So I think that my event tracking system happenings is pretty nice. Nice enough that people might want to use it for their projects. The question that I’m trying to answer is: can I roll this in to a gem so I get all the package management niceness (Dependencies, etc) that goes along with gems, or do I need to create a plugin with generators and such?
Since I started posting on this blog again I have been thinking a lot about Windows 7 and how MS could make it developer friendly. A lot of these ideas have come from discussions with colleagues (I work for a Microsoft consulting firm) and also from articles I’ve read that I agree with.
There are two or three main problems with how Microsoft treats its development community that I take issue with. I’ll decide whether its two or three as this post continues but the point is: Good developer’s want access to the best tools (ide & api), good developer’s make good applications (elegant inside and out), and good applications make a good platform.
As promised I submitted my ym4r google maps rails plugin patch. That’s pretty much the first patch I’ve ever submitted for anything, so here’s hoping they don’t come back and lambast me for my ridiculously stupid idea.
So I finally got myself into a project I couldn’t get out of and I hacked together an event tracking system I dubbed, happenings. As it stands now its a rails project by itself, but I would like to create a gem or plugin so that the models can easily be used by others…
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