Tag: development

Learn to Program (using Ruby)

  • November 1, 2009 at 8:00 am

  • I'm trying to get my head around Ruby (and Rails, and HAML) and this is proving a good start. Obviously you need Ruby installed first (which wasn't all that straightforward, not in Windows at any rate), but once you've done that it's quite enjoyable.
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Web Design Dashboard

  • September 30, 2009 at 12:00 pm

  • A set of very handy lists of online web development tools, neatly and clearly laid out. Covers inspiration and design as well as markup, coding and marketing.
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Mapping my local area reminded me: what’s going on with the old BBC Pebble Mill site?

  • June 5, 2009 at 1:18 am

  • For a little while I’ve been aware of a blog about my postcode area of B29, but it had never dawned on me to offer to contribute. So today I offered my services, and jumped in by plotting B29 onto a Google map. And in so doing I remembered the void that used to be [...]

Buying friends’ time: when should we do it?

  • March 5, 2009 at 6:30 pm

  • For a long time I had no way of knowing who to ask specific technical questions of, and now – thanks to the power of social media – I suddenly know loads of people on whose expertise I can call. The trouble is, when does the relationship become professional and require a financial commitment?
    This morning [...]

DIYcity: reinventing your city by building web apps

  • January 16, 2009 at 1:06 pm

  • “Twitter bots, aggregators, social software, mobile apps – we use these things more and more in our daily routines to make our lives better. But can we also use them to remake our cities altogether? How can these technologies be applied to transform urban spaces, changing them from the centralized, hard-coded things they are today [...]

Bookmarks for 8 January 2009 through 15 January 2009

  • January 16, 2009 at 4:00 am

  • These are my links for 8 January 2009 through 15 January 2009:

    Us Now: A film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet – "Us Now is a documentary film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the Internet.
    Us Now tells the stories of online networks that are challenging the [...]

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