Good Interaction

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Yesterday on a Mumboe hackday, @norobotdiving and I worked on a JSONP exploratory project. We produced an HTML/JS page that processes JSONP requests and a rails app that serves up JSONP.

I am no unix/linux/ruby/rails/git expert—I have a light to decent working knowledge of each. In about an hour today, I:

• Created accounts on GitHub and Heroku
• Created a GitHub repository for the HTML/JS project, and
• Deployed the rails site to Heroku (and it’s running!)

Both Heroku and GitHub were straightforward, and their help docs, especially for the first-time user, were excellent. The services are to be praised for their simplicity, and the interaction design is top notch.