August 2nd, 2006 |
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rails
This week I’m doing some Rails consulting work for a company that’s already developed and deployed a major application. Getting to know a new codebase takes a little time and every diagram or visualisation helps. To help me understand their ActiveRecord model relationships, I knocked together a quick script to scan the associations between models and output it in the Graphviz DOT format.
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April 26th, 2006 |
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rails
I’ve returned to the working world from sabbatical and now it’s a big day. I’ve been looking forward to this all year.
This afternoon I flipped the switch on the BBC Programme Catalogue and let everyone in. Stop reading this now and get in there.
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November 18th, 2005 |
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rails
I had a great time presenting yesterday evening at the London Web Frameworks night. Huge round of applause to Dean Wilson for putting it together. I learnt interesting things about Catalyst and Django from the other speakers, and did my first public demo of the BBC Programme Catalogue. I’m immensely proud of the site, and I think it came across.
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November 3rd, 2005 |
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rails, rest, xml
XML.com have just published an article I wrote for them last month entitled REST On Rails.
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October 31st, 2005 |
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rails
UPDATE: The BBC Programme Catalogue has launched at https://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax
“The BBC plans to open up its archive to make a treasure trove of material available to everyone.” – BBC Press Release, August 2003
Ever wondered what’s in that archive? Who looks after it? It turns out there’s a huge database that’s been carefully tended by a gang of crack BBC librarians for decades. Nearly a million programmes are catalogued, with descriptions, contributor details and annotations drawn from a wonderfully detailed controlled vocabulary.
I’m the lucky developer who gets to turn this hidden treasure into a public website. No programme downloads yet, but a massive searchable programme catalogue.
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