I love London on a sunny day.

Yesterday I took a stroll through town to meet Ben for lunch.

My friend Jules is a build monkey par excellence and runs a highly targeted blog dealing with build and continuous integration news and issues.

He publishes a job listing for build/deploy people on that blog and maintains an RSS feed so build/deploy types can subscribe.

If you’re looking for a build master/CI wrangler then check out his offer.

Right now it’s a great price: FREE.

http://www.build-doctor.com/jobs

http://www.build-doctor.com/2008/11/24/london-build-and-deploy-job-rss-feed

A winter afternoon.

Trying to become a better photographer.

Steps:

10 take photos
20 look at other people's photos
30 goto 10

This time I’ve got the display on the table and my Windows PC running too… so pretty much fully geeked-out.

I took a photo of the space M and I work in–we call it home.

If you click through on the image it is all annotated over at Flickr–you can see the notes when you mouse over the image.

Here’s my first Flash app. Warning, programmer performing various acts of violence to your visual cortex.

JetBrains has announced an IDE for Rails. I used IDEA for Java development and thoroughly loved it… on Windows and Linux anyway… never did quite get the key mapping sorted to be Mac friendly.

Anyway, this is very good news generally because it will provide some seriously high quality competition for TextMate which has been sitting dormant and coasting on its amazing Bundles for a long time now.

Link

I’ve started using /etc/hosts to send websites that I check reflexively—and then get sucked into—over to a todo list on my localhost web server.

So, for example, if I go to guardian.co.uk I wind up at a page that asks me to please do something constructive instead.

My initial inclination was to use OSX Parental Controls to accomplish this but you can’t be both an Admin and a Parental Controllee at the same time… and I get to use vi this way instead of some lame GUI.

I am assured by trustworthy parties that “Fun without the computer” is possible.

http://www.jamesmartinchef.co.uk

Splash screens, intros, flash and background muzak.