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Week 127

almost 2 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
Once again I find myself writing these notes on a train. This time it’s to Exeter along with James Weiner to meet with a potential new client. I donâ...

Week 129

almost 2 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
So. No week notes again last week. It was a week of juggling numerous projects, trying to get the month’s job list under control before diving into the...

Weekend Links

almost 2 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
My web browser has been groaning under the weight of all the tabs that have mounted as I’ve not gotten round to one of these purges for a few weeks. So...

Week 131

almost 2 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
I’m never quite sure how to start these things. When (as this week) I’m catching up from having missed a week I’m inclined to say something about...

Faster Rails development with bundler and rvm

almost 2 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
If you’re anything like me, you’ve found the rails server and console taking longer and longer to launch lately. Even switching to Rails 3 for most...

Creatives, whether people or cities

almost 2 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
Adam Greenfield’s shared some thoughts in advance of his talk for the World Congress on Information Technology: People are creative; industries, not so...

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...

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...

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...

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...