Just a few days ago (on the 6th of Nov. to be exact) Webjam 9 occured here in Perth as a part of WA Web Week (and more specifically, after Edge of the Web on the same day). Having missed out last time they came to town, I took this webjam as a chance to prototype an idea and show it off.
Like all good spare time projects, my most recent - Marvin - was created to scratch a particular itch. I'm usually a fairly regular visitor in a particular ruby oriented chat room. One of the things that we'd talked about adding as a group was an IRC bot - in particular, something which would let us keep logs (with a searchable web UI) as well as a few other niceties (e.g. a Twitter bot). With that in mind, I spent some time hacking on it. To be brutally honest I wasn't a bit fan of all of the
A while back whilst browsing the RORO Google Group, I noticed Xavier Shay's little project "Enki" - an interesting little blog engine written on Ruby on Rails.
Rack come's with a lot of excellent middleware out of the box, making a lot of seriously cool things possible. One of the most important of these middleware's is URLMap - a little gem that lets you map different url paths to different rack applications. Using Rack::Builder / rackup syntax you can use the map method with a block to define a different urled application.
Ok, the titles lame but I hope the contents aren't. Today I'll be running through a quick Capistrano config - perfect for if your running on a VPS - that has a heap of free goodies included. Also, thanks to Skiz on #offrails for a nice start earlier after I lost some of my stuff.
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.