Over the last few days I have been moving the BiQ application to Rails 2.0 PR. I’ve so far run into a fair deal of issues; one annoying one that I figured I’d share. The gist of the matter is…
Update: This position has been filled. Thanks a lot to all of you who applied. Do you want to do Ruby for a living, and are you located in Copenhagen (or willing to travel/relocate)? We’re looking a for a solid…
This is a followup to my post about using YSlow to optimize websites with a warning. In that post I mention using mod_deflate to GZip encode all our text based content before delivering it to user agents supporting this. However,…
Yahoo! has released a great Firefox addon - or rather, an addon for a Firefox addon - called YSlow. YSlow allows you to analyze and suggest improvements to various performance metrics on the website you’re currently visiting. For kicks I…
I am having massive problems connecting my MacBook Pro with the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 we have at work. I’ve connected to the same SQL Server (more or less) painlessly from Debian a couple of times before, so it…
You know we’re sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder. Makes you feel good, doesn’t it? After launching the rewritten and redesigned BiQ I…
BiQ on Rails, Browsers, Programming, Projects, Software, Technology , 5 comments
After 6 months of evangelizing and advocating, followed by 6 more months of rewriting, and then 3 more months of building new features and enhancing existing ones, we have finally launched the new version of BiQ. Going from ASP/VBScript on…
BiQ on Rails, Programming, Projects, Software, Technology, Webdesign , 3 comments
Right before christmas I was interviewed by the danish version2. The focus was on Ruby on Rails and our picking that technology for BiQ. The interview was published on dead trees Friday, and today it reached the version2 website. This…
Cool, I made it into the top 40 Rails contributors in January. Which means I might end up with a free registration to the US RailsConf 2007 and a hotel room, courtesy of CD Baby - assuming enough of the…
It’s a new year, and of course, this calls for looking back at the year that passed. The short version: 2006 has been a great year for me on several levels. Professionally Career wise 2006 has been coloured primarily by…
BiQ on Rails, Blogging, Copenhagen.rb, Life, Mentalized.net, Projects , 1 comments
Around 6 months ago I started the actual progress of rewriting our existing, customer facing application at BiQ. A week or two before christmas the rewrite went feature complete. That is; all the features we want and need in the…
BiQ on Rails, Programming, Projects, Technology , 2 comments
Last week I took a quick executive decision to deploy BiQ on Debian Etch instead of Sarge as initially planned. Mainly so we could take advantage of Ruby 1.8.5 (let me hear you scream “Mongrel”) and Subversion 1.4.something. Today, yet…
It’s been pretty quiet around these parts lately - if you ignore the posts about Copenhagen.rb meetings at least. That’s primarily because I am having tons of fun at work, which for some reason doesn’t leave me much time for…
BiQ on Rails, Blogging, Business, Copenhagen.rb, Life, Mentalized.net, Projects , 0 comments
I am now well over a week into putting BiQ on Rails, and I’ve been having so much fun. The fact that I actually getting paid for writing code that’s pretty and well tested means so much to the enjoyment…
At long last! I got the final commitment from my boss. We’ll be moving down the path of rebuilding BiQ using Ruby on Rails. Goodbye stupid ASP, hello sweet Ruby. Our preliminary tests shows that nothing we are currently doing…
Thursday marked a major step on the path to exploring Rails as an alternative for BiQ. As I’ve mentioned earlier I’ve been looking for someone to come and present Rails for us. We found Scott Raymond of Blinksale and IconBuffet…
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At the recent Canada on Rails conference Robby Russel introduced his upcoming plugin, Acts as legacy. Facing a 60+ table legacy system, I will definitely be watching that space. Acts_as_legacy would allow me to not worry about our existing scripts…
In an effort to get a feel for the effort it’ll take to rewrite BiQ, I’ve been rewriting a vertical slice of our functionality. As part of that I’ve been setting up a test Ruby on Rails application and building…
At the day job I’m the sole developer and maintainer of a legacy ASP/VBScript system. Yes, ASP/VBScript. No, not .NET. And yes, it’s driving me insane. The code contains around 42000 lines of VBSCript drivel and 30000 lines of supporting…
BiQ on Rails, Business, Programming, Projects, Technology , 2 comments