Serve, RadiantCMS, Design and Prototyping

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!