I know I had this pending SO MUCH time. But when I wanted to write about it I simply couldn’t find the words to express what I actually felt.
Last August (damn! we are in October now!) was celebrated the most famous competition in the Ruby on Rails community which consists in setting a functional webapp and deploy it in less than 48h: the Rails Rumble.
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These days I am trying to accomplish one of my 2009 New Year’s resolutions: Learn Ruby on Rails and be able to prototype, code and design one functional web application (you know, I’m in exams time…)
I have already worked with Ruby on Rails before, but only from the designer’s point of view: being able to implement my designs without the application to crash. Anyway the workflow with RoR, the philosophy behind and its singularities definitely definitely hooked me. Furthermore I must say to my own shame that I have only coded in C programming language in order to pass my practical lessons at the University.
To gain an insight into what I am talking about let’s face a real problem with which I had to deal while I am building this application.
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I know that I’ve been kind of missing for some time but I have had some issues that kept me away from the computer. Don’t worry, you will be informed soon.
One of the pending tasks I had remaining was the review of Jack keane: Al rescate del Imperio Británico, a video game that Bloguzz (I’ve already told you that I love these people?) had kindly handed over me. This video game has been developed by Deck13 and 10tacle Studios and distributed by FX Interactive.
I really enjoyed playing this video game (as the staunch fan of graphic adventures that I am); it reminds me the time I used to play Day of the tentacle or Monkey Island. In fact, I think I won’t be wrong if I claim that it was deeply inspired in this LucasArts saga.
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