Updates all round
I’ve been a busy bee this week.
As you may have noticed Teabass is sporting a few small changes. Notably it looks and works a lot better in IE6, still unchecked in IE7 but I would guess it’s ok if someone can confirm that for me that would be great. The other difference is the Delicious sidebar widget, I’ve started using it a lot more, all of the cool stuff I find gets saved there.
Perhaps more important than that, the mysterious project I’m involved in at work is soon to become a lot less mysterious. I’ve been putting a lot of things together and we are getting close to slotting everything in place, if we don’t have any major hiccups then we are still on for a January release and that means we’ll be looking for beta testers very soon 
I’ve put my Ruby shoes again and have been catching up with Rails, pretty damn quickly too. I’ve re-read a number of books I have on it as well as reading into pure Ruby to provide myself with a better of Rails and how it works.
It definitely helped me grasp the concepts of Rails better and since then I’ve created some cool little things now that I can do relationships and login stuff its all coming together very quickly. If i can work out a good way to get a rails app running on a live web server (it’s not particularly easy) then I will show off what I can do.
I’ve got a couple ideas in the pipeline that I think would suit rails down to the ground and with the help of “Getting Real” by 37signals, my latest purchase and new favourite book, at least until I get the new “Agile Web Development with Rails 1.2“, all about fast, lightweight web development.
It goes hand in hand with Rails and has this strange power to fill me with ideas and enthusiasm every time I read it, what more could you want from a book. You can read it for free here, I wouldn’t suggest buying it tho, they use a ‘print-on-demand’ service from Lulu.com which is quite frankly pants!
Lulu.com not only took over 2 weeks to get the book to me, it was poorly printed and the put the wrong postcode on it so it when to the wrong house as well!! Get the PDF instead.
Rock on!
teabass looks just as good on ie7 except for the cocomment bar which shows some extra padding and your pagemenu which settles towards the bottom instead of the center.
I dont know if you’re aware of http://www.danvine.com/iecapture/ , its been a lot of help to me in the past.
sri on November 30, 2006 11:21 am
I just this morning installed Parallels on my mac, with Windows XP, so i’ll be able to check it in future but thanks for the IE7 check
Andrew on November 30, 2006 11:32 am
What ever you are looking for testers for, i’ll be up for having a go, i’ll assume you can see my email from this form if you want to drop me a line.
Kieran on November 30, 2006 4:06 pm
Keep an at least one eye on teabass, I’ll make an announcement in a post (saves me emailing lots of people too)
Andrew on November 30, 2006 4:13 pm
sounds good.
The Technocrat on November 30, 2006 4:20 pm
delicious is just not something i can get into for some reason. every time i login i get overwhelmed at the tags and buddies.
our big website design roll out at work was postponed two months. we’ve run into some problems with our login authentication not linking with our existing ldap correctly.
keep up the good work!
Jeromy on December 1, 2006 6:02 am
That’s the main reason I didn’t use it before is that it’s damn ugly, but i’ve just been using a bookmarklet to save them from safari and display them in my blog, makes everything a bit more friendly.
Andrew on December 1, 2006 10:58 am
nice. i think i tried a firefox plugin back in the 1.0.7 days.
Jeromy on December 1, 2006 11:10 pm