Ninjas on a Penny Farthing

So, after the past version of the blog (which looked much the same), I decided to take the time to entirely rewrite the platform from scratch using Rails 2.0. And here it is, Eoraptor Generation 2

So, what is Eoraptor?

In essence, It's a tiny blog platform I wrote with Rails to get a feeling for 2.0. Everything is self contained and the UI is built with the idea that integration is everything - the admin UI is a part of the blog interface and it's really all about publishing it and it's done. Nothing more, nothing less.

Anyway, thats enough for the moment - check back soon for both some old comment, some new comment and a few of the trick's I've implement.

When it comes to web development, usability is important - I mean, I should know - I'm not very good at it myself. Now, there is one thing you need to know about usability - there are a lot of little things that can make a real difference. Today, I'm going to show you one of the little things that can make a small difference to your work.

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As is tradition at the end of the year, I made my own New Year's Resolutions - some were the usual (get fit, spend less time on the computer etc. etc.) but I set two goals specifically related to this one blog post - Firstly, as you've probably guessed, I promised myself that I'd blog on a more regular basis on my own plan and secondly I promised to both learn more programming stuff and to more actively participate in the community. In the vein of the last two, I know present with you a short list of some technologies I think you should keep an eye on in 2008.

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Being bored today, I decided to take a bit more in depth look at Rack as well as trying to write a nice little demo app with it. The result you see here is today is VisitTracker - a mini hit logger for websites that produces CSV log files with minimal amounts of info.

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