Psst! HMIS Update
Team Lazarus have been good little worker gnomes – yet even they need a good and earned holiday break! We’re still on track with Project:Seraph – the codename for Digital Gnome’s HMIS. I’m afraid though we were not immune to the Ruby on Rails vs CakePHP (or other PHP Web framework). We spent some time developing two codebases for the server and….it’s hard to pick. I want to merge them both. For me, once I read up on the Ruby language I got sooo much more out of using RoR. CakePHP, however plays to my PHP experience. And I’m totally ecstatic...
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From Wikipedia: A gnome is a mythical creature characterized by its extremely small size and subterranean lifestyle. The word gnome is derived from the New Latin gnomus. It is often claimed to descend from the Greek gnosis, “knowledge”. Growing up gnomes were never the lawn ornaments they are today. Gnomes were secretive creatures of tinkering with things arcane and things mechanical. That’s Digital Gnomes – tinkering, prodding and creating with the digital arcane… since the days of the Radio Shack TRS-80 and a tape deck. I wouldn’t say secretive –...
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