Hi all,
I am very happy to give you the notice that our website here, is installed in Ruby on Rails 2.0.1 just 3 days after the release is finished. Installed and tested in the weekend =].
That's the way that the CNXS team likes to work. Ever living on the edge.
Congratulations to Ruby on Rails Development Staff and to CNXS Team.
See you sirs.
The approach of Douglas Sellers about testing their AJAX heavy system really sounded to me as an excellent idea. I can imagine in the future this being adopted by more and more web systems, as they embrace javascript for building RIAs more and more.
Essentially they have built a DSL on top of selenium using ruby (yay), for testing the AJAX stuff on their page, aiming at easiness to write the tests, trading the complexity of writing the tests for the complexity of the DSL itself, trying even for the non technical people on the company to write their own tests.
Really recommended for a fresh and no nonsense view on testing.
If you have not yet seen or read Lawrence Lessig, I urge you to. I'll try to make a small analysis on his work, just as a appetizer for for those still ignorant about it :).
His point is that we are moving away from a read-only culture, where the content is controlled and governed by producers and broadcasters, and consumers have little saying on the content, to a read-write culture.
What is a read-write culture? One that is governed by the freedom to modify. Where distribution costs are next to zero, and each individual now has a shot at producing her own content, and to mix and remix work of a third party, without being worry of a lawsuit. A new (we could argue that for most of the human history it has been that way, just in the 20 century the paradigm has changed) way of looking at our own freedoms, and how we can not only consume work of others, but create ours, based or not on all the free content available.
Hey Folks. This is the first post, so I'll manage to keep myself away from technological ramblings and just say some words about us and our purpose here.
This is not exactly a company, it is more a group of friends with some mutual interests who got together because they thought it would be fun to do it and each could learn and teach the others a lot.
What bought us together here is a passion for developing good software, with tools that help us not only accomplish this, but to have some fun while we are doing it. We like what we do, and I can say that we don't view this as a job, but as a pleasant thing, which fortunately happens to be payed sometimes (yay). I think that's that for now, but we'll be back tomorrow.
Hugs everyone, and welcome to the joy of connected thoughts :D
