Archive for January 2009

Dbserialize update

I’ve given Sebastian Deutsch write access to my dbserialize repo on github and a few days ago he already made some minor changes, mainly improving the documentation and making the interface more consistent.

Dbserialize provides two rake tasks to store your current environments database tables to Yaml fixtures in db/fixtures and to fill the database with these fixtures.

That way it’s possible to store sample data consistently in the repository and for all developers on a project to use common sample data instead of manually generating something on every developer machine or sending database dumps around via email.

Check out the announcement here, the project page here, and the repository on github

The end is near

No, not of my blog!

Quite the contrary, I plan to slowly increase my blogging frequency and extend my topics beyond software.

No, the end of my time at Dortmund Technical University is in sight. Yesterday I registered my diploma thesis which I have six months to work on from now, with a deadline of July 20th.

I’ll probably even blog about my progress here since the topic is something a few web dev fellows might be interested in: A thin Web Application Framework based on Serverside JavaScript