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Work with us

over 3 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
If the last post about our Javascript issues didn’t put you off, then you might be interested to know that we’re hiring. If you’re an experienced...

Usability testing (throws) rocks

over 3 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
Usability testing is wonderful. But wow, its humiliating. I’ve spent the last few weeks working on the Amazingtunes in page player. Amazingtunes is...

Announcing Announcements for Ruby

over 3 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
I’ve just pushed a just about usable (but horribly untested) port of Vassili Bykov’s very lovely Smalltalk Announcements framework onto github. Itâ...

git is the monads

over 3 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
When, in the course of learning about Haskell, I reached the point where I thought I understood what Monads were for, I wrote about it. In the comments...

Rails tip: Dealing with out of sync migrations

almost 4 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
Sometimes, for one embarrassing reason or another (usually involving chaotic branch merges…) a database migration can get leapfrogged. When this happens...

A quick Javascript formatting tip

almost 4 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
IE’s a pain. The particular pain I want to write about is its pickiness about Javascript object literals. Consider the following Javascript object: ...

Ads are gone

almost 4 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
Back when I was writing the occasional “How do you find me?” article, I would get some weird ads showing up. On one occasion, I commented that the searcher...

Fat is an economic issue

almost 4 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
Terry Pratchett once observed that a character of his was anorexic because every time they looked in a mirror, they saw a fat person. By that measure, I...

Reinventing the wheel for fun and profit

almost 4 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
When they tell you to stop because you’re reinventing the wheel, ignore them and carry on building a better mousetrap....

Code is data, and it always has been

almost 4 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
I’m just back from the first Scotland on Rails conference, and a jolly fine conference it was too. Much kudos is due to Alan, Graeme, Abdel and Paul....