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.

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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.

http://what-when-where.info/ is a small companion site to http://whenshouldwe.com that Erin, Mathew, Rory and I built over the weekend of RailsRumble. I’m not sure how long it will be around, we got some hosting along with the competition.

WWW will let you create a simple and standardised event page for any event you need to invite people too. Oh, and you don’t need to create a damn account to use the service, unlike every other sodding website on the planet. It’s just useful for everyone that has a net connection and an event to get people to.

So, fun things about the competition: writing code, eating pizza and drinking tea with smart people. Also, using GitHub was a worthwhile exercise. Working with Datejs was a pleasure. Working with Google Maps and Local Search API was neat too and I really like the realtime updates of the map.

Less fun things: our failure to come up with a plan for what to build until most of the way through Saturday morning, our ability to spend most of Saturday afternoon doubting our choice.

In the spirit of a retrospective I shouldn’t criticise unless I can make a suggestion as to what to do differently next time.

We had a couple of meet ups prior to the weekend to try to decide what to build, they didn’t produce a result.

Got to treat those meetings like they’re happening on the Saturday morning and that a decision must be made by the end. A spoken statement that this is the idea, that everybody is onboard and that the weekend is all about execution would also have helped.

I reckon that keeping a big list of ideas somewhere is a pretty good idea. Rory and I wrote up a list a while back but only fragments of it seem to exist online. Time to create add to that Google Document for projects like this that come up in the future.