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Tim Lucas commented on Cucumbers & Factory Girls the intention was to have sound as well, but the recording never worked. Sorry! 9 months ago
Tim Lucas commented on Developing for iPhone :) 2 years ago
Tim Lucas commented on Just Built It - Introduction to Ruby on Rails Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide 2 years ago
Tim Lucas commented on Just Built It - Introduction to Ruby on Rails http://railscasts.com/ http://peepcode.com/ 2 years ago
Tim Lucas commented on Just Built It - Introduction to Ruby on Rails "Hosting a Rails application is dead simple thanks to mod_rails... simply scp/ftp it up to your server, set up MySQL etc, boot up Apache and you’re off!" 2 years ago
Tim Lucas commented on Just Built It - Introduction to Ruby on Rails "Enjoying and reflecting on the process of building software, web applications and web sites has really helped me personally and gives more context and experience to draw upon." 2 years ago
Tim Lucas commented on Just Built It - Introduction to Ruby on Rails "To really understand a set of tools its often useful to see the problems it was built to solve. In the case of Django they had a combination of ’content people’, designs and developers on short deadlines to produce interactive web applications for World Online. It’s really well suited for many government organisations and content heavy sites as you can build data models with really elegant content administration features (DIY CMS) and be populating data whilst building out a really rich site to explore and browse." 2 years ago
Tim Lucas commented on Just Built It - Introduction to Ruby on Rails "Django is another well-known set of tools for building web applications." 2 years ago
Tim Lucas commented on Just Built It - Introduction to Ruby on Rails "Use of Rails also benefits from a level of awareness that other tools don’t have. It’s not only that it’s well known but in the eyes of many it means innovation and trying different approaches... which you can often use for your advantage when trying to get new projects off the ground." 2 years ago
Tim Lucas commented on Just Built It - Introduction to Ruby on Rails "Rails is a very webby framework—support for REST, XML, JSON and all those things are not only baked in but embedded in the ideas of the framework" 2 years ago
Tim Lucas commented on Just Built It - Introduction to Ruby on Rails "Rails is most suited to the user and the system itself generating content. It’s not geared towards building sites where you have slabs of content and "content people" around which you’re building a site." 2 years ago
Tim Lucas commented on Just Built It - Introduction to Ruby on Rails "Cultural Awards 2008 was a site that was built in a similar fashion, diverging from anything the LGSA had built before. Luckily for both Agency Rainford and LGSA we were given the creative freedom, accountability and responsibility to help build something *we* thought would be perfect, which turned out really well and enabled the Cultural Awards to receive more entries, press and recognition than it had ever had." 2 years ago
Tim Lucas commented on Just Built It - Introduction to Ruby on Rails "iphone.news.com.au was a similar story. Keith Ahern recognised early that an iphone site would soon be needed and had built a prototype long before upper management made it a priority. Keith then contracted me to work with Pete Ottery an internal designer to build on top of the prototype and create the final production site." 2 years ago
Tim Lucas commented on Just Built It - Introduction to Ruby on Rails "Waiting for unanimous agreement kills the creative process, and any new and original ideas which might not be obviously or immediately solvable." 2 years ago
Tim Lucas commented on Just Built It - Introduction to Ruby on Rails "Allow them to choose the tools they want, tackle the problem in a way they want, and hold them responsible for the outcomes." 2 years ago
Tim Lucas commented on Just Built It - Introduction to Ruby on Rails "for those who are managing engineers there are many more ways to stifle innovation than encourage it." 2 years ago
Tim Lucas commented on Just Built It - Introduction to Ruby on Rails "but throughout time engineers have and are innovators. They’re the ones with the know-how, the insight... they control the machines and can create new and interesting ways of working, creating, interacting, communicating." 2 years ago
Tim Lucas commented on Just Built It - Introduction to Ruby on Rails "Unfortunately in the web industry engineers are treated a lot like builders, simply handed a spec and told we want this" 2 years ago
Tim Lucas commented on Just Built It - Introduction to Ruby on Rails "Google etc know this. You need to spend time keeping the corporate machine ticking but the innovative and new stuff won’t come from the 9-5" 2 years ago
Tim Lucas commented on Just Built It - Introduction to Ruby on Rails "...and I love all things web... lolcats most definitely included." 2 years ago

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