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Week 137

almost 2 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
Four day weeks always feel a bit odd. This week’s particularly so as I somehow managed to not be ill or work on the Bank Holiday. That doesn’t often...

Embracing the digital book

almost 2 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
I found Craig Mod’s “Embracing the digital book” a helpful read in the context of a current project. It’s a nice survey of the range of issues that...

Facebook’s Eroding Privacy Policy

almost 2 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
I’ve kept meaning to link to the EFF’s collection of excerpts from facebook’s privacy policies. They tell a pretty clear story. I recently deleted...

Asset bundling in Rails

almost 2 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
I stumbled across James Herdman’s piece on asset bundling in rails earlier this week. I’d always presumed you could do this but never got round to investigating...

Rubygems 1.4 will not support Ruby 1.8.6

almost 2 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
Eric Hodel writing a week or so ago: Ruby 1.8.6 is old and it’s API is lacking the forward-compatibility that Ruby 1.8.7 has for moving to Ruby 1.9....

Panic’s CSS3 in emails

almost 2 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
The Campaign Monitor blog has a nice write up of Panic’s use of CSS3 techniques in their email newsletters, particularly the email they sent out to announce...

Redis tutorial

almost 2 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
Simon Willison has published published the slides from his Redis workshop at the recent NoSQL EU conference. They’re pretty comprehensive, and delve beneath...

Echo Nest song API

almost 2 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
At last weekend’s Amsterdam Music Hack Day the Echno Nest guys announced their new and extended API. The song API looks like it could be a lot of fun...

Week 136

almost 2 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
It seems like it’s time to give this another go. With justinian and the Greenbelt relaunch over, this week has continued along the lines of the rest...

Chris Wanstrath on Github

almost 2 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
Obie Fernandez has a nice interview with Chris Wanstrath of Github up on InfoQ. Github continues to be fascinating, both the company as a startup and the...