January 2012
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2011: My Year in Review
Another year has gone by and another obligatory year in review post is due. 2011 was a
year full of change for me. I changed jobs twice, spent half the year coding in a new language, moved interstate, and switched my primary operating system.
Ruby
After working at Citrus for almost nine years, I was well overdue for a change of scenery, so when I was approached by Impact Data to come and work...
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Willing myself through the final sprint of
Achievement unlocked: deadlock the queue.
“A simple scripting language called steve” http://t.co/wnZDRG6u
MBP sure feels like a tank after 10 days straight of MBA.
Heroku Protip: don’t expect to cache long-running calls behind Varnish. They’ve a ton of servers and they’re all oblivious to each other.
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And last but not least, a quick follow-up post on releasing my hg-github Mercurial extension: http://t.co/bHX9xydV
Went totally overboard with CSS3 on the homepage for that one. Tons of fun :-)
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Another holiday project of mine, One True Repo - combined @github and @bitbucket API built with @sinatra http://t.co/FkfkM2Jk
The last in my series of backdated blog posts, Open Source for You: http://t.co/iqgj5tlP
December 2011
79 posts
That day of the year when you get spammed with happy birthday emails by all the sites you didn’t want to give your date of birth to.
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Totally forgot the hell how to publish a Ruby gem, just fudged my way through it like last time.
Announcing hg-github
The two front-runners in source code management these days are undoubtedly Git and Mercurial. Distributed version control has clearly proven itself as the superior model over older centralised systems like SVN, particularly in the context of open source development, where the ability to fork repositories and push and pull branches between them facilitates a much more efficient and streamlined...
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Released my first Mercurial extension, hg-github which automates all the setup for working with hg on @github: http://t.co/GPb4lio4
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Tons of Ruby and Python, good deal of Sass and JavaScript, and a bit of Erlang
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Surprised that this is invalid Python: `from module import *, name as othername`
Nice side effect of using Jekyll via Github: geeks who don’t do RSS (personally I can’t live without it) can just follow the Github project.
Xmas, only time I’m free enough to realize the full interruption chain of: blog sprint -> new project -> another new project -> OSS support
An conversation: http://t.co/Fihs2OqX
hg commit -m “lolthreads”
Friends don’t let friends do e-commerce with PHP: http://t.co/2cPu2rrK
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New (old) blog post: Django Model Field Injection: http://t.co/dLblzehG
Twitter favouriting policy: goons only.
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Hacking and blogging from a MacBook air on a deck chair by the pool with gourmet coffee…. but the sun isn’t out.
New blog now rendering cleanly on mobiles without any scaling, thanks to my first ever use of media queries: http://t.co/oSvxBrGB
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NonProTip: you can test media queries with a browser resize, but they’ll fail on mobile devices unless a viewport’s defined
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New (old) blog post: Rails Quick Start for Djangonauts: http://t.co/b5JImJcS
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It’s telling that each part of Django has a canonical docs section, but half of Rails is only scattered throughout guides.
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Can’t find a generic reference to link to for the n+1 query problem. Only found Django/Rails/Hibernate/NHibernate specific info. Help!
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Santa delivers a race condition fix: http://t.co/3ds81qkj
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Nailed down a race condition in django-social-auth: http://t.co/VV9jMiz1
Using a project of mine at work I haven’t used in ages, gunicorn-console: http://t.co/pYxrSP6Y - Tweet brought to you by Mr Phil S. Goodman
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Switched my blog to Jekyll/Bootstrap: http://t.co/X4rliFlH - I’ll add a handful of back-dated posts over xmas too.
Dear lord, thank thee for fish thou hast blessed upon me. Blessed is he who keepeth my rod steady, and free of caremad. http://t.co/MKLF99gm
Get certified! http://t.co/A1b0pORO
Dear lord, forgive us our trolling, as we forgive those who troll against us. http://t.co/MKLF99gm
Look, I think I’m qualified to speak on “big data” ok. I’ve put together dozens of infographics in my time. What have you done?
Deploying is the new compiling http://t.co/wkOA75B6
Can’t believe I went this long without using my phone as a Sony™ Walkman™
Want your open source contributions merged? This post absolutely nails it: http://t.co/Le7Sr10N
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Awesome - the new Coopers Store (yes the beer) is powered by Mezzanine and Cartridge! http://t.co/7IrXJ2J5
These exploits affect the one true software stack I’ve dedicated my entire career to, therefore, they are childish.
If the comic stylings of @Rob_McColl can translate into 140 char strings, I’ll be a happy dude.
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Battery life has gone to hell.
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Ok the main new feature of ICS: hella fast.
Click to show obfuscated phone number (that’s publicly available) -> JS error. More like True LOLcal amirite?
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New 3G transfer indicator is almost invisible.
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Widgets direct to settings are ace. Toggling tethering no longer requires a zillion key presses. There goes my first app idea.
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Circular unlocking is a total failure over the old single axis unlock.
Phone upgraded to ICS. Changes are mostly aesthetic which is a big meh.