Dan Ahern

Posts Tagged ‘ruby

20 Aug, 2008

Mephisto, Blog or Pain in the Ass?

Posted by: danahern In: ruby| thoughts

Recently I was asked to look into doing some customizations for the Mephisto blog for a customer.  I figured “well it’s Rails, and I know rails, so sure I could do it”.  However, thirty minutes after opening up the code I decided that Mephisto is no longer really a Rails application.  I know I’m going [...]

13 Aug, 2008

On Environs

Posted by: danahern In: projects| ruby

This app was tricky in two ways. First it was the first real Facebook app I have done, which meant there was a large learning curve as things that work just fine with a regular Rails site some times just don’t work with Facebook. Ajax and JavaScript in particular are completely different, and require [...]



  • mikhailov: It was great event for us, because give the time together, expirience and joy with rails. Thanks to the railsrumble!
  • Maverick Conceptions » Blog Archive » Rumble 2008… What I Learned: [...] and administration, neither which would have helped us achieve our goal in anyway. Dan wrote a great article outline the work he did before hand
  • mikhailov: This event was unique! Participation in this competition has given me the knowledge and skills in programming

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By day, I'm the Lead Developer for a small startup. By night, I'm writing social applications and managing development for Powered By Geek.