SproutCore and Rails no longer conflict!
18-Jun-08
Good news–SproutCore has been updated and, among other things, the incompatibility with Rails has been resolved.
I’m interested in SproutCore, the Javascript application framework that was the belle of WWDC last week and what Apple is using for its new Mobile Me web apps. But be careful, Rails developers–after installing the sproutcore gem last night I started getting Rubigen-related errors when trying to generate anything in a Rails project. Uninstalling SproutCore did the trick.
Quick thought on Mobileme
09-Jun-08
I’m following Gizmodo’s live coverage of today’s WWDC keynote, and saw Schiller referred to the new Mobileme push e-mail/calendar/etc. app as “enterprise for the rest of us.”
It sure would be interesting to see Apple take on the enterprise with this as a service IT departments could install on their own networks, huh?
It’s not secret that I really dislike the KU Template, or the design the powers-that-be at KU have imposed upon all KU departments to promote uniformity across the campus’s web presence. The problems I have with it are (a) from an identity standpoint, one size really does not fit all; (b) it’s not enforced in any remotely uniform fashion (uh, the design joke that is the KU Athletics website, anyone? We win a freaking national championship in basketball and the Orange Bowl and we’re still stuck with what CSTV gives us?); and (c) the XHTML/CSS coding is terrible. I’m not saying it was an easy task, but it is not good CSS, not good semantic design, and it uses an outdated technology to bring it all together (server-side includes? Seriously?).
Unfortunately, we’re stuck with the design–and rather than sit and complain about it I figured I’d go to work implementing a version of the KU Template I could use with tools I routinely deploy–so, less with the SSI and more with the WordPress. Loosely based on work done by a few colleagues of mine (namely Jason and David), I give you a WordPress-powered site with a theme based on the KU Template:
I’m still tweaking it, but it’s getting more solid by the day. I have this in my group’s secure Subversion server, but if you’re at KU and would like a copy let me know.