Darjeelink - Alexis Perrier http://darjeelink.com I don't blog half as I used to Thu, 28 May 2009 16:19:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en darjeelinkhttp://feedburner.google.com Why I just love Ruby on Rails http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/darjeelink/~3/q_dWoOKlOWg/ http://darjeelink.com/2009/05/28/why-i-just-love-ruby-on-rails/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 16:19:27 +0000 Alexis Perrier http://darjeelink.com/?p=176 After 9 years of php programming and a single year of ruby on rails, there simply is no turning back.
Ruby on Rails rocks !

It’s easy to do great stuffs
Implementing fancy web 2.0 functions and behaviours is easy as 1, 2, 3. Read the library, get the plugin from github , watch the railscast and you’re set and ready to go. Whether it’s related to the user interface or the back end of your web application, you have super powers.

Fast learning experience
Doing a simple Ajax query on the server I needed to update several elements on my page. Here comes RJS and a straightforward implementation. Couple of hours later the page is
Reordering list items, just follow the screencast, add a couple of lines to your code and you are set.
You want to leave the dark side and become a jedy master by testing you app, here comes cucumber and webrat. A day or two and you’re doing all the tdd you need to.

Small code
Keeping your code small is not only a must it’s very enjoyable. Each time I refactor my code, I am struck how concise it can become. And small code means few bugs.

Bugs begone
With ruby on rails, the client does not call you every week saying they don’t really understand what’s going on or why the web app is behaving like it does.

]]> http://darjeelink.com/2009/05/28/why-i-just-love-ruby-on-rails/feed/ http://darjeelink.com/2009/05/28/why-i-just-love-ruby-on-rails/ What’s up ? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/darjeelink/~3/ClXNgQC2kz8/ http://darjeelink.com/2009/03/25/whats-up/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:56:28 +0000 Alexis Perrier http://darjeelink.com/?p=172 Long time since I’ve blogged. Feels like blogging is already a thing of the past and anyway who’s got the time to write something decent and worthwhile.
Everybody’s tweeting their life away.
I myself am more and more worried about privacy and about leaving traces or personal opinions that may come to hunt me down years from now. If my Internet activities are public, which of course they are, I can only write about neutral things that may not indispose future clients or partners.
That does not leave much to blog about.

Anyway who’s got time ?

So right now I’m off to Scotland for Scotland on Rails.
Over the past year I have totally fallen in love with Ruby and its Rails icing. I am now working on a Saas project in the recruitment sector. It’s called Qameha. Great time to create a start up or is it ?
RoR makes it really enjoyable to build such applications. I feel like an engineer again, conceiving, building things and not like an ant trying to move mountains grain dust by grain dust by debugging php applications.

The Scotland on Rails conference promises to be very interesting with good speakers and subjects that will extend my grasp of the Ruby Ecosystem. I love this word “ecosystem”.

Besides the Qameha project, there are at least two other projects that I’m considering worth working on.
I’d like to partner with someone with a more commercial background and experience.
So if you know how to make a buck on the Internet and are looking for a geek partner, drop me an email.

Cheers
Alexis

]]> http://darjeelink.com/2009/03/25/whats-up/feed/ http://darjeelink.com/2009/03/25/whats-up/ Le Vélib’ Déchainé dans Le Nouvel Obs http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/darjeelink/~3/WRFBNsybbxs/ http://darjeelink.com/2008/12/26/le-velib-dechaine-dans-le-nouvel-obs/#comments Fri, 26 Dec 2008 07:06:59 +0000 Alexis Perrier http://darjeelink.com/?p=170 15 apres sa sortie, le vélib Déchainé est déjà dans la presse. Avec un grand article dans le supplément parisien du Nouvel Obs de cette semaine.
En roue libre

Le Vélib’ a désormais son roman-photo. Façon «Nous Deux» décalé. Sur le site www.levelocerosse.com sont égrenées, à coup de vignettes délicieusement kitsch, les tribulations de parigotes confrontées aux joies du vélo libre-service, avec ses codes et anecdotes cocasses. Un thème «inépuisable, qui permet d’illustrer la vie parisienne et les défauts des Parisiens», note Martine Legrand, l’auteure. Dans le premier numéro, «la Belle et le Clochard», une borne Vélib’réunit une accro du shopping et un SDF. Mimiques exagérées, onomatopées… c’est déjanté et artisanal : les saynètes de Martine Legrand sont interprétées par ses collègues comédiens, sous l’objectif de son ami Bernard Fournier (ancien directeur artistique de «l’Equipe») et le tout est mis en pages par son fils de 19 ans.

]]> http://darjeelink.com/2008/12/26/le-velib-dechaine-dans-le-nouvel-obs/feed/ http://darjeelink.com/2008/12/26/le-velib-dechaine-dans-le-nouvel-obs/ The world’s wishes for 2009 on twitter http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/darjeelink/~3/JHmBXitiqWQ/ http://darjeelink.com/2008/12/17/the_worlds_wishes_for_2009_on_twitter/#comments Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:41:56 +0000 Alexis Perrier http://darjeelink.com/?p=168 What if we could see what everyone, all around the world, was wishing for in 2009?

What are you wishing for in 2009 if you live in the States, in India, in Japan, in Argentina, in France ?

What do we as humans, speaking with a single voice, wish each other for the coming year ?

Let’s use twitter to find out.
Just tweet your wish for 2009 with the keyword #wish2009
And read about all the wishes in the whole world on twitter search
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=wish2009

The feed is at
http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=wish2009

Let’s make it happen !

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Quelques épisodes en stock, et Martine Legrand cherche sponsors et éditeurs pour continuer l’aventure.

Le roman photo s’appelle Le Vélib’ Déchainé publié dans les pages du Vélocérosse, http://levelocerosse.com

C’est un projet très polymorphe et extrèmement adapté à la tendance 2.0 globalisée

Il y a un potentiel fou pour écrire des histoires sur les vélos en libre service dans le monde entier alors que ce genre de services fleuris un peu partout sur les 5 continents

Le focus social du sujet ouvre grande la porte d’une forte participation des utilisateurs du Vélib’.
Avez vous croisé un vélocérosse ? Tiens un vélocérosse passe …

Le premier épisode, La belle et le clochard est déjà en ligne, le prochain appelé Poussib’ sera publié vers le jeudi 18 décembre.

Nous avons aussi lancé un group facebook des fans du vélocerosse.

A vos commentaires et suggestions !

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