Changelog Interviews

Serve, RadiantCMS, Design and Prototyping

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Adam sat down with Designer/Developer John Long, creator of RadiantCMS about his new project Serve, design, and running a successful open source project.

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Featuring:

  • Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

  • John Long of Wiseheart design
  • Serve is a rapid prototyping framework for web applications
  • John created RadiantCMS, later extended by Sean Cribbs
  • Radiant led John to a relationship with Pragmatic Programmers and formation of a Ruby Visual Identity team
  • Serve is basically the Rails View layer, sans the Model and Controller.
  • Serve’s makes it easier to use URLs that end in a / instead of file extension
  • Serve’s view helper are Rails compatible
  • Serve is Rack under the hood
  • Acoustic is Django-inspired and aims to be between Sinatra and Rails
  • “What Rails can learn from Django”
  • Running a successful open source project can take over your life
  • In the early days of Radiant, Subversion made it difficult to accept community contributions
  • Git and GitHub has increased community participation
  • Use Compass’s CSS3 module and save your sanity
  • Compass can change your design workflow
  • Fancy Buttons is a Compass plugin to easily create image-less buttons
  • Grab the code for Adam’s nifty Serve bootstrap, which adds easy support for Haml, Sass, Compass, and more.
  • Join the newly created Serve Users group

    • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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