James Wilding Freelance Rails, Ruby, and iPhone Web App Developer

Archive for January 2010

Friday Jazz — Chet Baker

Summertime by Chet Baker and co. Apologies for the corny video, but the music is beautiful.

Unbelievably, this track was recorded just a few days after the band got together. And a few days before that, one of Baker’s close friends had died of a drugs overdose. Happy days.

Ruby on the iPad

Can you run Ruby on an iPad? Is the Pope a protestant?

Thoughts on the iPad

The mad ravings of an Apple fan.

Superhash: Easier Access to Ruby Hashes

superhash = {:access => 'easy', :super => true}

superhash.super? # => true

A Question for PayPal

In which I wonder if PayPal is making money where it shouldn’t be.

Sunday Jazz

“Summertime” by The Bill Evans Trio, 1965

Housekeeping at JamesWilding.net

Some paintwork, some cleaning, some PHP coding.

Lessons Learnt With Rails

Things I’ve learnt from working on a massive Rails application that needed tidying. Routes, simplicity, Ruby, REST — all sorts of Rails goodness.

On Passwords and Security

Why do ordinary users care so little about passwords, and what can developers do about it?

Three Great Ways To Improve Your Blogging

In which I trash the standard, boring “N Ways To Do Something” post title.

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