Serve, RadiantCMS, Design and Prototyping (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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!