March 2010
16 posts
ooh… upcoming sigur rós album ‘Go’ is streaming live with NPR http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125217376
Simply _loving_ the new Mailer API in Rails 3. Massive thanks to @raasdnil for making my life better.
Nice to get an extra long wknd in NSW: http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/cru/ll_cru.nsf/pages/cru_daylightsaving
Been hacking the past 2 weeks on a new app with Rails3 (beta)… and really loving it. Far fewer issues than I expected, and lovely new APIs
Spent the morning chatting about Moodle - seems like ages since I’ve done that!
Sitting in the car in a backstreet of Armidale while Jen makes a house call… brought the laptop in case it’s a long one…
Great article about employee retention in programming. http://bit.ly/xUqjq via @gakman Applicable elsewhere too, methinks.
So many different versions of things right now - ruby, rails, bundler… RVM is helping me to hold it together… just…
Officeworks.com.au password policy encourages poor security: “Password can contain a maximum of 8 characters, and no lowercase letters”
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Rocco and Docco →
Rocco and Docco look like great tools for developing online documentation for our projects. I think I’ll need to make time this week to get Rocco into a project to test it out.
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Victorian boutique wine →
Not the most awesome site… but it looks like a fantastic business. The Giant Steps / innocent bystander Winery is blending boutique wine production, bistro, organic coffee roasting, beer production, bakery, cheese production and more. Sounds like a road trip down south might be in order!
Great to be at my first @agencyrainford #workatjelly in ages. Have taken a comfy spot on the sofa.
14 sets of icons for mobile apps →
I’m not normally all that impressed with free fonts, icons, etc… but some of these sets of mobile icons are really very nice.
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Embedded eBooks in your browser - with js →
The guys at InventiveLabs have released an in-browser eBook reader - check it out for demos etc… or grab the source at http://github.com/joseph/Monocle
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jQuery throttle / debounce →
Often in an app, I’ve needed to fire off a stack of ajax calls, and could really have used a simple way of bundling them together and ensuring that they’re always called at regular intervals. Ben Alman’s throttle/debounce gives us just that fuctionality- with a wonderfully simple API.
Back from 7 relaxing, internet-free days in Bellingen; now to catch up with the world…