drkROOM
Posted by tom July 30th, 2006
drkWhat? drkROOM! We’ll it’s a new project of mine, somewhat like Flckr, but a bit more like iPhoto, but not like BubbleShare. Think of it like iPhoto on the web written in Ruby on Rails.
Currently it’s usable, but far from finished, more like: just started… I can probably do with a better name as well, I thought of Shuttr first, but that name is in use by the Shuttr Ruby Project. Names like flm, photoflm & rShuttr I already ruled out.
Read the rest of this entrySyntax highlighting of code in Radiant CMS
Posted by tom July 23rd, 2006
Inspired by some code snippets on the Trac website of Radiant CMS I wrote a Radiant CMS behaviour which will automagically do syntax highlighting.
I’m using it on my site with a stylesheet loosly based on the Ruby Lang Redesign 2005 TextMate Theme
Read the rest of this entryRadiant CMS / Apache 2.0
Posted by tom July 17th, 2006
Today I’ve setup a RAILS app with the use of Apache2 and mod_fcgid. The RAILS app is Radiant CMS, which I’ve testdriven to see what it’s possibilities were. I’ve also looked at ease of use and that’s where Radiant CMS really scores. Radiant CMS is really, really easy to learn. It’s featureset is currently somewhat limited, though the first plugins (called behaviors) are already available (of which gallery & search are to me the most usable).
Read the rest of this entrySOAP and XML-RPC Client
Posted by tom July 14th, 2006
The guys from Scandalous Software make some tools which can help in developing web applications / web services: SOAP Client and XML-RPC Client.
WSDL Viewer
Posted by tom July 13th, 2006
While looking for a way to quickly make sense of WSDL files (which might make sense for us programmers, but not for non-technical people) I stumbled upon Tomi Vanek’s WSDL Viewer. Very useful, it’s an XSLT which transforms WSDL files into human readable HTML.
Listing XML document canonically
Posted by tom July 13th, 2006
For a project I needed to list for XML documents all it’s nodes in a canonical style. This is how I used Ruby to do it, save the file as listcanonical.rb.
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