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September 2007 - Posts

Friday, September 21, 2007 1:07 AM

Theme Support in Rails and a wild community!

It's amazing the stuff you find in the Rails community. I was thinking: "It would be nice to add the ability for themes in my Helpdesk app, so the user can suit the app to their needs..." My first thought was: "well, I'm on my own". Finding Matt Mccray's
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Thursday, September 20, 2007 12:45 AM

Typing Speed

Well I just couldn't help myself! My score: YOUR RESULTS ARE: Number of words typed: 200 Test duration: 3 min Speed: 66.6 words/min. (333 keystrokes/min.) Error penalty: 10 Accuracy: 95.0% I got very happy with it! :) Try it yourself . #124
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007 11:36 PM

Having a Blast with Rails

I'm writing a SaaS Service Desk application in order to properly learn Ruby on Rails. So far it's been a very pleasant ride. So as a SaaS application you know I must have tenents (single instance, multi-tenent) and that these tenents must not know about
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Monday, September 17, 2007 12:59 AM

Language Oriented Programming and Rails

My good friend Sadek Drobi pointed me out a very good article on Language Oriented Programming written by him. I like it very much and I'm not sure that LOP is the next big thing, but as Martin Fowler said it (in the end of the video), I do find it to
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Sunday, September 09, 2007 6:58 PM

Heaven on Rails?

I'm very positively surprised with Ruby on Rails. Every time I believe it can't astonish me any further, it does again. Check this excerpt from AWDWR (Agile Web Development with Rails): def self.authenticate(name, password) user = self.find_by_name(name)
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007 11:28 AM

Stormwind Project - AT LAST

I´m thrilled to announce that the Stormwind Project Community was born. It has been an intense work for both me and Cláudio Figueiredo (BTW buddy, A HUGE THANK YOU!!!). Even being so much work, it´s been REALLY rewarding to watch as the community takes
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Monday, September 03, 2007 2:36 AM

Agile, Agile, Agile

Just saw a GREAT video by David Hussman and Tor Stenstad on a multi-million dollar project using Agile and how it helped them improve on a previous RUP-based approach. They focus on some key principles that I really liked: Support from Business is crucial.
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Sunday, September 02, 2007 1:46 AM

How would you eat an elephant?

In small iterations, that's HOW! I just bought myself "Agile Web Development with Rails" by Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier. What an amazing book, so far (page 82). I gotta admit that I'm pretty impressed with how Rails handles development. I never thought
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