Comments on: RailsConf 2006 or: How I Learned to Stop Wasting Time and Love Web Programming. http://www.ideum.com/blog/2006/07/102/ Multitouch Exhibit Design and Interactive Media Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:18:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 By: Ideum Blog - Museum and Design News » Blog Archive » Ideum’s New Portfolio: Technical Aspects http://www.ideum.com/blog/2006/07/102/comment-page-1/#comment-109 Ideum Blog - Museum and Design News » Blog Archive » Ideum’s New Portfolio: Technical Aspects Mon, 06 Nov 2006 23:50:36 +0000 http://www.ideum.com/blog/2006/07/05/102/#comment-109 [...] Ruby on rails makes the creation of some remarkable web sites very simple. We learned what Rails was capable of at RailsConf 2006, and decided it was time to give the system a shot. Remember CGI in C++? Validating user input was difficult, buffer overruns were all but avoidable, and actually creating something that looked halfway decent was impossible. When PHP made it’s debut the world (or at least those of us here) breathed a collective sigh of relief. PHP made it possible to quickly take user input and write to the browser. It handled Apache integration for us, and made web programming remarkably easy. Recently things have gotten even better. [...] [...] Ruby on rails makes the creation of some remarkable web sites very simple. We learned what Rails was capable of at RailsConf 2006, and decided it was time to give the system a shot. Remember CGI in C++? Validating user input was difficult, buffer overruns were all but avoidable, and actually creating something that looked halfway decent was impossible. When PHP made it’s debut the world (or at least those of us here) breathed a collective sigh of relief. PHP made it possible to quickly take user input and write to the browser. It handled Apache integration for us, and made web programming remarkably easy. Recently things have gotten even better. [...]

]]> By: Ideum Weblog » Blog Archive » More ExhibitFiles http://www.ideum.com/blog/2006/07/102/comment-page-1/#comment-108 Ideum Weblog » Blog Archive » More ExhibitFiles Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:29:51 +0000 http://www.ideum.com/blog/2006/07/05/102/#comment-108 [...] We’ve starting to get comments from the exhibit developer community, which is really helping the design process. The project itself is unusual in that we (as exhibit developers) are the primary audience too! Most of the projects that we develop are for the general public or targeted for a particular grade level, etc. The scale of the project is also unique, it is funded through a three-year NSF grant. It will be the first major application that we (Ideum) has developed with Ruby on Rails. [...] [...] We’ve starting to get comments from the exhibit developer community, which is really helping the design process. The project itself is unusual in that we (as exhibit developers) are the primary audience too! Most of the projects that we develop are for the general public or targeted for a particular grade level, etc. The scale of the project is also unique, it is funded through a three-year NSF grant. It will be the first major application that we (Ideum) has developed with Ruby on Rails. [...]

]]> By: Exhibit Files Blog » Blog Archive » What to build in? Ruby on Rails. http://www.ideum.com/blog/2006/07/102/comment-page-1/#comment-107 Exhibit Files Blog » Blog Archive » What to build in? Ruby on Rails. Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:43:19 +0000 http://www.ideum.com/blog/2006/07/05/102/#comment-107 [...] One of our developers, Zeke Sikelianos, recently attended the RailsConf 2006 in Chicago. He wrote a long post about the conference on the Ideum blog that details some of his experiences there. As the process continues, we’ll share more about Rails and other technical aspects of project. [...] [...] One of our developers, Zeke Sikelianos, recently attended the RailsConf 2006 in Chicago. He wrote a long post about the conference on the Ideum blog that details some of his experiences there. As the process continues, we’ll share more about Rails and other technical aspects of project. [...]

]]> By: Ideum Weblog » Blog Archive » Job Opening at Ideum http://www.ideum.com/blog/2006/07/102/comment-page-1/#comment-106 Ideum Weblog » Blog Archive » Job Opening at Ideum Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:09:32 +0000 http://www.ideum.com/blog/2006/07/05/102/#comment-106 [...] Ideum will be hiring another programmer/developer in the next month or so. Here’s the job description. The position is unique in that it includes on the job training in Ruby on Rails (among other things. As we continue to develop more and more ambitious web applications (like the ExhibitFiles) Ruby on Rails seems like the perfect fit. The job is being created as part of the New Mexico Job Training Incentive Program (New Mexico Business Weekly has the story on the Job Training awards.) [...] [...] Ideum will be hiring another programmer/developer in the next month or so. Here’s the job description. The position is unique in that it includes on the job training in Ruby on Rails (among other things. As we continue to develop more and more ambitious web applications (like the ExhibitFiles) Ruby on Rails seems like the perfect fit. The job is being created as part of the New Mexico Job Training Incentive Program (New Mexico Business Weekly has the story on the Job Training awards.) [...]

]]> By: Ideum Weblog » Blog Archive » ExhibitFiles: Development Blog http://www.ideum.com/blog/2006/07/102/comment-page-1/#comment-105 Ideum Weblog » Blog Archive » ExhibitFiles: Development Blog Fri, 07 Jul 2006 21:13:47 +0000 http://www.ideum.com/blog/2006/07/05/102/#comment-105 [...] Wendy Pollock from Association of Science-Technology Centers is the principal investigator and Kathy McLean from Independent Exhibitions is a co-PI. Ideum’s role is help design, and build the site which will launch this winter. We’re building it in Ruby on Rails. [...] [...] Wendy Pollock from Association of Science-Technology Centers is the principal investigator and Kathy McLean from Independent Exhibitions is a co-PI. Ideum’s role is help design, and build the site which will launch this winter. We’re building it in Ruby on Rails. [...]

]]> By: Zeke Sikelianos http://www.ideum.com/blog/2006/07/102/comment-page-1/#comment-104 Zeke Sikelianos Thu, 06 Jul 2006 16:41:32 +0000 http://www.ideum.com/blog/2006/07/05/102/#comment-104 Eric: I don't really know much (read: anything) about integrating a CMS into Rails, but I've made a few inquiries to other people who attended RailsConf. I'll get back to you when they respond.. Eric: I don’t really know much (read: anything) about integrating a CMS into Rails, but I’ve made a few inquiries to other people who attended RailsConf. I’ll get back to you when they respond..

]]> By: Eric http://www.ideum.com/blog/2006/07/102/comment-page-1/#comment-103 Eric Thu, 06 Jul 2006 16:25:16 +0000 http://www.ideum.com/blog/2006/07/05/102/#comment-103 Oops sorry Zeke not Jim :) Oops sorry Zeke not Jim :)

]]> By: Eric http://www.ideum.com/blog/2006/07/102/comment-page-1/#comment-102 Eric Thu, 06 Jul 2006 03:08:46 +0000 http://www.ideum.com/blog/2006/07/05/102/#comment-102 Jim, I've been interested in Rails for a while the one thing I've hesitated about is the lack of a CMS or hooks for any other CMS support, which basically means the CMS has to be custom made for each application. Is that what you got out of it or did they have some CMS info? I know there has been <a href="http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/Integrate+Rails+with+a+CMS" rel="nofollow">some talk</a> about it on the Rails wiki, it just seems like a big fault so far. Jim,

I’ve been interested in Rails for a while the one thing I’ve hesitated about is the lack of a CMS or hooks for any other CMS support, which basically means the CMS has to be custom made for each application. Is that what you got out of it or did they have some CMS info?

I know there has been some talk about it on the Rails wiki, it just seems like a big fault so far.

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