In my journey to become a more efficient hacker, I evaluate lots of software. Most of its good, and I really enjoy it. Unfortunately, I’m afraid that I’m missing out on some good stuff. If you think you have a hot product, and that I should be evangelizing it, let me know. Post a comment here, or email me at iam @ this blog’s domain.
Also, if you use a hot piece of software, and you don’t think I’m using it yet let me know, and I’ll put a video detailing my adventures with it.
I use a Mac and I mostly develop web related apps in Ruby, but I have been known to throw some JAVA around as well.
http://flossedtoday.com. It's not open for hacking though, but it's a good example off a simple purpose app. Built with merb and datamapper.
I would love for you to try out http://messagepub.com. It's a simple rest API to send out messages on multiple channels such as AIM, Email, SMS, Google Chat, Phone, and Twitter.
http://www.mnikr.com — a system I built for reputation trading on the internet. A blog post explaining it is at http://blog.ussjoin.com/2009/04/corrupting-the-... .
Hey Bryan,
I'd love for you to do a review of http://elasticserver.com – we've built a service that helps you get on board quickly with virtualization and the cloud. Pick components from our library or upload your own and get a virtualized image or deploy to Amazon EC2 and other clouds with a click. And as a bonus it's built on Ruby on Rails
Hey Bryan, I have something you might be interested in. I heard you evangelizing about spiltting tasks in more digestible focused chunks followed by a break. This is a practice of what is known as www. pomodorotechnique.com, a technique to improve productivity and quality of work. I recently wrote a tool to support the technique called Pomodori http://reborg.github.com/pomodori. That's not just a timer but really something tailored on the technique and more features will be added in the future. It's written in HotCocoa/MacRuby something you might be interested in trying out if you didn't already. I was about to create a screencast to explain the use of the tool in the context of the technique. I'll be very happy to link yours to the website if you decide to talk about it. Let me know if you have any questions. reborg AT reborg.net
A review of the pomodori app would be excellent Bryan. My vote is actually for it. I downloaded and ran it on my own computer a week ago reborg.
It would be great to see the review done on pomodori because it is macruby/hotcocoa. MacRuby has a promising future and the hints are there that they are working to support iphone development. Furthermore, the tutorials and reviews of macruby apps are few and far between.
thank you nice.
http://www.livecliq.net check out, it is basically service for live video streaming and is written in ROR, plus media servers in background. Tell me what do you think