27 September 2011
I realised something surprising the other day. Something so surprising that it has taken me over two weeks to get my head round it. Something that lead me to set up a new Flickr group to try and change it. Too many photographers are lazy. They spend no time to get better, and then sit [...]
26 September 2011
It’s pretty tough looking after 9 projects, a lot of things to keep an eye on. It’s even harder when some of the projects use a totally different process to the others. We are a Scrum shop, we follow the scrum process – mostly. Recently a few of our projects started to use Kanban, which [...]
21 September 2011
Once again, Facebook has rolled out some new changes, and once again my news stream is filled with updates along the lines of “Facebook has ruined MY internet” (come on, it wasn’t intended as a personal insult). The changes in question are the addition of lists as a first class entity (in the interface – [...]
10 September 2011
Do you think of writing a webapp in similar terms to creating a startup? I think that they are in very similar. Let me explain to you why, and see if you agree. I’ve been building and coding webapps for many years now. I have experience of working in a startup that went bust, and [...]
4 August 2011
Foreman is a gem that allows you to define what processes an (rails) app needs to run. For example background workers, pubsub etc. Typically I like to deploy my applications to at least two environments: staging and production, not to mention running it in development locally. I had to do a bit of wrangling to [...]
