life all sort of melt together. Not sure where the business case is yet but all this energy must mean something.

  • SLeek – A non-graphical Second Life client, a rather bizarre spinoff of the fact that Linden Labs has open-sourced the viewer code.
  • Rails don’t know testing and Battle Royale – Testing – The folks over at GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS are taking a long hard look at Rails testing, and coming up with some ideas to add both sophistication and streamlining to the usual practices.
  • Haml 1.5 – New release of this terse replacement for other templating languages (like rhtml) in Rails applications. I don’t think my brain is quite ready for another layer of abstraction yet, no matter how powerful it is.