My old recursive-design.com site has served me well for a couple of years of contracting and consulting, but having jumped headfirst into a startup, my focus is now on reducing my workload rather than increasing it :) ...
The last year has been a bit of a whirlwind, and saw Emi and I leave Tokyo, travel Asia, Russia and Europe for a couple of months, spend some time back in Australia catching up with family, and eventually take up an offer we couldn’t refuse to co-found a startup in Christchurch, New Zealand. ...
I’ve been flat out with a couple of contracting projects recently - apologies for the four-month blogging hiatus! One of these projects (albeit a quickie) was a weekend spent making a rails site for a couple of New Zealand organizations to help the victims of the Japanese quakes and tsunami relocate themselves and/or their children to New Zealand temporarily. ...
A couple of weeks ago someone commented on the SimpleColor plugin with a nice suggestion - adding the selected color as text inside the color selection button. I finally got around to implementing this last night, and added a couple of extra options to support this : ...
I was playing around on the weekend screen-scraping and analyzing word-frequencies for various sites (don’t ask), and was getting some slow responses (and accidentally got my IP blocked from one site when I hit them a few too many times). Eventually I hit upon the idea of hitting Google Cache for each URL (the pages I was scraping had sequential ?id=xxx URLs so it was easy to automate), with the aim of speeding things up a bit and taking some load off the target sites. With this in mind, I spent a few hours Saturday and Sunday developing fromthecache.com - it’s built on rails, and designed to provide transparent access to the Google cache, while fetching the original page as a fallback if necessary. ...
2013-03-28 Update : This project is very dated, and I don’t recommend it’s use. It’s now hosted on GitHub. I’m happy to announce the release of Rails Kitchen Sink a rails-project-starter, which I’ll be building all future Rails apps off of. ...
2013-03-28 Update : All projects are now hosted on GitHub I’m pleased to announce my new projects section, where I’ll be consolidating the various open-source projects I’ve released. Until now these projects have usually only been released via blog posts, but from now on each project will have a dedicated project page, with git repository information, issue tracking, and a link to a downloadable zip bundle of the latest release. ...
All of the content from recurser.com (blog posts, static pages, code repositories, git/svn etc) has been migrated over to the main “recursive-design.com”:/ site. If you’re reading this from the old recurser.com RSS feed, please update the feed address - sorry for the inconvenience! You can find the new feed at recursive-design.com/feed/ . The old feed will continue for a few weeks, but will eventually be turned off. I’m planning on posting a lot more regularly from now on, so if you aren’t a subscriber yet now would be a great time to start !...
Today I’m very happy to announce the launch of my new site Previously my open-source code, company information and blog posts had been spread over several different sites. All this various content will be consolidated into a single site here over the next couple of months, which will hopefully allow me to focus more on doing what I love - building beautiful apps, and hacking on open-source code. I’m also hoping to set a regular blogging schedule, so stay tuned for more posts and announcements!...
