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Mar 14, 2012
My muse is not a horse and I am in no horse race and if indeed she was, still I would not harness her to this tumbrel — this bloody cart of severed heads and glittering prizes. My muse may spook! May bolt! May abandon me completely!Nick Cave, quoted in Letters of Note: My muse is not a horse
Mar 2, 2012
Had some fun playing with The Grix.
Jan 26, 2012
A users guide to the Trajectory redesign
Another one from the robots at Thoughtbot today. We’ve been using Trajectory to manage some of our projects over the last 6 months or so, and it has been a great experience. This new design makes it even better. I recommend it.
Jan 26, 2012
Inject that Rails Configuration Dependency!
Some valuable lessons about code dependencies and testing in Ruby. Reading this reminded me just how much I have to learn. Time to hit that RSpec book for real.
Jan 20, 2012
Schlep Blindness
If you build products, then you should read this.
Jan 20, 2012
I came across a great quote from Napoleon: “Mass at the point of attack”. Principally, Napoleon won numerous battles by throwing all his forces at what he considered the decisive points of battle. What is significant to note, is that he did this by stealing resources from other parts of the battle, and in doing so came close to losing a lot of the battles he won.Take risks and play to your strengths. I like this strategy. Huy describes it well in the context of sport.
Jan 20, 2012
Bridging the Gap Between Development and Design
Some thoughtful, practical advice on the Engine Yard blog. Certainly a gap that I’d like to do some more work to bridge.
Jan 18, 2012
The point of releasing code is to let people use it. Most people want to use it commercially, because that’s how the world works. Your code isn’t so special and wonderful that it couldn’t have been written by someone else. So, using the GPL is enforcing assholery on everyone because you think that someday, some other asshole might not make their code available in a time of dire social need. That’s crazy. It’s dealing on pure idealism and ignoring statistics and commercial reality.Matt Gemmell - Open Source Code
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Tim Riley is a web and Ruby on Rails developer based in Canberra, Australia.
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