Tools

Ours – have some!

  • Meteor: Thin widget framework for Ruby On Rails. With assorted widget plugins like, DHTML Menu, Countdown Timer, and more on the Meteor Catalog.
  • Aura-Site: Lean content management system for customer-maintainable web sites.
  • dbcompile: Rails plugin for compiling various SQL objects, like views, functions, and triggers.
  • fk-generator: Generate database foreign keys based on ActiveRecord metadata (:belongs_to).
  • active-scaffold-list-filters: Filters for the Rails Active Scaffold Plugin – Works on ActiveScaffold 1.2RC1.
  • m80: A flatfile-based metadata repository and integration with common build tools (make, ant, others). A code generation framework is included and is useful to conditionally generate code objects based on the deployment environment.
  • rails-free-DB-Migrate: db:migrate is great for agile database programming; but it requires all of Ruby on Rails :(. OK … not anymore; yes!

Under the Covers

  • Aura Insight – our big old data warehousing, business intelligence, and process automation platform. And now we even have a demo, installer, BI dashboard, admin console. Just in …. ported to Postgres!

We Like

  • Ruby on Rails: Rapid custom web application development framework
  • Ubuntu: Ubuntu is a secure, intuitive operating system that powers desktops, servers, netbooks and laptops.
  • Postgresql: Sophisticated open-source Object-Relational DBMS supporting almost all SQL constructs, including subselects, transactions, and user-defined types.
  • Python: an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, extensible programming language.
  • Trac: Project management and bug/issue tracking system. Provides an interface to Subversion and an integrated wiki.
  • Git and GitHub(www.github.com) : Fast Version Control System and Hosting Service respectively.
  • linode: VPS hosting as it should be.
  • hobo : The web application builder for Rails.
  • Scala : Scala is a modern multi-paradigm programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way.
  • WordPress : Swiss army knife of content systems in PHP of all things.
  • Oracle 11g : Old school, but very well documented and can be wired to perform.