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clyfeon Ask HN: Checklist for starting a new Rails application?

Some from my stack (vary based on project):

    Devise, CanCan, sentient_user, CarrierWave
    rails_config, rails-settings
    ActiveScaffold
    Rspec, Capybara, Spork, Guard, factory_girl, faker
    capistrano

clyfeon Ask HN: Review my Startup - The New Social Times

Heh, I wanted to make something similar! Good job.

You might have me login with twitter or something and give me a more customized news stream based on my interests (I really don't care about justin bieber for example). And maybe make a more common view pattern (that full screen thing is annoying me).

clyfeon Ask HN: How to find entry-level Ruby projects on GitHub?

Here's some projects you could look into https://github.com/clyfe/cywiky/wiki/Check-source-Rails-proj...

clyfeon Famous Logos Designed Entirely in CSS

Our logo on https://entrydns.net/ is also made in CSS entirely

clyfeon JRuby 1.6.5 Released

I would use jruby if I were to build a product that:

    * has a web interface: take advantage or Rails
    * needs scientific computation like machine learning and such: take advantage of the java platform libraries

clyfeon Our startup EntryDNS a free DNS management service

Is not yet documented, but yes, our REST api supports all operations on zones and records and is ActiveResource-compatible

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveResource/Base.html

clyfeon Our startup EntryDNS a free DNS management service

Well some things I can think of are: friendly user interface, simple API and complete REST API compatible with many programming platforms, lower TTL values, instant updates, and several advanced features we plan to release soon.

clyfeon Our startup EntryDNS a free DNS management service

The same answer I gave to eroded: we'll be going towards a freemium model - keeping core features free, and for advanced "enterprise" needs, go for fees lower than other services. We plan to stick around for a lot of time to come.

clyfeon Our startup EntryDNS a free DNS management service

We'll be working on some premium features which will be charged a lot lower than competition. Most core features will be free tough! So we're going towards a freemium model.

clyfeon Our startup EntryDNS a free DNS management service

Please give any constructive criticism!

clyfeon Show HN: Our project, free DNS service EntryDNS.net

We will be broadcasting news to twitter http://twitter.com/#!/entrydns

We will be adding more community features soon.

clyfeon Show HN: Our project, free DNS service EntryDNS.net

Thanks for feedback. We plan on making a freemium model, with free core features and payed advanced stuff for enterprise.

PS. What browser do you use?

clyfeon Show HN: Our project, free DNS service EntryDNS.net

We await any constructive criticism.

clyfeon Ryan Bates launches RailsCasts Pro

I combo devise+cancan+carrierwave+activescaffold => insta-webapps. The activescaffold cancan bridge I wrote chains the cancan rules throughout the app, epic instant gratification.

clyfeon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (October 2011)

Build an open source project, and then we'll be dazzled by your awesomeness :)

Friendly advice: webapps development is generally just moving data around back and forth between DB and client. That's not much and pretty much anyone can do it. When you will be working at real projects, you'll see that the bulk of tasks that need doing come in 4 flavors: annoying tasks, yak shaving tasks, tasks you don't have enough knowledge to get done, and flow tasks. The data ping-pong is not the issue. So in the mean time do yourself a favor and learn as much as you can out of science, rather than faddy techs: backtracking, dynamic programming, A*, hungarian algorithm, support vector machines, red-black trees, markov chains, monte carlo methods, drinking philosophers, decaying windows, bloom filters ...

How many of these can you solve? http://www.interviewstreet.com/recruit/challenges

clyfeon Python and Django on Heroku

Any reason why you left Rails for Django?

clyfeon Ask HN: How does (or could) machine learning help you?

http://www.datawrangling.com/how-flightcaster-squeezes-predi...

http://www.infoq.com/articles/flightcaster-clojure-rails

clyfeon Strata Web Framework

I find it similar to connect/express http://expressjs.com/guide.html but a less tasty DSL and nothing new, or am I missing something? I'm sure one inspired the other since the API is strikingly similar (app.use app.get etc), strange that no comparison is given. Anyway, kudos to the devs for free software!

clyfeon Puffer - A Rails 3.1 Admin Interface

ActiveScaffold is the lost art of administry. I found no other plugin to mach it in terms of features, instant gratification, configurability, code modularity etc. Volker made a titanic job porting to rails 3 (in production on my project), and now official branch is also pushing to rails 3. Only downside is a hard learning curve (ironically it does nothing special other than you usually code Rails apps, just injects methods in controllers and a few other nuts and bolts)

Also see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2546199

I find admin_assistant to be similar to AS but does not compare in terms of features/customizability. I wouldn't call them "generators" more like "code injectors", code that you can override (a natural thing in OOP).

Another big + for AS is the plethora of plugins/bridges (that also have the same philosophy of instant gratification):

https://github.com/vhochstein

https://github.com/vhochstein/active_scaffold/tree/master/li...

For example add CanCan to Gemfile, define abilities and BAM - user are restricted accordingly.

Shameless plug: CanCan bridge and a few others are contributed by yours truly.

Oh, and it's also highly documented (thanks Sergio & team) https://github.com/activescaffold/active_scaffold/wiki

Anyway, Puffer looks nice.

clyfeon Ask HN: What is the purpose of social media?

I use twitter for news, follow scientists & technologists, I see many links there before HN.

I think platforms like FB are for showing off and looking for chicks and stalking people.

SN interest me because they are yet to be explored medium. There are many algorithms that enable you to find out nifty things. See https://github.com/clyfe/cywiky/wiki/Social-Media-Analytics and http://www.hilarymason.com/

clyfeon Ask HN: How to develop a eCommerce website.

Your question is too broad, so I'm going to give a broad answer.

I would use the Ruby language and Ruby on Rails framework and customize the Spree http://spreecommerce.com/ E-Commerce software.

clyfeon CoffeeScript: JavaScript without the Fail (slides)

The epiphany is when you realize how isomorphic to python/ruby javascript is! That is really lucky!

clyfeon Twitter will start serving you promoted tweets from accounts you don’t follow

I'd like to start a twitter client that "curates content" based on ML and NLP. "Curating of content" is on twitters "OK can do" list as far as I know. What do you guys think about that?

"curates content" = skip the noise, more bacon.

older thread here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2971204

clyfeon Ask HN: Validate idea - Twitter client that filters your stream

It says "curation of content" is allowed

clyfeon Ask HN: Whats the best way to keep track of your "to-do's" w/ your co-founder?

try https://workflowy.com/

clyfeon Setting Up A New Machine for Ruby Development - as used at 37signals these days

What benefits does Unicorn give over Passenger?

clyfeon Ask HN: Learn Ruby by Reading Source Code

https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra

https://github.com/stefankroes/ancestry

https://github.com/jnicklas/carrierwave

https://github.com/ernie/meta_where

https://github.com/ryanb/cancan

clyfeon Open source is illegal?

    On page 64 of the 'Specifications', in a paragraph
    highlighted in yellow, the ministry writes: 
    "All versions of software that are part of the offer 
    may not be published under a 'free software license' 
    - GPL or similar."

When you licence your solution to the government, you do so under a commercial licence. The 'Specifications' were asking you not to have any parts of your software under a free license (to/from third parties).

Of course this move is to limit competitiveness since EU explicitly favors open software: http://www.osor.eu/eupl/introduction-to-the-eupl-project

This limits the little guys that try to cut costs by using open software as building blocks for the solution, so only the giants vendoring expensive "enterprise" solutions can participate. And rest assured, open solutions are many times of better quality.

clyfeon Official enrollment for Stanford's online AI class has begun

Clicky http://www.aiqus.com/

clyfeon Official enrollment for Stanford's online AI class has begun

http://ml-class.com/ http://db-class.com/