I’m very pleased to see that the Ruby gems that I released into the wild are doing very well. Active Breadcrumbs has almost 11K downloads and Domain Name Validator has almost 5K downloads.
Passed 1000 Downloads
My new gem, domain_name_validator, has now passed 1000 downloads at RubyGems.
575 Gem Downloads
There’s been 575 downloads of my new gem, domain_name_validator, in the last month. I’m pretty pleased with the reception.
Great Article About Pry Add-Ons
John Mair has an excellent article on pry, the IRB alternative, and the various gems that are available to augment its functionality. Interesting stuff.
Exchanges Connect Case Study
I architected on the Exchanges Connect Online Video Contest for the Department of State. The Case Study for this project is now available on Amazon Web Services.
Excellent Cucumber Resource
David de Florinier and Gojko Adzic have done a great service by providing a free online book about Cucumber, a tool for Behavior Driven Development (BDD) that has become widely used in the Ruby, Java and .NET comunities. It’s available in PDF form, or can be read online. Check it out today!
Note: (2017/08/24) The link has been removed because it’s no longer active. Apparently, it now points to a dating web site of some sort.
MetroStar Launches Video Contest Platform
My company, MetroStar Systems, just a launched a new product called Votridea. It’s a contest platform, generalized from our ExchangesConnect online video contest, that can foster brand awareness, build social communities and promote innovation.
BBC Redesigns Their Web Site
The BBC has decided to re-design their web site. This blog entry provides in-depth details about the whole design process, as the BBC rebuilds its entire online digital image. There are some nice insights here. Check it out.
AWStats Now Working
Finally got AWStats working for this blog site. I’ve already got SiteMeter (the free version), which provides one view of the site’s traffic, but it will be interesting to contrast this with the more detailed view provided by AWStats.