a work on process

notes from another web developer

Book Review: Learning Drupal 6 Module Development


over 3 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
Last autumn’s release of Pro Drupal Development was a significant moment in the history of the popular CMS, providing for the first time a relatively...

Greenbelt Social Media: What was different this year?


over 3 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
Yesterday, responding to a post Steve wrote on our Social Media efforts at Greenbelt I noted that it’s important to remember that this wasn’t the first...

Lessons from the Greenbelt Social Media project


over 3 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
This post is a follow-up to my initial thoughts on our Social Media efforts at this year’s Greenbelt. Going into Greenbelt I’d made some fairly naive...

Greenbelt Social Media: Initial Thoughts


over 3 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
For this year’s Greenbelt a group of us decided it was time to beef up the festival’s ’social media’ output. With approval from the powers-that-be...

Announcing image_associations


over 3 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
Discussions of multi-model forms and nested models in Rails has been revived recently, with various changes appearing in Edge Rails, plugins like attribute_fu...

Book Review: Building Dynamic Web 2.0 Websites with Ruby on Rails


over 3 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
Massive interest in Ruby on Rails over the past few years was quickly mirrored in book sales. Early entrants like the (near definitive) Agile Web Development...

Book Review: Ruby on Rails Web Mashup Projects


over 3 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
Providing a whistlestop tour through building a range of Ruby on Rails applications on the back of other services, Ruby on Rails Web Mashup Projects is...

links for 2008-07-26


over 3 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
cfis : Resurrecting libxml-ruby Ruby's XML handling has been lacking and until recently showed little sign of life. This may be just the news we were waiting...

Deploying a Drupal Site with Capistrano 2


over 3 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
A little over a year ago I wrote up some instructions for deploying drupal sites using capistrano. It’s proved a popular entry, still getting a good bit...

The victory of version control


over 3 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
It’s always fascinating to see how applying good practice in one area can lead to unforeseen benefits. The article on version control with subversion...