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Quick update on Heathrow Tower

almost 3 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
While there haven’t been any visible changes to my Heathrow Tower project in the past couple of weeks beyond my throwing in a few greetings in other languages...

Selected Saturday Links

~3 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
Selected links that seem to deserve a bit more traction and longevity than a simple mention on twitter. Big themes this week were the release of Rails 2...

Rails 2.3 and theme_support part 3: Layouts

~3 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
In my ongoing efforts to bring my fork of theme_support in line with Rails 2.3 I’ve covered the core views and email, but when I left off earlier today...

Rails 2.3 and theme_support part 2: ActionMailer

~3 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
Stage 2 of fixing up theme_support for Rails 2.3 was making sure that ActionMailer picked up themed templates. That’s something I’d not quite cracked...

Rails 2.3 and theme_support

~3 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
A couple of months back, I realised that two of my projects (Generous and Catapult) could do with the help of the theme_support Rails plugin. Discovering...

Rails 2.3 and Grand Rapids WiFi

~3 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
I like to always have at least one project on the go that works as a testbed for a variety of new Rails techniques, tools and releases. For a long time...

Selected Saturday links

~3 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
For quite a while I used del.icio.us to post summaries of interesting links here on an almost daily basis. After a while I got a little tired of the aesthetics...

Tracking Heathrow with twitter

~3 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
A few months back—while we were discussing the number of talking objects appearing on twitter—Jenny pointed out to me that all Heathrow airport arrivals...

Migrating from attachment_fu to paperclip

~3 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
Thoughtbot have released a suite of plugins over the past few months that are enlivening the fields of Ruby on Rails file attachments (paperclip) and authentication...

Handling custom file attachments in Wordpress plugins

~3 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
I’ve been working on a wordpress plugin to make it easy to set a banner image for any blog entry outside the post content. The current approach is flawed...