Again, its been a long time since my last post. A post about not posting. Its been very difficult to find time to write blog posts when you spend most of your time creating new apps. I love creating apps. Most of the applications were for other people, but I did manage to squeeze out an app for myself and friends. It’s called tastymate. Its a place to find and share tasty spots with your friends.
In the process of building tastymate and the other applications, I was able to play with the following:
- sphinx – I am really impressed with this search engine.
- beanstalkd – Its nice to defer some background process until later, so your rails process doesn’t slow down
- god – so far its done a really good at keeping all my processes up and running.
- geokit – A nice little geo location package that works well with ActiveRecord models.
- jQuery – A very nice javascript library.
I have several nice topics to write about in the future. I hope to get on them soon.
On an unrelated rails note, I took a look at jaxer and I am impressed. It will be interesting to see what traction this project gets. Have I told you that I am loving javascript :)
Cheers, graeme
