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Monthly Archives April 2009

A quick technopagan tool

Ages ago I registered urbanpaganism.info, and set up a basic wiki for a community I’d set up for people who practice Paganism in urban environments and were fed up the usual hippy clap-trap advice like ‘grow plants in a window box’ and ‘visit the countryside’ when it came to experiencing Paganism in the city. It [...]

Posted 25 April 2009 † John § Ruby § Software § Techniques § Technology § Technopaganism ‡ Comments (0) °

Revisiting Changes

It’s been nearly five months since I confessed my dirty little secret and I thought it might be worth looking back to see how things worked out. The first thing to note is that while I did finish my project management system, I never ever use it. I think that Craig was right – judging [...]

Posted 17 April 2009 † John § Mind Tricks § Psychology § Technology ‡ Comments (0) °

New Approach

For me, the problem with using test-driven or behaviour-driven development while working on my own projects is that these projects are largely learning exercises. I’m not working for a client, and I don’t have a fixed specification to work to. If I think something is too hard for me to do right now, I can [...]

Posted 15 April 2009 † John § Mind Tricks § Psychology § Rails § Software § Technology ‡ Comments (2) °

Rewriting Failcount.com

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 [...]

Posted 10 April 2009 † John § Rails § Social § Software § Technology ‡ Comments (0) °