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Behind the curtains of Zeitgeist

over 1 year ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
I’m a little late getting to it, but Dan Catt’s writeup of “the [Guardian] Open Platform, APIs and Google App Engine” is well worth a read. Dan...

Coderack: Rack Middleware Directory

over 1 year ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
With Rails 3 inching ever closer, there’s likely to be a good bit of attention on Rack Middleware over the coming months. It’s there as an option in...

JangoMail, lackadaisical security, and a workaround

over 1 year ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
A client recently asked me to integrate their site with the JangoMail mass mailing system. I wanted to keep them happy so agreed to investigate, but was...

Week 140

over 1 year ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
It’s been a week of tying up loose ends in an effort to get invoices out the door and perhaps have a focussed start to the new month. The next step of...

Character encodings, Rails 3 and Ruby 1.9.2

over 1 year ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
In a lengthy blog post detailing many of the intricacies and some of the politics relating to character encodings in Ruby, Yehuda Katz has a few paragraphs...

Week 138

over 1 year ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
Another week, another chance to reflect on where it went. The big news of the week was the launch of the Ninja Tune XX website mentioned below. I’m still...

Wanting to understand the web

over 1 year ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
Numerous people who are better at keeping on top of things than I am have already talked about how good Ben Ward’s “Understand the Web” is, but I...

jQuery Offline

over 1 year ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
jQuery Offline is yet another new project from the seemingly unstoppable Yehuda Katz. This one provides wrappers around jQuery’s JSON fetching functions...

has_many_polymorphs and Rails 3

over 1 year ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
I’m gradually porting a number of my older Rails apps over to Rails 3. The main motivation is a chance to really put the new version through its paces...

Ninja XX

over 1 year ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
Its been twenty years since Coldcut formed Ninja Tune and they’ve got a lot planned to celebrate that anniversary. There’ll be events, a very special...