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Laurie Young: Scrum Master, Dancer, Photographer and Entrepreneur

Date archive for September, 2008

  • Capistrano Task Graph and 3 reasons why it sucks

    Core Capistrano task dependency tree

    Capistrano comes with a set of tasks ready to deploy your application. Unfortunately it doesn’t come with an easy way to view  those tasks, and how they are related. Here is the graph you are probably looking for This is a pretty crappy state of play! Given that Capistrano is the recommended way to deploy [...]

  • Shoot Shoreditch

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    A year or so ago now a good friend of mine asked me if I had ever heard of Shoot Experience, and was I interested in acompanying her on one of their shoot days. Naturally I jumped at the chance, and with typical speed it took over a year to actually sign up and do [...]

  • Silly Algorithms Over Lunch

    One of the things I absolutely knew I wanted when I was looking for a job, was to recapture the glory days of my student years, when we used to take a coffee break every morning, and come up with totally cool and utterly insane ideas. Such as proving that it was worth doing nothing [...]

  • Designing a Homeopathic Website Strategy

    Announcing two new websites, CrystalFlower and Avilian Its a few years now since I set my mother up with her first blog site. As a practicing homeopath I felt she needed to have an on-line web presence – more and more people rely on on-line search, so it seems an absolute necessity. Since then her [...]

  • 5 Tips for completing your PhD

    I seem to know a whole host of people, and veritable league in fact, of people who are finishing their PhD as I type this. This causes me no end of joy, daily tormenting them, asking how many words they wrote today (so far numbers like 200 look pretty good). However I remember when I [...]

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