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Upgrading an app to Rails 3.0pre

~2 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
I used to be a strong adherent to tracking edge rails. Up until the release of rails 2.3 I let most of my frequently updated projects track edge with a...

Week 118

~2 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
In retrospect I probably shouldn’t have expected to hit the ground running when travelling with a one year old. Dealing with one’s own jetlag can be...

Week 117

~2 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
Ugh. The second week of doing these and I’m already late. I blame travel, or the lack of internet access for a couple of days at our destination. Or something...

Week 116

~2 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
I’ve been meaning to jump on Matt Webb’s Week Notes bandwagon for a few months now. I’ve even written a couple when off-line but then forgotten them...

Processing Greenbelt 2009

over 2 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
We did, in fact, make a newspaper. The hour or so after my last post were more than a little stressful, but the results (a few typos and a printing hiccup...

We’re making a newspaper for Greenbelt

over 2 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
We hadn’t expected to get to do this. Arriving on site we didn’t know we’d have funding, but the call came in late on Thursday and the planning began...

Greenbelt has an iPhone app

over 2 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
I’ve been watching the recent furore over Apple’s iPhone app review process with some concern. Partly, of course, I want the process to be clear, to...

Cucumber, wordpress and database_cleaner

over 2 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
I’m up to my usual using-ruby-tools-to-test-other-environments tricks, using cucumber and my wordpress activerecord classes to do acceptance testing against...

Talking to Wordpress with ActiveRecord

over 2 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
As mentioned in yesterday’s announcement I’m pulling some content across from this blog (running on wordpress) into the new Ket Lai site (a merb app...

Launching Ket Lai

over 2 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
For a while now I’ve been transitioning away from using the name jystewart.net for my web development work in favour of Ket Lai. The shift is partly born...