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Transactional Migrations Plugin

almost 6 years ago by Simon Harris on My hovercraft is full of eels.
I wrote a while ago on utilising transactional DDL in your ruby on rails migration scripts so I decided to create a plugin. In a nutshell: Transactional...

Hoopla

almost 6 years ago by Simon Harris on My hovercraft is full of eels.
The National Breast Cancer Foundation is Australia's national fundraising body for breast cancer research and is hosting a charity event at beautiful Rippon...

Schema Validations Plugin

almost 6 years ago by Simon Harris on My hovercraft is full of eels.
After listening to Prag Dave's Keynote Speech this afternoon, I was motivated to implement some of the things he'd been asking for. Here's my first cut...

Ploojins

almost 6 years ago by Simon Harris on My hovercraft is full of eels.
I'm not sure anyone else really bothers but today I decided I'd try listing to the Text-to-Speech version of this blog by clicking on the Listen to this...

A Plea to the Ruby on Rails Core Team

almost 6 years ago by Simon Harris on My hovercraft is full of eels.
Yet another plea: Please don't add foreign-key migrations, schema validations or for that matter acts_as_taggable or any significant number of the myriad...

That Weird Devil Number

almost 6 years ago by Simon Harris on My hovercraft is full of eels.
This morning, my brother was sitting at his laptop attempting to get FreeBSD to mount a ReiserFS partition without much success—some permissions problem...

Daily Musings

almost 6 years ago by Simon Harris on My hovercraft is full of eels.
Be warned, this is somewhat of a stream-of-consciousness even if a little edited. I was sitting at work today pondering, among other things, some particularly...

A Plea to JetBrains

almost 6 years ago by Simon Harris on My hovercraft is full of eels.
I'm back doing some Java work at the moment and although coding in Java feels somewhat like trying to speak with a mouthful of peanuts—compared with...

A Nation of Zombies

almost 6 years ago by Simon Harris on My hovercraft is full of eels.
I'm usually reticent about making politically motivated blog entries but today I was having a to-and-fro via email with a friend of mine when she made a...

No More Delicious Links

almost 6 years ago by Simon Harris on My hovercraft is full of eels.
When I moved to FeedBurner I hardly ever used delicious and I thought it might be interesting to have any new links included as part of my feed. These days...