Today we managed to get Placeaware.com ready to release to the world. It’s an interactive trip planner with some nifty features. Play around with a few of the live sites or watch the screen cast.
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Today we managed to get Placeaware.com ready to release to the world. It’s an interactive trip planner with some nifty features. Play around with a few of the live sites or watch the screen cast.
Tofu’s mystery project, a jabber based chess game/environment, finally went beta yesterday. It’s called chesspark, go check it out.
Pardon any oddities, an upgrade is in progress so that I can play with Widgets and maybe simplify some things.
My latest time sink has been the Charleston Wiki. It was nice that we could get that going so fast and participation has been growing. I’ve also been working on Co.ntact.us. Maybe I’ll have something barely usable soon, so I can get some feedback.
I was frustrated with Bloglines issues a while back and switched to a self hosted install of Gregarius. Gregarius has it’s own set of issues to work through, but at least with access to the code you “can” fix them and it is being actively developed.
First some changes….
After long consideration, I’ve decided to leave Livejournal and host this blog myself. For everyone(all 2 of you) that read my blog on LJ, I’ll continue to cross post for a while and get around to customizing this WP install eventually but, unlike LJ, at least I can customize.
And now the [...]
Updated my LJ theme to include tags. Have fun tagging all my posts.
Recaping where my first Rails post left off, we had a functioning albeit boring application. In this post we’ll expand the applicaton to include the comment table.
More code generation
In the previous post we used Rails to generate a portion of our application:
$ ruby script/generate model Post
$ ruby script/generate controller posts
Then used “scaffold :post” in [...]
Installation
Since Rails is now in Debian Unstable(sid), not much to say about installation. It’s as easy as:
apt-get install rails
Database
The blog application needs two tables: posts, comments. Following the Rails recommended table and column naming conventions is a good idea and will save even more time later. Every table should be named in the plural, [...]