Tag: rails

The following articles match the tag rails:

RailTrackr: a Rails 2.0 Flickr Browser.

RailTrackr is is an old project I worked on. It is a Rails app that merges together rails 2.0 with Flickr APIs to provide a stunning visual experience to navigate Flickr photosets.

MAY

19th

Borg 3.1 is out, and on github

I have released a new version of the Borg CMS that powers this blog (and is free for anyone to use for their own sites). Among the major new features: improved readability for the theme you are currently looking at, improved rendering support for tablets (including the Xoom) and smartphones, new support for draft pages and license notices and more bugfixes. Also, borg is now 100% hosted on github. You can find it here.

JAN

6th

Borg 3.0 is out!

After more than one and a half year, I’ve released a new version of Borg, v3.0. Borg is a minimalistic CMS I wrote to manage this site and made available as opensource to anyone interested in using it or contributing to it.

MAY

5th

Borg 2.5 is out!

A new and improved version of Borg, v2.5, has been released! Borg is a minimalistic CMS I wrote to manage this site and made available as opensource to anyone interested in using it or contributing to it. As you can see from the new look’n’feel (much whiter, much cleaner), the biggest change is the introduction of customizable graphic templates. Two are provided by default: InternetSharing, by Solucija and CoolWater, by StyleShout.

JUN

15th

Railtrackr Tags browsing is live


I’ve released a new version of RailTrackr that includes tag browsing capabilities. Watch this introductory video and play with it on www.railtrackr.com !

APR

16th

OpenID and Rails authentication on DevX.com


DevX.com has published my latest article, an introduction to OpenID and how to integrate OpenID authentication with Ruby on Rails 2.0. Read the full artile OpenID and Rails: Authentication 2.0 , or see my full list of articles for other topics.

MAR

10th

RailTrackr: Rails 2.0 meets Flickr!


RailTrackr is a brand new project I’m working on. It is a Rails that merges together rails 2.0 with Flickr APIs to provide a stunning visual experience to navigate Flickr photosets.

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The name is Riccardo Govoni. I’m a Software Engineer working in Google London. I have a passion for data visualizations, data mining, theoretical physics, xkcd, having lots of vi (or emacs, depending on the mood) buffers on screen and coding in general. Learn more about me.

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Have a look at the site blog, the Site map or a selection of some of the projects I work on (mostly in my spare time, likely to be out of date).

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Rhizosphere, is an innovative project to provide in-browser html-based spatial navigation and interaction on structured data.

Borg, brand new v3.2 is out!