a work on process

notes from another web developer

Weekend Links


7 months ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
MockSMTP.app bills itself as “smart and simple e-mail testing for new apps and websites on Mac OS X” and works as a non-delivering SMTP server so you...

Weekend Links


7 months ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
The usual round of Rails 3 updates: Pratik writes about the new Active Record Query Interface. I’ve had trouble with chaining nested scopes, so am very...

Help me clear some shelves?


7 months ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
I’ve got quite a few tech books I never get round to using and I’d rather like to reclaim the shelf space they take up. I’ve tried selling some on...

Week 123


7 months ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
The last week of January’s here already and it seems like I’m still trying to sign off on the same projects I’ve been on all month. It’s not all...

Weekend Links – 24nd January 2010


7 months ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
So perhaps calling these Friday Links was overly ambitious. From now on they’ll be weekend links, which allows me at least a little more flexibility.This...

Week 122


7 months ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
So it’s Friday afternoon and I’m only just writing my weeknotes. In a rush. There’s something appropriate in that. It’s been a busy week and I find...

Friday (ish) links – January 15th 2010


7 months ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
A few random selections from this week’s reading. Discussions of online privacy continue to rumble on. ReadWriteWeb had a piece about (facebook’s) Mark...

Week 121


8 months ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
In his weeknotes for last week, Matt Webb commented that “The first week back after new year is tough. It’s like dropping sudently onto a bike halfway...

Friday Links – January 8th 2010


8 months ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
It’s time for me to take another stab at occasional link blogging. While I really appreciate those who blog individual links, I seem to keep coming back...

More notes from a Rails 3.0pre upgrade


8 months ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
This is a follow-on from my piece on how I got the (development version of) Catapult Magazine up and running with Rails 3.0pre. If you haven’t already...