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New Media Journal on Ulitzer Over the past year or so I’ve been working on an application that serves as a framework for building a feature rich social networking site. I’ve called this project EngineY. EngineY is a Ruby application that uses the Ruby on Rails framework as its base.  As I was building EngineY, I used a real community site to serve as a test bed for the framework. The framework is currently powering the Michigan Ruby Community site, which provides a central hub for Ruby enthusiasts in Michigan. I’ve recently released the EngineY framework as an open source project hosted at Google Code. The framework supports a widget type of development in that each new feature is built following the same style of implementation allowing new features to be built up rela... (more)

How to Generate Boxscores with Ruby from Live MLB Data

As an avid baseball fan, I’ve always been interested in the statistics that surround baseball. More so than in any other sport, baseball is a game ruled by statistics. In this post, I will describe a program that I wrote in the Ruby language to generate box scores for any Major Leage Baseball(MLB) game by using the live XML data provided by MLB. Ruby makes it easy to do using plain Ruby ... (more)

Opening Up Java Projects to Open Source

As open source technology is gaining more popularity in the press and among the general population, there still seems to be a lack of knowledge of what is available via open source amid many software development projects. While the mainstream media and the average computer user thinks of Linux whenever the term open source is brought up, this article looks at the amazing wealth of techno... (more)

Ruby on Rails Bible Coming Soon

My next book will be coming in early spring, most likely May, 2008 from Wiley. The book is the Ruby on Rails Bible. The book covers the Rails framework in detail providing an overview of the Ruby programming language, an overview of Rails, detailed chapters on each of the major components of Rails and a walk-through of a complete Rails application. The book will cover Rails 2.0. Major cha... (more)

What is RESTful Development?

One of the things that any good developer strives for in the development of a web application, or any application for that matter, is a well organized code-base with consistent use of patterns and naming conventions. This contributes a great deal to the overall maintainability of an application. However, maintaining a well defined organization and consistency to a code-base especially on... (more)