Is Battleclinic in need of a doctor?
I spent a few hours yesterday and today poking around Battleclinic’s killboard. Say ‘Battleclinic’ or ‘Griefwatch’ to anyone considering themselves a web developer or EVE third-party dev and you’ll probably receive a derisive snort or a simple laugh; it may have a lot of data, but the interface is pretty horrific. And I mean horrific. [...]
Getting started with Rails and Nanite
Woo, time for a purely Ruby/Rails post. I’ve not done one in a while, so here goes. In EVE Metrics 2.0 I’ve been looking to replace the previous delayed_job system with a more robust and fault-tolerant system. A while ago I attended the Ruby Manor conference, and saw an excellent talk on Nanite by George [...]