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Monthly Archives February 2009

On a scale of 1 to 10…

Each evening I post to Twitter ‘On a scale of 1 to 10, today has been X productive and Y% fail’. It’s a simple daily ritual which allows me to quantify both how much I’ve got done and how frustrating it was doing it. At some point I plan to write a script to log [...]

Posted 16 February 2009 † John § Mind Tricks § Psychology § Social ‡ Comments (0) °

Application In A Day

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 [...]

Posted 13 February 2009 † John § Rails § Software ‡ Comments (1) °

Updates

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 [...]

Posted 04 February 2009 † John § Hackintosh § Hardware § Mind Tricks § Mobile § Psychology § Rails § Social § Software § Technology ‡ Comments (3) °