Rails on akos.ma

Revisiting Ruby on Rails

Fri, 20 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0200

I’ve blogged about Ruby on Rails quite a few times in the past 18 years. I’ve delivered lots of Rails apps, I’ve used it for my own company, and I have been a historic fan of Rails against all odds and against all opinions.

Back to Monoliths

Fri, 19 May 2023 00:00:00 +0200

So Amazon Prime Video (of all people!) published a blog post about how they’re returning to monoliths, relayed by DHH, generating lots of noise, to the point that even Dr. Werner Vogels himself, CTO at Amazon, had to pour some thoughts about the subject.

Killer Apps

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0200

The D programming language lacked a “killer app” to break through. Another brilliant language suffered from this situation, objectively deserving a much better fate than the one it had; Smalltalk.

Running akosma software

Fri, 07 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0200

As I celebrate 25 years of work as a software developer, I look back at one of the most thrilling and frantic times in my professional life: those five years in which I worked as a freelance professional.

Elixir and Phoenix Framework

Fri, 25 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0100

I’ve been learning a bit about the Elixir programming language lately, and for that I created a small app using the Phoenix Framework.

Text Editors for Work

Fri, 21 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0100

There has been a particular text editor that defined each period of my career as a software developer. This article is a summary of that history, so far.

Senbei 1.3 hits the App Store!

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0200

Our application Senbei has been updated to version 1.3! Senbei is the iPhone client of the popular Fat Free CRM application by Michael Dvorkin, written in Ruby on Rails.

A nicer cortito, courtesy of Zerofee

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0200

Those who follow me on Twitter are certainly aware of my endless sequence of shared links, some of them shortened using the akos.ma domain, itself powered by cortito, one of my most popular open source projects.

iPhone Apps without Objective-C

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Yes, it’s possible. Even if Objective-C is one of my preferred programming languages, in any case I think it’s worth mentioning that, 2 years after the official iPhone SDK has been announced, the iPhone development landscape has really grown up, and many, many different options are available today. This article provides a very high-level enumeration of some options I’ve found on the web, but I’m sure there are even more alternatives around.

Interview sur IB com Magazine

Sat, 31 May 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Interview by Marie-José Jones, published in the June 2008 issue of IB com magazine (download the PDF scan of the article).