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Week 152

13 days ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
This is always a strange week in my annual calendar. So much of my work is focussed around Greenbelt—which is now less than a week away—that many, many...

Week 151

21 days ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
A calmer week at last. I tend to find that I’m especially prone to procrastination in weeks like this one, when there’s finally some breathing room...

Bundler and Monit playing nicely together

21 days ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
I’ve been setting monit up to keep an eye on the various parts associated with a Rails app (2.3.x but patched to use Bundler for gem management) and ran...

Week 150

26 days ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
Another week down and once again I can’t quite remember what was achieved. Uppermost in my mind is a client meeting from Wednesday that seemed very positive...

Delayed Job dying silently

~1 month ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
I’ve just completed migrating a client site from BackgrounDRb to delayed_job (which is a huge relief on several levels). I had hoped to complete the process...

Suite 4

~1 month ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
Alex has beaten me to the punch with Shut the door, have a seat: Suite 4, announcing the fact that a selection of the small businesses on our floor have...

Week 149

~1 month ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
A fortnight of intense activity seems to have been the unfortunate result of taking a week off to go on holiday. One project had slipped because the client...

I18n and “undefined method each for false:FalseClass”

~1 month ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
I’ve never really had much need for Rails’ i18n support, but a new project is going to be using it extensively. I was a bit thrown by an error that...

Week 146

~1 month ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
As I write I am sitting on the floor of my sister’s hotel room in Paris as she and Kari watch the World Cup Final and my daughter sleeps in the next room...

Week 145

2 months ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
This is the first week in several (probably since I last wrote some weeknotes) that it seems conceivable I might get to the end of the week’s list of...