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Tony Bowden's ramblings
Goodbye _why _why the lucky stiff has vanished. He was one of Ruby’s most curious characters, always treading carefully that thin line between the eccentric and the surreal. His “Poignant Guide to Ruby” was one of the best books about programming I’ve ever read, and certainly the only to have an accompanying soundtrack album. But now he’s [...] Get Excited and Make Stuff Last weekend I braved a visit to the UK for Social Innovation Camp Scotland. My remit had been to be a roving expert, flitting from team to team, but I was so impressed by the first team I started working with that I ended up staying with them the whole weekend ? right through to [...] What is a spreadsheet-wiki? While I’m on the subject of products I really want to see, I would be remiss of me not to mention the spreadsheet-wiki. This one should already exist by now, and I hold myself largely responsible for it not ? after all, I spent almost a year working with Dan Bricklin and Socialtext trying to [...] Track Every Penny Personal finance software universally sucks. I have two theories for why this is: Firstly, there actually is no personal finance software. It’s all just dumbed down versions of corporate accounting software. No matter how it’s dressed up to be ‘user friendly’, at the heart of it all is the core underlying assumption that you want to [...] Where can I fly to this month? All my playing with end-of-year travel plans has given me itchy feet. I’d like to go somewhere interesting for a few days sometime soon, but I don’t really care so much where. This is something the internets are meant to help with, but though the US is well served with any number of useful quirky [...] More bmi Hacking Star Alliance claim to be ‘committed to delivering to you the latest flight schedules from the Star Alliance members on multiple platforms Anytime, Anywhere.”‘ (emphasis mine). What’s more they go on to explain that that means that it will be ‘Automatically updated on your platform of choice.’ That is unless your ‘platform of choice’ is anything [...] bmi Hacking I’ve been a bmi Diamond Club holder for many years. Unlike most Frequent Flier programs, airmiles you earn in this scheme never expire, so I’ve built up quite a few of them. However, it’s looking increasingly likely that bmi won’t actually be around for much longer ? at least not in its current form. The [...] Splitting a Wordpress blog in two This blog had its seventh birthday recently. I know there are many amongst you who have been blogging since before the term was even coined, and who make more posts in a month than I’ve made in seven years, but still. Anyway, back in the early days of blogging, a significant percentage of blog posts weren’t [...] Comparative Government Matt Wardman, asking what a “bicycling Parliament” would look like, compares the salary and benefits packages for Norwegian MPs to those in the UK. I’m perennially dismayed by how infrequently this sort of comparison takes place, particularly in Britain. It’s as if there’s a feeling of “We invented modern democracy and everyone should be studying [...] Gradual deployment of schema changes Timothy Fritz has a very interesting blog post on Continuous Deployment at IMVU (subtitled “Doing the impossible fifty times a day”), detailing how all committed code gets automagically pushed to their cluster of servers assuming it passes all tests. One very nice aspect of it is that the change is first put live on only [...]
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