• mogodb
  • sinatra
  • ruby

Sinatra, MongoDB + Heroku base application

I recently created a simple base application I can use for rapid prototyping applications. It's a simple Sinatra application with a number of popular gems installed and configured to work.

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  • design
  • grids

Fluid variable grid system released

Due to a couple of comments on this blog a few email to requesting a fluid version of the variable grid system I decided to take some time today to build this into the current variable grid system.

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  • programming
  • rails
  • ruby

MongoDB or CouchDB for Rails

A project I've been working on lately required me to accept results from a device called 'The Simulator' in XML format and write those results into a database to be displayed in a Rails app I've been building, 'The LMS' or 'Learning Management System'.

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  • programming
  • rails
  • ruby

SprySoft website redesign

Over the past few months we've been hard at work developing the overall framework for web apps. The first product to come out of this is Agile (content). Agile (content) is our custom built CMS (content management system), and has been built from scratch to meet the high demands modern customers require from content management systems.

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  • design
  • grids

Variable grid system released

Based on the popular 960 Grid System by Nathan Smith, the Variable Grid System is an easy to use tool that allows designers and developers to generate a custom grid and then download an accompanying CSS file based on that grid. The CSS generated is identical to the CSS files attached with the 960 Grid System.

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  • programming
  • rails
  • ruby

Polymorphic forms

I’m currently working on a Ruby on Rails project where both the User + Company models both have addresses. It seemed fairly straight forward then that to keep my database nice and DRY I should create an address table that holds a reference to both the user and company table.

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  • actionscript
  • lastfm

Last.fm AS3 API released

We’ve just released the LastFM Actionscript 3 API on Google Code. The API which communicates with Last.fm 2.0 web services is written in Actionscript 3.0 and uses XML requests to get and post data to and from Last.fm. This API is perfect for building custom music players with the ability to get artist and album data as well as scrobble the tracks you’re playing back to Last.fm.

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