# New Rails/Flex blog **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [May 29, 2007, 3:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-rails-flex-blog/105343 "2007-05-29T03:15:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![surplustronics](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@surplustronics](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/surplustronics)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 3:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-rails-flex-blog/105343/1 "2007-05-29T03:15:35Z")
Hi Guys n Gals… I’ve finally got round to putting up a blog, my way of giving back to the community. I’m going to cover stuff to with Flex and Rails, and some tidbits on syncing a huge legacy Filemaker (?!) database with Rails/MySQL… from an in the trenches perspective. Starting off with a case study of a Flex application I’m in the process of building which will be updated every couple of days as I get stuff done on it. Blog: [http://work.rowanhick.com/](http://work.rowanhick.com/) Feed: [Rowan Hick](http://feeds.feedburner.com/rowanhick) Feel free to look around, comment, pick it apart, get some ideas etc… ## Cheers Rowan web: [http://work.rowanhick.com](http://work.rowanhick.com) skype: rowanthenerd ---
**Author:** ![surplustronics](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@surplustronics](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/surplustronics)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 1:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-rails-flex-blog/105343/2 "2007-05-29T13:02:37Z")
Rowan, A big thanks for your contribution 🙂 Welcome to my RSS reader. ---
**Author:** ![surplustronics](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@surplustronics](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/surplustronics)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 5:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-rails-flex-blog/105343/3 "2007-05-29T17:38:51Z")
Nice. Welcome to my reader as well. One comment, the site is a bit difficult to read for a color-blind person. ---
**Author:** ![surplustronics](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@surplustronics](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/surplustronics)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 6:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-rails-flex-blog/105343/4 "2007-05-29T18:29:58Z")
Looks good. Just out of curiosity, what led you to go with WordPress? Also, any chance of you upping the font size a little? Grey-on-grey and grey-on-black is hard to read. ☹ Joe > **[Joe Grossberg](https://www.joegrossberg.com/)** > > Joe Grossberg is a software consultant and senior software engineer in San Francisco, specialized in full-stack JavaScript and Ruby on Rails. ---
**Author:** ![surplustronics](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@surplustronics](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/surplustronics)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 12:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-rails-flex-blog/105343/5 "2007-05-31T00:28:46Z")
Joon & Joe Good points about colour blind/small fonts etc… I just used a vanilla wordpress template… got to work on something more fitting and accessible. Installing wordpress sometime’s when it’s all about convenience a ‘one click install’ of a package is certainly more appealing that setting up a rails app (even though I love rails, I don’t love setting up a site!). I’m not the only one around with a PHP site for rails advocacy ! Thanks Rowan * * * web: [http://work.rowanhick.com](http://work.rowanhick.com) skype: rowanthenerd On May 29, 12:29 pm, Joe G. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Looks good. > > Just out of curiosity, what led you to go with WordPress? > > Also, any chance of you upping the font size a little? Grey-on-grey > and grey-on-black is hard to read. ☹ > > Joehttp://www.joegrossberg.com Joon wrote… Nice. Welcome to my reader as well. One comment, the site is a bit difficult to read for a color-blind person. On May 28, 9:14 pm, Rowan H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: ---
**Author:** ![surplustronics](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@surplustronics](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/surplustronics)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 3:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-rails-flex-blog/105343/6 "2007-06-01T15:09:01Z")
Okay I’ve tweaked everything round, should be much more readable for anyone that had difficulties. Not tested on IE, but looks fantastic on Firefox/Safari. Also a few fun little elements from my previous company’s branding… good for a laugh. ## Cheers R web: [http://work.rowanhick.com](http://work.rowanhick.com) skype: rowanthenerd