Hackety Hack on my Deskity Top

May 24, 2007 @ 08:24 PM | posted by carmelyne

(last updated: 06.19.07)

What is Hackety Hack?

That's a very good question. It all started with this article by _why back in 2003 titled "The Little Coder's Predicament". But I think the Hackety Hack manifesto is a better way to understand what it is than me babbling about it. :) So click on it and read on => The Hackety Manifesto.

My interest in it:

I've mentioned Hackety Hack on my RailsConf recap which was one of the topics of a BOF session I attended. Jaj and I were actually playing with it before I left for Portland. She finished lesson 1 and totally dug the whole experience. Since I came back, there is a newer version which doesn't spew gecko render errors. I am on Win XP 64bit and she's on Win XP Media. I was the only one that got the errors. I am glad that I don't get any errors anymore with v.0.5.1.

I am playing with Hackety Hack right now and going through the lessons since I was considering mentoring other kids at Jaj's school next school year. It'd be nice to know the ins and outs of the entire Hackety Hack app before I do any mentoring.

The target audience of the app is 13 and over. The eleven year olds seem to follow along well. There shouldn't be any problems for any adult to follow along. This in fact is one of the best way to start learning Ruby.

You can head on over to other Hackety Hack member pages and download their shared files. That's brilliant! There's also a forum that you can go to if you find yourself stuck on something and just want to ask others.

I am very pleased that the Linux version came out today. Waiting for the Mac version soon so I can fire it up on my MBP and say Hackety Hack on my Lapity Lap. (Oh AOK (Andrea) would be so proud of my rhyming!)

Update: (05/29/2007)
For further reading, check out Eric Mill's post on "Hackety Hack: A Growing Contingent".

[ Last updated: June 19, 2007 @ 05:43 PM ]

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# Starts with 'A'..'Z' Paginate / model
def self.sort(sort)
  if sort
    find(:all, :conditions => ['name LIKE ?', "#{sort}%"])
  else
    find(:all, :order => 'name')
  end  
end

# index action / controller
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