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No coding required? | Red56 blog
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Occasional reflections on programming. Laquo; Reflections on how an iterative attitude can reduce costs. Busy weekend ». 18 October 2008 (Saturday). Reading a thread on the mysociety list. Which discusses a posting showing a mashup technique. 8220;with no coding required” and a subsequent critique. After all, doesn’t the technique just guarantee an easier point of entry to the practice of screen-scraping (which mysociety’s sites themselves rely on)? Shows that, while no specific programming language is b...
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writing gap, or, alt-control-delete | Red56 blog
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Occasional reflections on programming. Laquo; paying attention to attention. URIs, URLs, Names, Locators and Links ». Writing gap, or, alt-control-delete. 1 February 2008 (Friday). Hit ‘alt-control-delete’ to restart this blog, or at least show the running processes. (Actually though, I’m now on a mac, so mostly shouldn’t need to refer to those keys anymore). I keep re-reading Joel Spolsky. Whose last name is not, I discover, “on Software. Goes so far as to say:. Although some may beg to differ. Inevitab...
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Occasional reflections on programming. Paying attention to attention. 30 August 2006 (Wednesday). Tried out a recent version of Touchstone. Read the rest of this entry ». 9 August 2006 (Wednesday). A comment from a colleague on the importance of the experience programmers bring when refactoring to good design. Something that doesn’t get mentioned about refactoring to a ‘good design’ is that there is a lot of experience brought to bear about what is good. Read the rest of this entry ». 8216;s proposal of ...
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Understanding BDD motivations better | Red56 blog
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Occasional reflections on programming. Laquo; Todos / Task-tracking: Generic API. Workflow for Chef with Vagrant ». Understanding BDD motivations better. 21 October 2009 (Wednesday). However, reading at the interesting pairwithus:. Since then a number of frameworks have risen up using that structure. Many of these can be written in plain text. Despite this, there are still many teams using FitNesse and the new table parsing Test System called SLIM. Unfortunately, the way FitNesse is used is, too often, a...
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Workflow for Chef with Vagrant | Red56 blog
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Occasional reflections on programming. Laquo; Understanding BDD motivations better. Workflow for Chef with Vagrant. 13 March 2011 (Sunday). UPDATE (20/11/2011): The hacks here are superseded by updates in chef-solo and vagrant. Check out Ches Martin’s useful comment below. I have now got a relatively decent workflow for configuring both a vagrant. Instance and a server using chef. I’m using a vagrant instance configured (initially) to use chef-solo. Here are the hacks I use:. I don’t like writing j...
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Tim Diggins: web programmer, application designer, technology consultant. Loading posts from tumblr. Loading posts from delicious. Loading tweets from twitter. With fifteen years experience of web and application programming and leading web and software projects, using Ruby-on-Rails, Python, Java, jQuery. I improve creative and collaborative processes. In technology development, with consultancy, coaching, and the selection of appropriate tools. Resume / Curriculum Vitae.
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Reflections on how an iterative attitude can reduce costs | Red56 blog
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Occasional reflections on programming. Laquo; Write it on an index card. Reflections on how an iterative attitude can reduce costs. 5 September 2008 (Friday). As part of the process for trying to get Clever Plugs. Onto the BBC commissioning roster for on-air graphics, we had to reflect on how we would help the BBC reduce costs. So I wrote the following about why I thought our approach – iterative, tendency agile (see e2x’s article on sustainable software. For an interesting differentiation here). Usually...
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Write it on an index card | Red56 blog
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Occasional reflections on programming. Laquo; URIs, URLs, Names, Locators and Links. Reflections on how an iterative attitude can reduce costs ». Write it on an index card. 27 March 2008 (Thursday). I tried the ‘ Hipster PDA. 8216; index-cards-as-organizer thing – at different times in my life (yes, even before they blogged about it), but only ever for a while. It’s fun while it lasts (till my backing cardboard gets too bent and all my rubber bands snap ). I’ve tried doing CRC. This is a rather exciting*...
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URIs, URLs, Names, Locators and Links | Red56 blog
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Occasional reflections on programming. Laquo; writing gap, or, alt-control-delete. Write it on an index card ». URIs, URLs, Names, Locators and Links. 28 February 2008 (Thursday). I was about to write a quick post on why I’m fussy about what URLs look like (see below Locator Name = Good), and thought there was an important distinction between URI s/. The basic story is, that a URI. If something is only a name it is ocassionally called a URN (N for name). However URL and URN are now viewed as being un...
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