December 21, 2008 Comments Off
A new version of Times Tables for the iPhone/iPod Touch has been submitted and approved by the app store. This release focuses on improving the results shown at the end of each quiz. The main changes are: the questions are now individually marked with a star given for each answer that is correctly given on [...]
December 3, 2008 Comments Off
I have released a couple of iPhone/iPod Touch apps recently but have yet to create a space for them on this website. It has been an interesting experience developing for the platform even if I haven’t quite go my head around Objective-C. It certainly isn’t the same as programming for BeOS or Ruby on Rails [...]
June 11, 2008 Comments Off
acts_as_confirmable is a Ruby on Rails plugin that is useful when you want to know who ticked a check box and when they did so. It can be found at http://github.com/kumo/acts_as_confirmable/tree/master. This plugin treats a datetime attribute and an integer attribute as a boolean. This boolean can then be used as normal attribute in a [...]
April 1, 2008 Comments Off
Over the next couple of posts I thought that I would like to discuss the redevelopment of my hiragana and katakana quiz software. This software originally started out as a command-line Perl script, became a PHP web script, before turning into a Ruby on Rails web application. Unfortunately, although the development language changed and possibilities [...]
February 14, 2008 Comments Off
Today after upgrading RSpec I ran a user story that I had just written and received a wonderful error: You have a nil object when you didn’t expect it! (NoMethodError). The error occurred while evaluating nil.add_scenario. I didn’t even think to check my user story because the syntax highlighting looked fine and it made sense [...]
I think it is now time to discuss the quiz poll results. Thank you everyone who spent some time voting and especially those that left comments. The current results can be seen in the graph below…