A lot of this problem is to do with implementing the algorithm that shares the gem. The only easy aspect is that the total value of the gems must be a divisible by the number of shares. Danilo had used this problem while in South America so he already had a dojo solution that used [...]
At the last session we finally managed to get the datastore sorted out along with the basic application flow that it should have (not entirely implemented yet). You can look at the code in GitHub so in terms of the report I’ll just mention some of the side conversation. There was a point as to [...]
Just a quick write up. During the session we just installed Ruby and got irb and Scite running. Danilo then went through a few features of Ruby. This lead into a discussion of the language that I am going to try and sum up here. Ruby is a dynamic language with strong typing and effectively [...]
Sorry it’s taken a while to post this one. Doing Tab Player was a lot of fun, have a listen to the worst rendition of Nirvana’s Lithium ever. We only read and stitched together one tab. There didn’t seem to be any rules for the format of the tab, they can be variable lengths and [...]
Although somewhat anemic due to the Euro Cup Danilo gave a talk and walkthrough hot new web framework Ramaze. Ramaze is a very lightweight web framework that compared to Rails has very little opinion as to how you should develop with it. It allows you to tie together various data persistence and html templating engines [...]