http://beginsinwonder.com code, poetry, philosophy, folly Fri, 02 May 2008 21:41:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://beginsinwonder.com/2008/05/03/alonetone/ I work on Ruby on Rails plugins fairly often, and I'm always curious how people make their plugins configurable. For example, ActiveMessaging uses several config files - some are yaml, some are ruby - all of them get loaded when the plugin gets initialized. ActiveMessaging has more than a bit ... http://beginsinwonder.com/2007/10/15/ruby-on-rails-plugin-configuration/ We had some fun folks from both the station/network side of PRX, and the independent producer side of the biz come hang out with us and talk about what to do next. Much of what we heard is now fermenting into the sweet brew of the next PRX release. ... http://beginsinwonder.com/2007/06/26/the-4th-network-todd-mundt-on-prx/ With the Tapestry tap celebration this weekend, it's just in the nick of time that the website for the Beantown Tapfest is now fleshed out. I still need to spend some time making it prettier, adding images and such things, but most importantly it now has the list of events, and ... http://beginsinwonder.com/2007/05/18/beantown-tapfest-live/ ...it's small, but found a bug in the new filter code in the ActionController for rails edge. Showed up using habtm with ActiveScaffold - go figure. Lesson learned - Array.insert should probably be named Array.insert! - it changes the underlying array, and sometimes that's not what you mean to do. http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8383 Now we'll see ... http://beginsinwonder.com/2007/05/17/my-first-rails-patch/ We use Amazon S3 at PRX for images and more importantly all our audio files. We love it. What we really want to do is use EC2 - look at the gigavox success story on amazon's site - we need almost the same things, and want to implement almost the ... http://beginsinwonder.com/2007/05/09/trying-amazon-ec2-waiting-impatiently/ comatose is a lovely terse cms that you can integrate into a web application - unlike other rails cms systems which are the application. Thing is, terse is great until you need something it does not do. At PRX we wanted to be able to upload/resize/attach images and ... http://beginsinwonder.com/2007/05/02/comatose-extensions/ Weekend America has a segment this week, and a spot on their home page, about the public radio talent quest. Bill Radke interviews Jake Shapiro about the contest, and what it'll take to win. http://beginsinwonder.com/2007/04/21/weekend-america-covers-public-radio-talent-quest/ NY Times has some coverage today on the Talent Quest Competition that PRX has undertaken with a grant from CPB. Contest opens April 16th - be or pick the next Ira Glass! read more | digg story http://beginsinwonder.com/2007/04/02/competition-begins-for-public-radio-idol/ I just wrote up a post for the PRX blog about how we are using Amazon S3 and ActiveMessaging. Have a look, there's also a very short prez I gave at the IMA 2007 Conference showing how we use S3, ActiveMq, Rails, ActiveMessaging and other junk like that to make our ... http://beginsinwonder.com/2007/03/10/prx-uses-activemessaging/