May 10th, 2011
Since I’m doing a presentation on Blogrite at Rubynorte in little more than a week, I won’t put any videos until then. It will build expectation on wether it’s actually working or not. I certainly hope it is by then!
Wish me luck, or even better: help me build something that I hope you might use too.
May 9th, 2011
I have talked a little faster today but still a bit longer than I had wished for. I’m excited to bring good news about Blogrite, I’m steadly growing my knowledge on Ruby. Rack is really interesting, I’m loving how simple and easy to learn it is so far.
Testing is fun when you start to think of features you want to implement and quickly draw a quick test that will fail and you try to make it pass. I can’t wait to start the refactoring phase, when everything is working the not-so-right way.
April 18th, 2011
Hi everyone, I apologize for not saying anything sooner. I’ve got lots of different stuff going on. Watch it and submit your comments, I appreciate it.
Rubynorte is the Portuguese Ruby conference a couple of friends and I are putting up. If you’re portuguese, come and join us. Submit a talk if you wish to speak to the community.
April 11th, 2011
The absence of communication has been resounding for a while. I have been thinking about Blogrite, nonetheless. I want to show something in the local Ruby meetup next month.
Today I went to #git in Freenode, asking for how should I learn git in order to use it as a filesystem and access it remotely via some server using Grit. The somehow arrogant yet most likely right answer I got was: don’t. Well, what should I use then? The same guy didn’t answer me (well, he did: “I don’t know”.) but another guy did.
Why not use Dropbox or Amazon S3?
Actually that is a great idea. Again, my principle is: keep it minimal and lightweight and still easy for geeks to use. Dropbox is definitely easy to use and maintain. You can also version the content with Git; it just won’t be part of my engine.
I will use Dropbox as the content database. Git will have to wait. It shall come, but not just yet. This gives me opportunity to create modular adapters later on so I feel confortable with it.
March 31st, 2011
Still not much to show you, sadly. I’m having trouble setting my tests up so the rest flows well. If you guys help me out on this, I will be sure to mention you in the following video, you deserve it.
Thanks for all the help guys.
I am José Mota, a 25 year old portuguese web architect.
I am currently working at !UZ Techonologies as an Interaction Designer.
I love to dance, ride my motorbike and to learn more on Ruby on Rails, user experience on the web and Linux.