Pete Forde on Jester
Pete Forde’s presentation on Jester is blowing my mind. I am totally going to steal his approach.
More to the point, this is a incredibly cool technology, and the presentation is coming with a great implied mini-tutorial on a few Ruby basics. Most appreciated was the realtime code demo. Seeing the database get modified by simple commands in Firebug’s Javascript console was a real “Aha!” moment for a bunch of us who like to see things before we believe they’re easy. :)
I think Jester will work well for this game idea I have. Definitely one to research and try out.
Something else that I thought was interesting was when Pete noted that we, as developers, often “aren’t creating for people anymore.” I’ve had a few conversations like that around here in the last day or so, and it’s about time that we start taking that idea even more seriously. Fortunately, it seems like more and more of us are at least thinking about it, but I think there’s still a lot of unrealized opportunities out there.Hm. More on that when I’m not posting via iPhone. ;) Thoughts?