From: David Teare <dteare@...>
Date: 2005-08-16T22:27:36+09:00
Subject: Re: New site built using Ruby on Rails

Thanks for the feedback.  The favorites were one of the most fun  
pieces to
implement.  Normally in a project I'm so busy with O/R mappings,  
configuring
frameworks, etc, that I never have time to look at the UI.  Thanks to  
RoR,
we had time to look at Ajax, XHTML standards, etc.

BTW - if you want to implement something like the favorites, you need
to follow this Ajax pattern if you want the ability to mark favorites  
without
forcing members to login: http://www.ajaxpatterns.org/Lazy_Registration

--Dave.

On 15-Aug-05, at 8:41 PM, luke wrote:

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> Nice one! I particularly like the 'Favourites' idea - seems a very
> intelligent way of improving functionality and increasing the chance
> visitors will come back (and probably more). Also points to an  
> interesting
> possibility for Ajax sites to implement a kind of 'native  
> bookmarking'.
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> "David Teare" <dteare@tearesolutions.com> wrote in message
> news:9160EFEF-2BD0-4AE7-8B96-9B5A11CF7F33@tearesolutions.com...
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> I wanted to introduce you to my latest site, palmsphere.com, which
>> was built using 100%
>> Ruby.  PalmSphere was created to provide an easy-to-use site for
>> users to find and download
>> applications for their mobile devices, like Palm, Pocket Pc, etc.  We
>> were amazed at how easy
>> RoR made application development and had enough time left over at the
>> end of the project to
>> implement Ajax in several places to make the user experience more
>> natural and responsive.
>>
>> Please check out the site and tell us what you think.  Any thoughts
>> or comments would be
>> greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> --Dave.
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