MPVing with Rails

May 18th 16

I listened to a Ruby Rogues episode with DHH. I was interested in the part where he compared the speed of development when working with rails in comparison to javascript.

I wanted to test this out and knocked up a couple of projects to see how fast I could develop rails apps:

LessBoot

Themeforest is awkward as you need to hover over each template to see what it actually looks like. I assume that this has been A/B tested but it is still annoying.

Using their API, I display the preview images so that you can quickly decide if it is suitable or not.

compare templates

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DeletingDomains

BROKEN: Unfortunately the data source isn’t being maintained anymore

There are 1000s of domains that are soon to expire. Once they are released you can purchase them at a much cheaper rate than through a broker.

To cut down the less suitable ones we remove the ones that include letters and hyphens and only the short dot coms are shown.

deleting domains

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Going native; RubyMotion

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