The date has been set for June 25th and my flight has been booked for our Building of Basecamp workshop. A whole day to pick the brains of the team behind Basecamp on a wide variety of subjects from development to design to marketing. I'll of course be talking at length about Ruby and Rails both during and after the workshop itself. Perhaps we'll...

The date has been set for June 25th and my flight has been booked for our Building of Basecamp workshop. A whole day to pick the brains of the team behind Basecamp on a wide variety of subjects from development to design to marketing. I'll of course be talking at length about Ruby and Rails both during and after the workshop itself. Perhaps we'll...

Admitted, it's Yet Another Wiki Clone, but with a strong focus on simplicity of installation and running: Download Run "instiki.rb 2505" Chuckle... "There's no step three!" (TM) You're now running a perfectly suitable wiki on port 2505 that'll present you with a textarea for the home page on entering. No web-server or database to configure. All...

Florian writes after reading about how the Active Record implementation in Rails works:i dont see how active record is not marrying your bussiness objects with the orm solution. quite frankly i think its even worse with active record, because you marry each indidual business object to active record, since each one inherits from ActiveRecord::Base...

Jeg kan godt lide, hvordan du I én sætning både formår at antyde, at Ruby er en passerende fase ("seneste besættelse") samt at sproget er ligegyldigt eller i bedste fald overflødigt ("endnu et fortolket scriptsprog"). På den måde så har man da sikret sig ikke at skulle besvære sit intellekt med den byrde rent faktisk at kigge nærmere...

Jeg kan godt lide, hvordan du I én sætning både formår at antyde, at Ruby er en passerende fase ("seneste besættelse") samt at sproget er ligegyldigt eller i bedste fald overflødigt ("endnu et fortolket scriptsprog"). På den måde så har man da sikret sig ikke at skulle besvære sit intellekt med den byrde rent faktisk at kigge nærmere...

As a Ruby developer, the tune of all these trumpets heralding the coming of SimpleXML in PHP5 sounds a bit out of key. Gutmans and Suraki from Zend gets really carried away in the introduction to PHP 5: PHP 5 also introduces new revolutionary ways of dealing with XML that make it the ideal platform for XML processing—no other solution comes...

As a Ruby developer, the tune of all these trumpets heralding the coming of SimpleXML in PHP5 sounds a bit out of key. Gutmans and Suraki from Zend gets really carried away in the introduction to PHP 5: PHP 5 also introduces new revolutionary ways of dealing with XML that make it the ideal platform for XML processing—no other solution comes...

Since trackbacks hasn't yet been enabled on Loud Thinking, I thought I'd do some manual recognition of the latest round of link-love for Rails, Ruby, and Basecamp. Adrian Spinei writes in Scripting languages not just for toys: According to David Heinemeier Hansson, the RAILS 1KLOC (!) web framework written in Ruby was used to develop Basecamp, a...

MVC is a pattern for separating the three basic concerns of a web application into isolated tiers, which can be constructed, tweaked, and tested apart from the others. MVC is short for Model, View, Control. The model is composed of business classes, such as Person, Project, Account. The Project class has methods like has_milestones?, save,...

MVC is a pattern for separating the three basic concerns of a web application into isolated tiers, which can be constructed, tweaked, and tested apart from the others. MVC is short for Model, View, Control. The model is composed of business classes, such as Person, Project, Account. The Project class has methods like has_milestones?, save,...

I gave a presentation to Madsen-Mygdal, Guan, and Husager today over brunch on that upcoming Ruby web-framework I've been developing in conjunction Basecamp. It's probably a somewhat different experience just watching the slides without my 4-hour oral presentation accompanying it, but it'll have to do. Hopefully it won't be too long before I'm...

What Ruby lacks more than anything is good starting points for getting into the language. There's a bunch of absolutely excellent resources out there, though. I've attempted to summarize the best of them by category.Language (latest release by time of writing: 1.8.1)All: Source release for any platform Windows: Ruby Installer for Windows OS X:...

When programmers speak of code as ugly or beautiful they reveal an appreciation of software that goes much deeper than the functionalistic appearance of their work. There are plenty of obvious and objective correlations between ugly and opaque code and defects and extendability, but the individual and psychological effects are at least equally...

When programmers speak of code as ugly or beautiful they reveal an appreciation of software that goes much deeper than the functionalistic appearance of their work. There are plenty of obvious and objective correlations between ugly and opaque code and defects and extendability, but the individual and psychological effects are at least equally...