Monthly Archives: July 2007

Bought a GP2X

By John Croisant | Published: 2007-07-31

I splurged on a GP2X (the open-source handheld game/entertainment console) the other day, and it arrived today in the mail. I also went ahead and bought a couple accessories at the same time: the TV-out cable, a USB-SD card reader, and the GP2X “cradle” (which will allow for connecting USB controllers, if I figure out [...]

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Not cleaning up Instiki after all.

By John Croisant | Published: 2007-07-27

Creating a new project with Rails: fun! Cleaning up someone else’s existing, out-of-date, and not very Railsish project: not so much. Instiki is a nifty little app, and it definitely gets the “Instant” and “Wiki” parts right, but it leaves much to be desired: no proper user login/authentication, no preview on edits*, a clunky (if [...]

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Cleaning up Instiki

By John Croisant | Published: 2007-07-25

I’ve been cleaning up Instiki for the past couple days. Actually, I don’t want to be cleaning it up, I want to be extending it. But I figured before I extend it, I should make sure all the tests run. That way, I’ll know when I’ve broken something with my bumbling around in Rails. Instiki [...]

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Looking at Rails

By John Croisant | Published: 2007-07-05

I picked up “Agile Web Development with Rails” yesterday. Despite using ruby for over 3 years, I have not up until this point put any concentrated effort into learning and using Rails. I’ve been running (or rolling, as it were) through the tutorial, an online bookstore app. By and large, the impression I have so [...]

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