authlogic is by far and away my favourite authentication framework for Rails. I’ve raved enough in my slides on Authlogic_RPX. It’s true beauty is making authentication so unobtrusive for application developers. However, the same can’t be said for Authlogic plugin developers. I spent quite a bit of time meandering through the authlogic source and other [...]
I’ve been playing foursquare regularly for about a month now, and even though I was teased by several people (you know who you are) at OpenWorld last week, I’ll continue to play. /me thumbs nose If you’re not familiar, foursquare debuted at SXSW this Spring, and it’s currently the latest shiny object of the early adopter [...]
I’ve just made Authlogic_RPX public for the first time and invite any rails developers to take a look. It’s a ruby gem that adds suppport for RPX authentication in the Authlogic framework for Ruby on Rails. With RPX, you get to support all the common authentication schemes in one shot (Facebook, twitter, OpenID etc). Authlogic_RPX [...]
So, we had some downtime overnight, not sure anyone noticed. Rich and I decided to make a couple tweaks to make the blog load faster. I removed Google Friend Connect, which didn’t seem to do much beyond create a static network with some infrequent discussion. I expect future changes to GFC that might be interesting, [...]