Rebuilding the Newanz website

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Things are going to go a little different than expected. I finished Nyes, but unfortunately found out the Newanz system itself is a little difficult to configure for it. It's possible, but too much work for me.

So I'm rewriting the entire Newanz website. Now how is that less work?

I started doing this in Ruby on Rails and am loving and hating it at the same time. I got some great resources to learn this language and framework, but sometimes thing just "don't work" or are different than I'm used to. Luckily the main source of the problem is my computer (Ubuntu) which is just "strange" in pushing core changes (it drives me crazy).

Thus far I have finished the page - list - item system which is present on the current Newanz website, but I still need a blog. After that I hope to make things a bit more jQuery and AJAX powered which I love to do a lot more than Rails.

A forum will probably be lacking, but I want to make a more advanced comment system for the items (applications (NewsOffice, YAML-Selector, Nyes), websites and other stuff). That system will probably support topics in a sense, but different. Can't tell a lot more about it, because I'm still working on it.

What does this mean for Nyes?
Well as soon as the new Newanz website is done and I've cleaned up (removed) the latest custom Newanz features I'll upload it to github. This means my perhaps last PHP project will be available publicly a lot sooner than I anticipated. However, I would have had less time to test it.

More about all this later.

Thank you for reading,

Tom de Bruijn

Ubuntu 10.4 Ruby on Rails install

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Todays post will be little different. This is a post mainly for me myself to remember how the hell I did something. Using the Internet I came across a lot of different sources which all helped. So before I forget: writing it down.

As always with Linux things go out of date way too quickly, but it will be a nice basis for future installs.

In Ubuntu 10.4 terminal:

Github, multi language and speed

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First: I've registered an account on Github and am sharing the new YAML Selector class there. In the future I am planning to also share some other projects like Nyes there, but it will be a while before I make that one a repository public.

In the meantime I've completed the possibility of translation of Nyes using the YAML Selector in the background. I have yet to translate anything to dutch (the only (human) other language I know fluently), but it will one day happen. Other than that I am a bit scared of the speed performance of Nyes so that's something I'll be working on the following days. A dedicated virtual machine with linux will be the new test environment for Nyes and just the switch to that shows half a second faster load times. Perhaps my windows machine is too cluttered to be a good development machine after all.

Thank you for reading,

Tom de Bruijn