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Although Windows Mobile (and Microsoft technologies in general) seems not sexy, but like it or not, they are widely used for enterprise usage.

We have the opportunity to work with one of our Jakarta client building a Windows Mobile application that interfaces with a Ruby on Rails RESTf...

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Although Windows Mobile (and Microsoft technologies in general) seems not sexy, but like it or not, they are widely used for enterprise usage.

We have the opportunity to work with one of our Jakarta client building a Windows Mobile application that interfaces with a Ruby on Rails RESTful web service. After a couple of months developing, we just finished it several weeks ago.

The Windows Mobile (WM) software, developed using Net CF 2.0 with C# Managed Codes and .Net ADO technology,  is to be used for one of the distributors of automotive oil in Indonesia, to be used for about 60 salespeople for sales management.

The data collected is then synced with the Ruby on Rails REST web service.

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In this project for a Netherland client in late 2009, one of the major features that we built is a multi-language feature for his existing Rails application, an interior design / product site. We have done multi-language featu...

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In this project for a Netherland client in late 2009, one of the major features that we built is a multi-language feature for his existing Rails application, an interior design / product site. We have done multi-language feature for several Rails applications in the past, using gettext, gibberish, gibberish_db, etc, but here we use Globalize2 plugin and Rails built-in internationalization I18n.

We used I18n for all our static contents, it’s a piece of cake. And all you need to do is to update that ymls files. For dynamic contents, we use Globalize2.

Here comes the fun part. Because you are most likely be working on an existing application, the bulk of the work is not making a nice back-end for multi-language objects, but it’s making sure the Rails application works correctly after we implement multi-language. It’s especially true when the application doesn’t have a complete test (rspec) suite.

Some things worth noting:

1. All occurrences of find_by_name will no longer work correctly. So grep that and modify accordingly
2. Basically all queries that use ‘name’ field, either on the select clause or condition clause, will also no longer work correctly
3. All routes that need locale path should also be added /locale/ to it
4. Javascript methods within a .js file that calls a Rails action and needs ‘locale’. Simply make a global Javascript variable for the locale and use that when necessary within the .js file
5. Javascript method that uses hard-coded words. Eg.
   this.value = ‘Beware’. Either we refactor it completely since it’s most likely we can do it another cleaner way, or we have to pull out that Javascript method from .js file to rhtml

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We helped maintain and upgrade the project mid till end of 2009. The project is a website that aims to gather donation money from the public by a unique and fun way.

Interesting features in this project include:

• Users can login into the site using their site account,...

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We helped maintain and upgrade the project mid till end of 2009. The project is a website that aims to gather donation money from the public by a unique and fun way.

Interesting features in this project include:

• Users can login into the site using their site account, Twitter account, Facebook account, and even Google account (using Google Friend Connect )
• We also implement ActiveMerchant to receive donation money
• We use a combination of Selenium to test Javascript, Cucumber, and Rspec for the test framework

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This is a career / job posting / job seeking site that offers simplicity compared to the established career sites elsewhere. Interesting Ruby on Rails features include:

• Paypal payment service to post a job
• Facebook Connect
• Determine location based...

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This is a career / job posting / job seeking site that offers simplicity compared to the established career sites elsewhere. Interesting Ruby on Rails features include:

• Paypal payment service to post a job
• Facebook Connect
• Determine location based on IP using GeoKit

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Beginning from late 2008 until now, our team of two RoR developers help a US-based startup client design, develop, deploy, upgrade and maintain a web-based application that serves as a social networking platform for stock brokers, where they can share stock forecasts, etc.

Interesting ...

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Beginning from late 2008 until now, our team of two RoR developers help a US-based startup client design, develop, deploy, upgrade and maintain a web-based application that serves as a social networking platform for stock brokers, where they can share stock forecasts, etc.

Interesting experience includes

• Using Insoshi open-source social networking RoR framework as the basis for the application.
• Using the Yahoo Finance API to access the most current stock information real time.
• As we have launched the first beta version, we utilize the best practices of SVN with branching, merging, and tagging.
• Using Fusion Chart instead of the usual OpenFlashChart or GoogleChart as it offers more graphing functionalities.
• Implementing Liquid templating engine so that the staffs of the company can generate their own HTML email with a certain set of allowable data.

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