I had the pleasure of recently meeting Charles Jolley, best known for his work as CEO of Sproutit. This gave birth to a hot new JavaScript framework/Rails plug-in known as Sproutcore, which for some reason never showed up on the Google searches. Hopefully this blog post will help raise its profile. 🙂
Authentic Storytelling on the Inside
In my hero Seth Godin's book All Marketers are Liars, he describes the power of authentic stories in the context of outbound communication. Stephen Denning (formerly of the World Bank) brings that same perspective to internal communication in The Leader's Guide to Storytelling. He not only shows how the power of authentic narrative can bring about... Continue Reading →
Dips, Dead Ends, Joyrides, Lotteries, and Quests
Like everyone else there, I really enjoyed Seth Godin's visit to Silicon Valley to discuss his new book "The Dip". Not only is he a fantastic speaker, his idea of combining 5 free books and a talk for $50 worked brilliantly, in that I somehow managed to feel like I got both for free. :-)... Continue Reading →
Behavior-Driven Development
After hearing about RSpec, I ran into the idea of Behavior-Driven Development: Behaviour Driven Development is an Agile development process that comprises aspects of Acceptance Test Driven Planning, Domain Driven Design and Test Driven Development. RSpec is a BDD tool aimed at TDD in the context of BDD. My personal aesthetic tells me that this may well be The Next Big Thing... Continue Reading →
Twitter gets Microformatted
With help from Chris Messina, Twitter has added microformat support, specifically: hAtom (for the post stream) hCard (for user information) XFN (for the friends list) rel="me" (on the URL links in personal pages) It seems like the revolution will be twittered. 🙂
Steve Bjorg: The Story of the REST
With apologies to Paul Harvey, here's another Introduction to REST, courtesy of Steve Bjorg (with a little help from yours truly).
Microformats Governance
In a Lenten-induced fit of penance, I just proposed revamping the Governance of Microformats. It'll be interesting to see how many worm-cans I've opened up... [Initial Email to microformats-discuss]This issue has come up several times before, but never seems to have gotten traction. So (as part of my Lenten penance 🙂 I've finally decided to... Continue Reading →
ActiveRecord Refactoring Project
I am excited that Zach Dennis has taken up last year's cause of ActiveRecord Refactoring, since I never made much progress on my ActiveData efforts. Still, to help him out I've posted my pre-alpha ActiveData code, which builds on my earlier non-SQL ActiveRecord. I've pasted some excerpts below (Read More).
Restful Rails 1.2
One of the coolest new features of Rails 1.2 is the RESTful routing. In particular, the new scaffold_resource generator makes it really easy to mockup a basic resource-oriented web app with trivial amounts of code. Check it out. # rails 1.2.1# mongrel 1.0.1$ rails restful$ cd !$$ script/generate scaffold_resource Entry title:string content:text published:date# can now... Continue Reading →
The Architects of Cyberspace: Stalking the Hedgehog of 21st-Century IT
As one of my many extracurricular activities, I happen to serve on the Dean's Advisory Council for GCCIS, the College of Computing and Information Sciences at RIT. The thing I enjoy most about that experience is the opportunity to contemplate (and hopefully influence) the future of Computer Science/Information Technology education. Below is an essay I... Continue Reading →
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