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kodefoo is a small software company owned by Rob Lee and Deb Bassett. We have over 10 years experience in developing applications for the Web and in this period have worked with companies such as Orange, BT, Vodafone, Ananova, AOL and the BBC. We prefer an agile approach, focused on providing user-centered solutions from the ground up.
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Yes, it’s that time of year again and Kodefoo will be heading off to both XTech 2007 and Reboot 9.0. We’ll be taking on some session charing duties and we’re also running the lightning talks session (think 20:20) at XTech this year. The sessions we’ll be involved in are :
I can’t wait for these sessions, so I’d highly recommend attending if you can. If you’re in Paris and fancy meeting up then let us know !
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We’ve recently packaged up some software we created some time ago as our first product. Announcing ‘MMSAbility’. It allows you to easily accept MMS/Picture messages into your product-set by providing a (MMS) vendor-neutral interface for picture message parsing.
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As my talk for our local Ruby User Group meetup , I’ve prepared a presentation about the new RESTful features in Rails 1.2. It covers changes to routing, generators and gives a quick overview of the REST architectural style, where it originated and how it applies to Rails. To demonstrate these concepts, a RESTful blog is created. This blog is then used as part of a final example that uses ActiveResource to consume RESTful resources.
Download “Take a REST with Rails” (odp) (pdf)
Download the sample code blog.tar.gz and slurpr.tar.gz
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Deploying Rails on Ubuntu Dapper can be a tricky proposition, with the typical solution using Apache as a proxy to Mongrel. This article demonstrates how to setup Apache2.2 (including Dapper .deb packages) with Mongrel utilizing the mod_proxy_balancer module for Apache.
Ubuntu is fast becoming the distribution of choice for many people, having the ease of deployment and solid package management system that you would expect from a Debian based distribution and also benefits from a fast release cycle that results in up to date versions of many popular packages. In particular, Ubuntu ‘Dapper’ is the first Ubuntu release to provide long term support (6 years from release) and has achieved a healthy level of security and stability (in no small part due to it’s Debian roots).
Currently, the most popular Rails deployment stack is Linux, Apache 2.2, Mongrel and MySQL. This can present a problem when attempting to install with Ubuntu Dapper as Apache 2.0 is the only available Apache package within the official Dapper repositories. There is always the option to compile a version of Apache from source (which certainly has some benefits) however all the benefits of using a package management system are lost when taking this approach.
