January 2012
10 posts
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.