Archive April 2008

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Nedforce developers compete in RAD Race 2008

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

On June 11 and 12 the RAD Race 2008 takes place: A high-profile contest in which pairs of developers compete against each other for two days to implement as much functionality of an application as possible. This year two teams of Nedforce developers participate.

Although this year’s assignment will only be published at the start of the race, it is already divulged that the assignment will be an application with an administrative nature, and will involve geographic information systems, business intelligence and an enterprise mashup .

The Nedforce teams will face the challenge with Ruby on Rails and other open source software. The following Nedforce software engineers will (again) promote Ruby on Rails:

  • Arthur Holstvoogd
  • Roel van der Hoorn
  • Stefan Henzen
  • Stefan Kroes
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RubyEnRails 2008 session on Rails software metrics

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

On June 10, RubyEnRails 2008 will take place: the Dutch conference on Ruby and Rails. On this conference, co-organized by Nedforce, COO Roderick van Domburg will host a session on how Rails software metrics can be used to manage software quality.

Within Computer Science there are many way to measure the quality of software. Ruby on Rails is no difference in this regard. In this session, Roderick van Domburg will cover code coverage, cyclomatic complexity, coupling and cohesion and explain how they can be used to improved Ruby on Rails applications.

During RubyEnRails 2007 Roderick van Domburg and Sjoerd Andringa, lead developer at Nedeforce, demonstrated how to write an open source YouTube clone in just 45 minutes.

Registration is open on: http://2008.rubyenrails.nl/.

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New Extension for Radiant CMS: Escape XML

Monday, April 14, 2008

Nedforce offers a free extension to correctly escape XML in Radiant CMS, a open source Rails web content management system.

Escaping is a technique to encode special characters in XML documents. Correctly escaped XML is inevitable for publishing feeds in accordance with the latest standards.

Websites that comply with the latest standards have a higher accessibility for a wider range of visitors. This enables organizations to distribute their information in the most effective way.

Nedforce offers commercial services for implementation and management of websites based on the Radiant web content management system. Radiant CMS is a lightweight WCM system that fits the needs of SME perfectly.

Nedforce is expert in Ruby on Rails development and hosting. Using this proven technology we deliver first-class Web 2.0 applications with short turnaround times, a flexible mentality and compliant with the latest standards.

Please contact us for more information.