Well HomeMarks v2.0 is done and ready for the public. You can download it from my Github project page. It has a real simple rake app:bootstrap task that I came up with over the weekend will have you running a local copy in only a few seconds, give it a try. Sometime over the next few days, I'll move over the live site to this code base too. If you have not yet kept up on the implementation mantra I set down for the HomeMarks v2 project, you might want to read an older post as well as this excerpt from the project README.

Writing the new HomeMarks has been a great exercise. I've learned that the AJAX Head Design Pattern Implementation is more akin to developing a service-oriented application (SOA) since I have moved all client-side coupling from the controllers, like RJS, and only respond with HEAD or JSON data. Today I learned...

This is the first of a few articles covering the total rewrite of the HomeMarks.com code base as I upgrade it to Rails 2.1. The "AJAX Head" pattern is the moniker I have assigned to methodology that has come about during said rewrite and the design decisions I choose early on. The rules were simple...