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Week 149

almost 2 years 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...

Suite 4

almost 2 years 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...

Delayed Job dying silently

almost 2 years 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...

Week 150

almost 2 years 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...

Bundler and Monit playing nicely together

almost 2 years 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 151

almost 2 years 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...

Week 152

almost 2 years 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...

Rails 3 Theme Support

over 1 year ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
A few months back I set out to port theme_support (my rails plugin to allow one app to serve different views under various conditions) to Rails 3. I got...

Adding actions to Devise controllers

over 1 year ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
Adding Actions to Devise Controllers It wasn’t the most fun I could imagine having during a “holiday season” but while holed up in Chicagoland over...

Seen through devices

over 1 year ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
I’ve been musing on Mike Kuniavsky’s notes from his Microsoft Social Computing Symposium for a few days. While his focus is ostensibly on physical products...