It seems like more than just a month since I wrote about Failcount. I very quickly realised that it had some serious flaws and suspended new sign-ups. Since then, I’ve rewritten it from scratch – creating an entirely new git repo and copying across hardly anything from the original version. In some ways, this new [...]
It’s been three week since I wrote an application in a day, and I’ve been chipping away at it since to get it to a properly usable state for many people. I think I’ve spent around one full day’s worth of work on this, spread out into little chunks while doing other things. I carried [...]
This week I wrote a simple, but fully functional, Rails application in my spare time of one day. This included time spent writing tests and deploying it using Phusion Passenger and Capistrano. The application itself is an, uhh, internal one for use by people at my day job. I call it ‘failcount’, and it tracks [...]
A couple of progress updates on things I’ve written about previously. First up, my ‘MacBook Mini’ is coming along excellently. I’ve been using it at work and to write some short stories, the battery life is brilliant and the keyboard is nearly as good as the one I use with my iMac. I’ve got speaker/headphone [...]
After hacking together enough of a project management system that it could manage its own further development, I decided to try deploying it to my personal project VM before I went to bed. I had previously installed Phusion Passenger on my personal projects VM, so I figured this would be a five minute job. It [...]
Today is the first day for my new plan of not watching TV at 8pm, and here I am watching TV while I wait for my food to cook. I’m happy with that, though, since the project management system is looking good and I want to take some time to write up my first experiences [...]
I was initially going to ask this question on my twitter account, but it’s a bit longer than I can get into 140 characters. Unrelated to my project management software, I’ve been wondering about securely storing files in systems like Amazon’s S3. It seems like a great way to store files that you want to [...]
The New Year’s Resolution I kept for the longest time, one I made in High School and didn’t break until 2006, was to not make any New Year’s Resolutions. I didn’t keep the one I made in 2006, and I don’t think I’ve ever kept any of the ones I made when I was younger [...]
I have a dirty little secret. Admitting it in public could subject me to ridicule and potentially even hurt my future career prospects – but I’m going to do it anyway. I’m really apathetic and lazy. Okay, for some people who know me that’s not a secret – I do, after all, own the ‘apathy.org.uk’ [...]
Prior to my current day job I spent just over a year working at one of Nokia’s outsourced call centres, first doing general support (how to use the phone and explaining that only the network can get it unlocked) and then technical support (mostly supporting Nokia PC sync software, and some other horrors). I’m interested [...]
