Wednesday 5 December 2007

Lunchtime - FooMongers

We have a small group on site who meet Tuesday and Wednesday lunchtimes to discuss programming stuff.
(This includes people from the EBI and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute).

Today, we spent a bit of time debating the pros and cons of Bluetooth technology, and then Rob and I answered a few peoples queries on Ruby on Rails. I also pushed ClearPress (see cpan.org).

Rob mentioned MERB? as something I might lik to look into at the end of the session.

A good lunchtime discussion was had by all. More of the same next week I hope.

2 comments:

RobHu said...

MERB is like a light weight Rails:
http://merbivore.org/

Then there's Camping by _why:
http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/camping/

DataMapper:
http://www.datamapper.org/
Looks extremely cool. AR needs a competitor. I've got bored of waiting
for Og/Nitro to sort out their website and make proper examples /
documentation.

Also another ORM based on delayed SQL execution:
http://sequel.rubyforge.org/

RobHu said...

Here, have a nice blog post about Merb :P

http://rethink.unspace.ca/2007/12/3/merb-tastic