UI Fundamentals for Programmers by Ryan Singer. This presentation was really helpful to me when I started re-developing ChapterBoard last year, moving away from my prototype built with Drupal in favor of the PHP MVC framework KohanaPHP. I highly recommend it to anyone else who is working with an MVC framework. Even if you have a lot of experience with your framework, Ryan’s approach to developing an application UI is very helpful.
The presentation is curtesy of Chicago Ruby and 37 Signals’ Ryan Singer
Learning Ruby on Rails
Over the past few weeks I’ve been working with ruby on rails to try and get up to speed. I’m really liking the way applications are laid out and it just feels like a really well thought out framework. At some point down the line I’ll end up rewriting ChapterBoard in Rails 3. Unit testing alone in rails is probably worth the hassle of rewriting all the work I did to launch ChapterBoard on the Kohana PHP framework.
