Serve, RadiantCMS, Design and Prototyping (The Changelog #52)

Adam sat down with Designer/Developer John Long, creator of RadiantCMS about his new project Serve, design, and running a successful open source project.

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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Notes and Links

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!