APR: Security – Added Constraint

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Last night I got some great feedback from the Austin on Rails guys who helped with the deployment technology for our project. I also got a bit of an education about website security. Based on that conversation, I’m adding a new constraint to our project – that it be secure.

APR: Thanks to AustinOnRails Guys!

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Thanks very much to the rock stars who helped us out tonight. Some of these rockstars are former coworkers of mine, and I believe are all active in austinonrails.org. – next meeting is Tuesday (see the website for more details). In alphabetical order – everyone chimed in to fix, coach […]

APR: Fighting With Deployment Issues

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Sorry about not going live over the weekend. I’ve been fighting with some deployment issues in getting things running on our host server. In some sense, this is to be expected, as we’ve never done it before, and there is a whole lot of new technology for us. So, we’ve […]

APR: First Prototype Almost Done

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The first prototype is almost done – I just need to add a couple presentation elements (listing articles by date submitted, highest scoring). When I get the site up (I still need to read how to use Capistrano to deploy a Rails site), we’ll open it up for a few […]

APR: Prototype Update

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Just a quick update on the prototype for our agile project. We’ve dramatically improved test coverage, implemented authentication-restriction for some functionality, and refactored a litte of the code. Read on for the latest stats on coverage and testing.

APR: Initial Prototype Progress

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Made some progress on the prototype for our agile project, getting Users and Articles (see the domain model) mostly implemented and partially tested, and some other parts of the application completed. Ruby has some interesting features for tracking statistics. Read on if you’re interested in that sort of thing.

APR: Infrastructure Setup

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This morning I finished up the infrastructure setup for our project. A bunch of under the hood work. Definitely required some propeller-head skills. The goal of this work is to get us to a working prototype as soon as possible. There are a couple links to some good agile testing […]

APR: Updated Domain Model

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More iteration in our agile project. In this article, we make several updates to the domain model (UML class diagram) based upon discussions on all of the articles in the series. More than a couple dozen in the last day. Thanks to everyone who has helped with feedback and encouragement […]