Archive: Outside the Box category
In response to Andy's comment, here's why I'm enjoying the ride on Rails.
Ruby. Once upon a time (and this time happened to be eight or nine months ago), I decided to learn Python. It didn't take long before I decided I'd never go back to Perl or ...
This next month is going to be a bit of a crunch, with several large projects to finish at work before I leave at the end of August. I guess that's why I haven't blogged here lately, but that's kind of dumb because work is coding and it should ...
From this blog it looks like Google's getting ready to launch gDrive (codenamed Platypus). Here are the features from the screenshot:
A filer for the whole world. But better.
Storing your files in Platypus has a number of advantages over storing your files on either your C: drive or ...
I've gotten a quick prototype of Beyond up even faster than I expected. It's the bare minimum, but it works, and wow, Ruby on Rails really is as cool as I thought it was. :) Did I really just get it up as fast as that? ...
On Saturday I spent the whole morning reading through Ruby on Rails API and a number of other resources which have made quite a difference in my understanding. The API was the biggest thing, though. So much of what I had questioned before now makes sense. The ...
I love it when I get into the coding groove and things just magically happen. This afternoon I spun together the new search interface I've been procrastinating on at work, and everything just came into place beautifully. And the interface design and graphic design even ended up being ...
Finally figured out the elusive bug that's been bothering me all day. In my code, I create an instance of my Family class (this is as I'm importing a GEDCOM into the database), which basically creates a record in the Families table. I kept trying to set the ...
I've been reading about RailsConf today. Dang, it sounds like it was really quite cool. I really liked Paul Graham's keynote, "The Power of the Marginal". And DHH's announcement about Active Resource (like Active Record but for web services) sounds exceedingly interesting. Can't wait ...
I'm finally starting to understand Rails! :)
Now that school's out I don't have any homework breathing down my neck, so this morning I got up early and decided to write a Rails app that takes a GEDCOM file (using an existing GEDCOM-to-XML parser) and imports it into a Beyond ...
I've been bemoaning the lack of a nice web app (or any web app, for that matter) which I could use to access my S3 storage. Then today I found filicio.us. It's new and simple, and it actually works. You can check out the demo ...
