You wish you were here…

At work we just went live with a project for Earth Hour, which began it’s life in Sydney as a 1 hour event where everyone turns their lights off – including big business. Well, this year, it’s going global. Spread the word! http://www.earthhour.org For those interested in the technology, we used RoR and Radiant.

Over at my work blog, we have just uploaded a post about how we created a Flash Text Cloud for one of our recent clients. Bottom line, if you are in need of a faux tag cloud made in Flash, there is both a download and example for you to enjoy. And if you’re interested [...]

Just a short note (while I give my brain a break from the AS3 learning), to mention that the Redant site (where I work) has been updated. For those interested, we moved to Radiant, a neat Ruby CMS. It was a relatively painless process – although Ben and Toby may have more of an opinion [...]

So you like coding in Ruby, but want to optimise your production speed? Rails and Vim. OJ, this one’s for you.

We are in the process of experimenting with Radiant CMS at work, and while looking at the sites that have been built with it, I stumbled across an excellent (and aparently well loved) Ruby site called Try Ruby (in your browser). I’m sure im the last person in the world to have visited this site [...]

A few links you might find relevant while absorbing the Ruby machine. You could get these from Google – or if you’ve stumbled here, from me instead! Really getting started on Rails Ajaxs on Rails Rails ToDo list There are more, but I havent read them yet, so don’t know if they are any good. [...]

So, I had my first day hand-in-hand with Instant Rails today. Following the tutorial I managed to get all the way with only a few minor hickups (read: leaving for a few hours, coming back and starting from further down the page and missing a few important lines), which I think is pretty good. Sure, [...]