ruote-amqp

Kudos to my brother and the rest of the guys at Monopost for cleaning up the bad audio as best they can. Ruote in 20 minutes from Kenneth Kalmer on Vimeo. The original post of the presentation is over here.

After I read this post on Labnotes I decided to “take the plunge” into the world of Ruby 1.9 properly. I mean, I was at RubyKaigi where the biggest lesson of all was “Change!” (and changing to 1.9). Ruby 1.9.1 has been stable for quite some time now, and 1.9.2 is due out on Christmas. [...]

I wrote daemon-kit to solve two big issues with writing daemon processes in Ruby: Everyone is re-inventing the daemons gem Individual daemons share a lot common code, apart from the daemonizing bits As for #1, daemon-kit at first wrapped the daemons gem, and later ripped it out completely as it was difficult to wrap up the worst of [...]

Daemon Kit – RubyKaigi 2009 View more documents from Kenneth Kalmer. Undoubtedly my worst time on stage ever! Ubuntu gave me issues with the projector, so I actually had to leave the stage to go to another conference hall to get the setup working again and run back up to the main hall… Once there, I was [...]

When I’m not busy writing backends for large service provisioning platforms, I get to spend some time in the user-facing interfaces of these platforms. We’ve prided ourselves so far on maintaining cross browser compatibility (excluding IE6), and to a ... [More] certain extend mobile phone accessiblity as well. All the dynamics of the interface is done with [...] [Less]

Decisions decisions, as Ruby developers we face them every day. Some are easier to make than others, they have the ability to shape or break a project (even a business). We’ve faced the decisions of ActiveRecord or DataMapper, jQuery or Prototype, Merb or Rails. Now the decisions are getting tough, and the impact of the [...]

Handsoap is a new, fresh Ruby library for creating SOAP clients. Why am I excited about soap? I’m not, unless they’re beautiful. Yet, somewhere along the line you are going to be faced with writing a client for a SOAP service. Whether it is from your suppliers (4 different crap API’s in my case), or [...]

Since I last announced Capistrano support for daemon-kit, a few other things have happened that is steadily moving the project forward. Here is a synopsis of them all: No more daemons Sounds contradictory, but I’ve stripped out the daemons gem as a ... [More] depedency. Everything the daemons gem offered is now handled inhouse, and works much better. For [...] [Less]

Nothing like some possitive feedback to keep you looking after your own projects, and the feedback on daemon-kit has been great so far. My TODO list is growing every day with more features that I need, and others need as well. I mostly add features to daemon-kit as I need them right away, for this [...]