February 23, 2014 lazybuilder v0.3 The idea for lazybuilder came up during a recent coding dojo doing code kata. We were using Vim and …
January 24, 2011 Create MySQL database with Capistrano I was playing about with Capistrano over the weekend. I wanted to automate the deployment of a Rails …
January 24, 2011 Rake db:migrate MySQL gem dependency If you have already added gem ‘mysql2’ to your Gemfile but get a message saying that it …
December 24, 2010 Progressive Enhancement Progressive Enhancement is a web development technique or pattern. The basic premise is that a web …
October 20, 2010 Technology Synergy I started writing this post quite some time ago but never got around to wrapping up the loose ends. …
October 20, 2010 Testing - what to test when After tweeting that I wanted to have suggestions for blog entries I got a single reply asking for my …
April 07, 2010 Scraping Railscasts I had a few moments today to get reacquainted with Ruby and Rails programming. It has been a while …
February 18, 2010 Server rebuild – part 1 I have been running my own server for some time now but my requirements have changed and the current …
February 09, 2010 The rise and fall of waterfall - on you tube If you have been in software development for a while this might make you chuckle :) The Rise And …
November 18, 2009 Testing abstrations These ideas were presented as at ThoughtWorks Agile Southeast conference in Atlanta. The idea for …