malaprop, n. 1. The portfolio of Peter
Harkins, a web developer in Chicago.
2. The humorously grotesque
misuse of a word, esp. by using a word similar in sound; a word
so used. "She's as headstrong as an allegory on
the banks of the Nile."
Launched on Halloween 2007, NearbyGamers was my first major Rails project, a free service for tabletop gamers to set up groups. It heavily integrates with the Google Maps API, includes subtle IP address geolocation (so visitors see content local to them), and includes a large and growing wiki of games people play.
Actually, there were a [...]
More than any other project, ListLibrary sold me on automated testing. There’s an endless variety of bizarre, broken things that email clients do and trying to present a thread coherently (let alone correctly) would be impossible without the careful, rigorous safety net of automated tests.
Because they didn’t exist in Ruby when I started, I also [...]
