tag:brownbeagle.com.au,2005:/posts 2010-03-24T12:19:58+08:00 tag:brownbeagle.com.au,2005:Post/the_lowdown_on_the_skinny 2009-10-12T00:00:00+08:00 2010-03-24T12:19:58+08:00 <img class='hero' src='http://brownbeagle.com.au/images/skinny_blog_engine_small.jpg' /> <p>It's fitting that we launch our very first blog post of all time with our first piece of public release software: <a href="http://brownbeagle.com.au/open_source/skinny_blog_engine">The Skinny Blog Engine</a>.</p> <p>The development of TSBE was created out of our desire to have a simple, better fitting blog engine for our needs as web developers. We needed an engine generic enough to be usable across multiple projects, but also an engine that was easily extensible because one size never fits all.</p> <p>Checkout <a href="http://brownbeagle.com.au/open_source/skinny_blog_engine">The Skinny Blog Engine</a> project page for more details.</p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brownbeagle/~4/g7hDowQi7f4" height="1" width="1"/> http://brownbeagle.com.au/posts/the_lowdown_on_the_skinny tag:brownbeagle.com.au,2005:Post/jump_start_with_ruby_on_rails_training 2009-11-10T00:00:00+08:00 2010-03-24T12:19:58+08:00 <img class='hero' height='100px' src='http://brownbeagle.com.au/images/posts/getup_logo.jpg' width='200px' /> <p>The first week of November 2009 saw Brown Beagle Software run a Ruby on Rails training week for Australia's grass roots advocacy group, <a href="http://www.getup.org.au" rel="nofollow">GetUp!</a> The organisation has recently made the major shift away from PHP to Ruby on Rails. Daryl Manning, Director of Online Campaigning, cited the motivation for the move as a way to introduce a collection of rapid development tools and best practices in one fell swoop.</p> <p>The course ran for 20 hours in total, with 12 hours dedicated to Ruby and Ruby on Rails education, with the final 8 hours to cover testing at all levels. The development team was quick to pick up the language, framework, and third party tools. Some practical work was completed through out the week in which the team created a contact system including the use of observers, and mailers, with rspec unit tests, cucumber feature tests, and development of machinist blueprints.</p> <p>Since completing the training Daryl has said that the development team is "very excited" to begin developing with their new found skills. They will be making a jump start on progress by building on top of an existing base of open source and closed sourced systems.</p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brownbeagle/~4/-iqxjv7ji_8" height="1" width="1"/> http://brownbeagle.com.au/posts/jump_start_with_ruby_on_rails_training