Grails (Groovy on Rails)

Posted on June 26, 2007

Grails (Groovy on Rails) Last night I attended the MN Ruby Users' Meeting. The topic of interest for me was Groovy on Grails, a Rails-inspired framework for the Java platform based on Spring, Hibernate, Ant+Ivy, SiteMesh and of course Groovy.Groovy is a dynamic language that compiles to Java byte-code (unlike... [Read More]

Tickler Action File

Posted on June 25, 2007

Tickler Action File A post on LifeHack today described a possibly more efficient variation of a Tickler file. Rather than sorting by day, they suggest sorting by action. I agree completely and just started using a similar approach last week. I use Outlook tasks with the Categories field, and a... [Read More]

Rails with SQLite

Posted on June 25, 2007

Rails with SQLite It is ridiculously easy to setup SQLite with Rails. So, I recommend it for n00bs just experimenting with Rails over PostgreSQL. My choice to try it out was based mostly on the fact that I have a locked down workstation at my job, and that PHP ships... [Read More]

Working With Money Using Floating Point Numbers

Posted on June 12, 2007

Working With Money Using Floating Point Numbers While it seems like a n00bish lack of knowledge on my part, today I was told by a colleague that working with money using floating point numbers is Bad, mmm-kay. Curious and skeptical, I did a quick Google search and learned why this... [Read More]

Project Management as a Social Issue

Posted on June 11, 2007

Project Management as a Social Issue Just because I've been busy for a while and haven't had time to write, here's some blog-o-spam for you; comments on an article I read today.Here's an interesting article I came across on Reddit. It basically talks about how all the information needed to... [Read More]

Hacking on the Facebook Platform

Posted on June 2, 2007

Hacking on the Facebook Platform I've been toying with the Facebook Platform the the past few days and am impressed by it thus far, minus the lack of documentation and usage examples. I created a base class to extend applications from in order to get a feel for how application... [Read More]

Where are the comprehensive enterprise test suites?

Posted on June 1, 2007

Where are the comprehensive enterprise test suites? Note: this post is a work in progress.For the past several weeks I have been thinking a lot about automated testing as part of the development process. While I have had faith in software testing for some time, I guess I have never... [Read More]

Workflow-Enabled Rails Petstore

Posted on May 30, 2007

Workflow-Enabled Rails Petstore Note: this post is a work in progress.As an exercise for my book, Enterprise Ruby on Rails, I will be creating a workflow based implementation of the iBatis Petstore application. It will use OpenWFE4ru (aka Rufus) and Globalize, and be fully unit and integration tested. It will... [Read More]

LookMiiUp on Facebook Platform?

Posted on May 30, 2007

LookMiiUp on Facebook Platform? Last year, I made a site called "lookmiiup.com" that's for looking up a person's Wii number (like an ICQ# for a Wii; used to add friends and other stuff in the future) by identifiers like AIM name, phone number, etc. Yea, it's all but dead; I... [Read More]

Testing Rails - First Impression

Posted on May 28, 2007

Testing Rails - First Impression Note: This post is a work in progress.My first impression of the Rails testing framework was that it is the shit. Unfortunately I haven't been able to get it to work yet--my preferred database configuration is not supported by Rails/ActiveRecord. The configuration that I would... [Read More]