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While working at 3Months as a developer, I am also completing a Bachelor of Business Information Systems at Victoria University. One of the things that rolls around twice a year and always causes students headaches is the signups system - it’s one of the bragging points of the School of Information Management at Victoria, as it was build as a project...
Tonight I’ve been playing round with Radiant - it looks really impressive as a content-management system, and I’ve been thinking about ways I can change it round to support vendors - that is, one person or organization offering Radiant as a service to multiple clients - basically, it would be one big Radiant application (to simplify administration and server maintenance),...
So I decided this evening to devote a couple of hours to giving back to Spree, after using the framework for a couple of work projects, and appreciating it for it’s flexibility and extensibility. I’ve developed an extension for Spree called Import Products. The source is based on a few bits of code that I have used for 2 projects...
Every now and then, you run into one of THOSE problems - inexplicable, and something it seems no one else has solved before you. This afternoon, I hit one of these. Basically, I had just installed RVM, Ruby_1.8.7 and Rails_2.3.8 - everything was working great - I could run a server just fine, and use the running site. Eventually though,...
Finding appropriate domain names is a chore. There are so many rubbish parking sites out there that just … shouldn’t be. I dare sayjoshmcarthur.me could be considered one of them, since I could easily offload this onto Tumblr, but I enjoy having the unlimited capabilities a hosted site allows. I think that domains should be treated in a similar way...
Fixing time problems is probably one of the most satisfying things to fix programmatically for me. It is one of those things where you may spend ages stabbing in the dark with different time zones, formats, etc etc. - but there it really is satisfying when you do get it right and what you see in your code is what...
As part of my research for my last-minute essay rewrite, I happened to pick up an article covering an interview with David_Heinemeier_Hansson, partner at 37signals.com and inventor of Ruby_on_Rails. Hansson had some very interesting ideas, including the concept of reducing working hours in favour of creative quality, and the value of constraints over capital: “Excellent decisions come out of constraints…You...
Just FYI… See 2 posts ago - I am modifying this theme to make it work a bit nicer. Part of this included wanting to change some images. I was trying to just link to the images in CSS, but I found a much nicer way of doing it. If you want to change your theme currently, you can often...
Do you like my revamped theme? I think it’s totally cool to have this type of timeline in a microblog like Tumblr - it makes things really easy to flip through… don’t you want to keep pressing the arrows? It’s this_theme, but I tweaked the CSS a bit and added some jQuery to bind left/right scrolling to the arrow keys...
Right team, listen up. See, I’m quite a lazy blogger - it’s just too much effort, and it never seems to be shiny enough (Just check out my old_blog out for proof. I’m going to make this easy for all of us - I’ll find cool stuff on the Internet, or even in the Real_World - and I’ll share it...