Making the mental switch to REST

I finally played a bit with the REST part of Rails. Over the weekend, I made my first RESTful web app. How did it go? I don’t know. I don’t think I’ve yet made the mental switch. There’s a few things that bug me about REST, and I’m not sure I can put it in [...]

Martin Fowler RailsConf 2006 Keynote Address

Martin Fowler RailsConf 2006 Keynote Address
Very interesting speech.

CUSEC Follow-up

For those of you who missed CUSEC, another keynote is now available at
SOENlive, this time the great keynote from Kathy Sierra. The first keynote “Rails is Boring and Ruby Is A Toy” from Chad Fowler is also available.
I have not posted much in the last few weeks. I’ve been busy learning Rails. I have convinced [...]

CUSEC Day 3: Rails keynote and Student Panel

David Heinemeier Hansson, Rails creator, was supposed to give a keynote on Rails, but his plane was stuck in Seattle. Bummer. Chad Fowler pulled double duty and gave a presentation titled “Ruby is a Toy and Rails is Boring”. Ruby is a toy because it’s actually fun to program. Rails is boring because you don’t [...]

Vacation on Rails

I just got back from a 3 days fishing trip. It ended my week of vacation, and once again, I barely did anything that I wanted to do. It happens every time. I dress a list of things to occupy the week and can only finish a third of them.
Of the things I did do [...]

ASP.Net

Over the next few weeks, at work, I will be reworking an application that is made with ASP.Net. I would like to do it in Rails, but since we’re using .Net for everything, that’s the way it is going to be. However, I think I will try to reimplement it in Rails in my spare [...]

Tests and rails

MF Bliki: DynamicTyping
I discovered that in the presence of SelfTestingCode, most bugs that static types would have were found just as easily by the tests.
Last night I was playing with rails trying to understand some of the features. Old habits kicked in. I did not write some tests and got bitten once again. Lost almost [...]

Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails is a web development framework. It is surprisingly easy to create a web application with it. It takes care of the mapping to the database. You can find a sample video that will setup rails and create a simple blog in under ten minutes. In the coming weeks, I will document my [...]