Myles Carrick
I work with online learning systems: Moodle, Mahara, Kaltura and others and love working with Ruby, Rails, JS and other cool goodies.
Mail me at myles@mylescarrick.com
Follow my tweets at @mylescarrick
Ahhh… finally successful with bundler 0.9.6, rails 2.3.5 and a _real_ app (even on heroku)…
Daniel Wanja (http://twitter.com/danielwanja / http://onrails.org) tweeted the link to the promo vid for Square (http://twitter.com/square / http://squareup.org).
I’m sure we’re not going to see this stuff in Australia any time soon, but it’s a great piece of kit - awesome innovation that takes existing technologies that one critical further step.
A quick who's who in Javascript
Teylor Feliz (http://www.teylorfeliz.net) has compiled and posted this really great list of influential Javascript developers - complete with links to their blogs and/or twitter feeds.
The list covers many of the usual suspects (John Resig, Douglas Crockford, as well as a number of lesser-known innovators). My tip, if you’re not following any of these guys, is to grab the twitter feed of Dimity Baranovskiy (http://twitter.com/DmitryBaranovsk), the author of the amazing Raphael JS vector graphics library (http://raphaeljs.com).
How have I not seen Harmony (http://github.com/mynyml/harmony) (& HolyGrail) for executing js & DOM code in Ruby?
“Consumers loudly campaigned for another Barbie® career. The winner of the popular vote is Computer Engineer. Computer Engineer Barbie®, debuting in Winter 2010, inspires a new generation of girls to explore this important high-tech industry, which continues to grow and need future female leaders.”
Matz on how programming languages affect thought
Yehuda (http://twitter.com/wycats) tweeted this link to Matz’s slides from OSCON 2003 - awesome insight into Matz’s thinking about the role of the language designer, and the philosophy behind Ruby (how naming - “While you program to solve your problem, I program your brain to work better”.
I’ve gone and ordered my first bike since childhood. This thing (Giant CRX 2) is seriously nice - and I’m hoping will confidently straddle the recreational, practical and fitness goals I have for it.
Ignite Sydney 4
It looks like the speaker list for Ignite 4 is out. I’m gonna be on holidays then, but it looks like some interesting stuff. I’ll have to try and make #5!
Uploadify - with Flex
Plus2’s legendary Lachie Cox (http://smartbomb.com) has worked his magic on getting Uploadify’s Flash multi-file uploader working… using the free Flex Builder. From the GitHub readme:
The flash/jQuery multiple file uploader at http://www.uploadify.com/ is quite nice, but has a few bugs and slow development progress.
The flash part’s “source” is contained in a .fla file. This is only openable by the Flash IDE, an expensive program I have no need for.
So I extracted the ActionScript and ported it to work with the free Flex SDK.
CarrierWave - attachments anywhere, anytime
I’ve been searching for a solution for attachments in MongoMapper + Sinatra… and CarrierWave (http://carrierwave.rubyforge.org/) looks awesome. Just need a spare hour or two to start playing…
