I have been very busy for at work learning Ruby on Rails. I have even managed to create a cool facebook application using Ruby on Rails and AS3/Papervision3D feed reader I also utilized facebooker rails plugin. It is currently not open to the public but will be soon. I still have a few bugs to work out it is a little challenging when it comes to RSS/Crossdomain/XML/Flash/RubyOnRails all in one little facebook application. I have also recently ordered a book Flex on Rails! I do love the way rails handels REST and XML it is so easy to make applications that can spit out JSON and XML. With the facebook it is not exactly easy to share ones personal information (what I mean to say is their are limitations to the api and is secure and built this way on purpose to protect users) but I can see now how something like Ruby on Rails + AS3 could be used to generate some very cool social web games. I do think that the video game models of the past are limited and social networks will open new niches for social/video games that are revenue generated by advertising. When you think about most facebook applications they are relatively simple although I see more useful applications coming to social networks and I see social networks creating a webOS or webtop. I will be taking the same application and make it available for wordpress plugin as well. It is fun and challenging making facebook applications. I have also been busy working on my next portfolio which I have been working on for a considerable time. I am also releasing a commercial site aimed at getting myself some freelance contracts and jobs. In short I want to code widgets that people want for blogs, iphone/android applications, facebook and Open Social. I believe there will be a growing need for companies to place their content within other applications that people use not too mention the fact that these applications are adopted by users much more quickly than traditional applications. This is not to say that I will stop working on traditional applications. I will work on interactive web sites and branding sites for clients these web applications will be intuitive for the users to update and be primarily based off of open source stacks.
In other news I gave a presentation to the Lincoln .Net user group on Ruby on Rails it went well and I didn’t stutter too much. Although I did call esb, fsb in a slip (ha ha) In short we created a simple task list. You can find the notes and simple example application here.
I have also been looking at the new version of Silverlight3 and it does look pretty sweet they have a few pixel shaders and perspective 3D built in now. I am sure that silverlight3 will be an excellent skill to complement my C# skills. I hope the Moonlight Project can catch up to where silverlight3 is currently. I still don’t think silverlight3 will be as useful as Flex, I guess I just have a prejudice for the Flash Platform. I really love flash. I am also looking forward to Flash Catalyst a new product from adobe that will bridge Fireworks / Photoshop directly into Flex which will be great to say the least! I found a cool Netbeans plugin the Flexbean and I personally use Netbeans quite a bit on my Ubuntu box I find it extremely helpful when working with Ruby On Rails or whatever language for that matter.
Accelerated 3D Web via Khronos/Mozzilla 3D is coming to javascript which should be interesting no question about it javascript is very powerful just very frustrating to behave consistenly in multiple browsers. This should prove to be interesting and with ie8 now I wonder if ie8 will support it?
Does flash matter on mobile devices? Yes of course it does this is one feature the iPhone and Windows mobile Flash Lite is wonderful but we want the whole enchilada! Well it is coming to the Android Platform for sure! It will only be a matter of time before Silverlight follow suit. If you didn’t know Microsoft released an iPhone app PhotoSynth for those of you who don’t know photosynth connects multiple pictures of places and displays them in a kind of pseudo panoramic images that are very cool and one can’t help but think silverlight might not be far behind.
Unity 3D for the iPhone why use it?
The numbers speak for themselves people are willing to shell out an arm and a leg for simple racing games Unity3D has been around for awhile and it is developing into a great engine for content on the Wii and iPhone. This is not the first time I have mentioned this product either.
I have also purchased a book from O’Reilly Head First Design Patterns! The reason is simple not coming from an OOP background it has been challenging to teach myself OOP and now that I understand OOP it would be ideal for me to become familiar with design patterns not just MVC but multiple design patterns. I see this as helping myself out in future jobs. I will be able to look at most corporate applications and just get it (little less time dedicated to the debugger). This will help me see what their programmers are doing and know why they have programmed in the manner they have. This book also sheds lots of light on MVC that is used in many frameworks like pureMVC, CakePHP, and of course Rails. is so nice now that spring is finally here!
We are looking forward to going on Taco Ride. Well Lisa and I have decided to go back to Ireland this summer. So it should be a fun trip with lots of photos to share with you all.
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