Archive for the 'Software Design' category

Writing a Simple MailChimp Web Service Using Merb

A while back, I was asked to build some code to help keep a businesses mailing list synchronized between SalesForce.com and their campaign management tool, which I suggested should be MailChimp and not the tool they were currently using, but I digress. The project never materialized, but I figured I would build it anyway [...]

Try on some Ruby Shoes

New Shoes

Do It Wrong Quickly

Paul Graham on Building Stuff.
37 Signals on doing the same

Software Methodologies

Try them all!

Threads Matter (an obvious post)

The future is parallel. No pretending otherwise when NYTimes is writing about it. Erlang, here I come…that is, if I ever get around to finishing this.
I suppose I could also just listen to Paul Graham and relax…
Except in special kinds of applications, parallelism won’t pervade the programs that are written in a hundred years. [...]

Rspec at 2007 Ruby Conference

BDD is quite fun (ok, I’m a dork). Nice presentation from the Rspec gang at the most recent Ruby conference.

Merb Framework

Ezra posted an excellent explanation of his Merb framework late yesterday.

Interesting Links Thanksgiving Edition

Bamboo blog has some good tips on database optimization for Rails apps.
Adam Keys on creating micro-apps using existing infrastructure and APIs like Foamee does with Twitter.
Good presentation on application interface design..
New Rails restful help with the plugin resource_this.
40 design books from Smashing Magazine.
Oracle has built a JRuby application Oracle Mix.

Social Networks Building Blocks

Great article on tools for making social networking sites more portable.
Corkd’s use of microformats is also covered in greater depths in a recent microformats book

Managing Social Networks

Interesting take on some issues with managing multiple social networking sites.