Serve, RadiantCMS, Design and Prototyping (Interview)
Adam sat down with Designer/Developer John Long, creator of RadiantCMS about his new project Serve, design, and running a successful open source project. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! 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!