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Ruby on Rails Basics

Posted by Rahoul Baruah on May 21st, 2008 under Beautiful Code, Designing Great Software, Managing Successful Projects, Ruby on Rails and Software Development, Writing Reliable, Bug-Free Code  •  Comments Off

Sometimes, it’s worth stating the basics for all to see:

Follow the Model-View-Controller paradigm.  In particular, your views house your user-interface, your models handle the application and your controllers mediate between the two.  Controllers do not contain rules, conditionals dealing with business conditions, queries looking for objects related to the one in question.  All those things [...]

The Race to Running Software

Posted by Rahoul Baruah on March 9th, 2008 under Managing Successful Projects  •  1 Comment

“Agile” software development states you should try and get software out in front of people as soon as possible. Specifications are just documents, software is real – and you can’t get feedback, see what works or improve until what you have is out in the real world. 37Signals, creators of Ruby on Rails [...]

Cross Platform Development – testing on both platforms

Posted by Rahoul Baruah on January 25th, 2008 under Managing Successful Projects, Writing Reliable, Bug-Free Code  •  Comments Off

Like a growing number of computer users, 3hv is an Apple Mac based company. Sometimes, this can lead to problems … most people use Microsoft Windows, which looks and works differently.
Never fear – since Apple switched to using Intel processors, companies such as VMWare and Parallels make it possible to run Mac software alongside [...]

The trouble with Ruby on Rails

Posted by Rahoul Baruah on January 6th, 2008 under Designing Great Software, Managing Successful Projects, Ruby on Rails and Software Development  •  Comments Off

Normally I wouldn’t talk about Ruby on Rails on this blog. That geek talk is found on the tech blog instead.
But, despite being about Rails, this isn’t a tech post. It’s about a problem that you will face when trying to hire a Rails developer.
Rails has a number of advantages.

It is a framework [...]

My favourite plug-ins

Posted by Rahoul Baruah on October 25th, 2007 under Beautiful Code, Designing Great Software, Managing Successful Projects, Ruby on Rails and Software Development  •  Comments Off

You know how it is – there are some things that you are just not comfortable without. My phone in my back pocket, my wallet in my front pocket, the key in the front door when I go to bed (just in case there’s a fire and we have to make a hasty exit), [...]

The infamous iPhone SDK

Posted by Rahoul Baruah on October 5th, 2007 under Managing Successful Projects  •  Comments Off

There appears to be a lot of gnashing of teeth regarding the non-existence of the iPhone SDK. Some are saying that it is proof that Apple are evil and out to get us. There are rumours that the iPhone is about to undergo a platform shift and his Steveness is just saving Apple [...]