Tonight I gave an introductory talk about Sinatra at the second meetup of BelfastRuby.
The Converser platform I’ve been building this last while uses a lot of Sinatra so when I was asked to give a talk about using Ruby to develop web apps without Rails it wasn’t hard to think of a subject.
This was my [...]
I’ve often joked about putting together an app to track my coffee consumption, such is my reputation for consuming the black goodness. Like a lot of my other personal projects, the idea had a prolonged gestation period and was finally born through a welcome spark of motivation.
Crafting fine web APIs
Over the past 6 months [...]
Last year I created a nano-app which attempted to answer the question, is it raining in Belfast?
I was never completely pleased with it but the objective was to get something done and get it done fast, which was achieved.
This weekend I’ve been tinkering with another project and hit a bit of a stumbling block getting [...]
Some time ago DW and myself had an enthusiastic conversation about logging various aspects of our electronic lives: emails sent and received, RSS feeds read, incoming and outgoing phone calls, the list goes on.
At that time I’d already started tinkering with apps to track my efforts in the gym and changes in my bodyweight, I’ve [...]
I’ve just released the latest iteration of hometi.me, a little nano-app I’ve mentioned before.
Deliberate Practice
It’s only a trivial app but I’ve a bit of free time before the start of a contract so I thought it would be good practice to redevelop it, a task I’d been ignoring for a long time.
Goodbye CakePHP, Hello Sinatra
The [...]
I recently released the latest entry in my series of nano-apps.
As with my previous efforts, istrending.com serves serves no real purpose other than as an act of deliberate practice: going through the process of coming up with an idea, writing code, registering domain names, setting up Cron jobs and configuring deployment systems to get it [...]
In my last post I considered transforming stevenwilkin.com into a Sinatra app.
Well, I did it, although I’m only mentioning it now.
Not only was this my first experience with Sinatra but I also decided to try using HAML for the markup and Blueprint CSS to help with the styling. If I’m going to play with a [...]