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I'm Ryan Lowe, a Software Engineering graduate living in Ottawa, Canada. I like agile software development and Ruby on Rails.
I write this blog in Canadian English and don't use a spell checker. Typos happen.
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» Full-time with Rails since May 2005 » Former committer for RadRails (now Aptana) » I also have a few Rails side-projects in development: 1. wheretogoinTO.com Toronto nightlife 2. Hey Heads Up! TODO list and sharing 3. Layered Genealogy family history research 4. foos for foosball scoring 5. fanconcert for music fans (on hold) Hiring Rails developers? I can telecommute by the hour from Ottawa, Canada »» Email: rails AT ryanlowe DOT ca
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New Direction
No, I'm not abandoning FanConcert -- far from it. I'm stuck in a rut lately, so I'm going to try something new for a bit. I've decided to start using my iBook for Rails. That's not that shocking -- a lot of Rails developers use Macs. I've decided not to use TextMate just yet, to speed up the learning curve. Instead I'm using the same software I used on Windows: Eclipse with the RDT and Subclipse plugins. It's working very well -- Eclipse is a lot faster than it used to be on my Mac. Eclipse has made my life a lot easier while I learn how to deal with other new things, like MySQL configuration on the Mac and using the command line more, especially with I've started to use Migrations to change the database schema and wow, what a difference. I'm loving it already. I want to start using Capistrano (formerly SwitchTower) for server deployment, put Rails in my project's This changing of gears has really helped me get out of my little rut. Using a new project to try out these new things reduces the complexity and eliminates the risk of breaking FanConcert for long periods of time. When I get used to using the new tools on the new project, I'll switch FanConcert over as well. So what's the new project? I'm taking the lessons I've learned from FanConcert's moderation system and I'm making a general object moderation-based website that can be configured for any types of objects. The short answer: I'm trying to make a wiki killer. The beta test? FanConcert's objects. If everything goes well this new tool will be the base for editing FanConcert's objects, while prettier read-only pages ride on top of it for people to browse through. Instead of continuing to work from the top down, I'm going to try from the bottom up for a little while. I should have something posted soon on a new domain. Posted at March 22, 2006 at 01:31 PM ESTLast updated March 22, 2006 at 01:31 PM EST Comments
Any url eh? » Posted by: andrew at March 22, 2006 07:04 PMI have the domain already, I'll let you know when I post the site. » Posted by: Ryan at March 23, 2006 01:47 AM |
