Ding Ding Ding

Ding Ding Ding

Great times are great indeed. It seems to me that everywhere I look things are bubbling : social stuff, technological stuff, … it’s buzz time and it’s all around.

If you follow my Twitter account you might have spotted OpenSource activity in a new entity I’m creating : Udot .
The main project is Sol, a modular, opensource, Ruby apps hosting platform. I did a 14 days run on it to write the basics and I’m now on and off finalizing the first milestone.

Then I played around … Sol was an oppportunity to test Sinatra in a deeper (as said in previous post), and to play a bit more I jumped around and grabbed the interesting post (I don’t care about what people say if that redesign in reasonnable or not, it just looks nice to me) by Andy Rutledge .

I like the simple, clean, “you decide what’s interesting” look at news so I also grabbed NY Times API doc and a API key and sat down to play. Twitter’s bootstrap helped to get a quick layout too. And I ended up with something simple .

Yep it’s pretty easy. Made in about half a day, with some refactoring in the end. The code is under MIT License and available at github.com/Udot/Clochette .

If I’ve time I will work on the design to get something close to Andy’s as I like the colors and stuff too.