In order for someone to give The Project (Min Packning) a try it was required to register an account and provide a valid e-mail address. This is an obstacle, so I wanted to add a way for people to try the service without registering. It was actually very easy. I created a demo user account,… Continue reading Making a demo login with restful_authentication
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Android SDK m5-rc14 now available
Android SDK m5-rc14 now available. I might have planned to give it a try if I didn’t have updates to The Project (MinPackning.se) to do, two energy drinks to add to Taurin.se and a Softhouse Scrum Master Kit to unbox… 🙂
First release of The Project
I released the first incarnation of The Project yesterday; please visit MinPackning.se! Unfortunately it’s not so useful if you can’t read Swedish.
MidaSync
Today I reinstated a proper web site on the domain for my project MidaSync. Quoting from the single page: MidaSync is a project, or collection or projects, for seamless connection between Microsoft Windows Mobile devices and Open Source operating systems. Further development of MidaSync is currently postponed indefinitely. I hope to revive it some day,… Continue reading MidaSync
Web design and SimpleSidebar
I found a suitable initial web design for The Project at Open Source Web Design. That’s a really great site! Now I’m learning about layouts in Ruby on Rails. As suggested in the Midnight Oil blog (Beds are burning?) article SimpleSidebar – If you have sidebars, you need this plugin I now use SimpleSidebar in… Continue reading Web design and SimpleSidebar
Project prioritization – Inspect and Adapt!
I try to avoid telling myself that I don’t have time for this or that. The truth is that it comes down to how I prioritize those things. I naturally try to put family and work first, but I also make room for my own projects and ideas. Some projects only take a few hours,… Continue reading Project prioritization – Inspect and Adapt!
Creating an Atom feed from a web page
Most of my time at the computer yesterday was spent working on an unofficial syndication of the broadcast archive for the Swedish radio show P3 Rytm. It’s actually quite simple… 🙂 Use curl to download the web page broadcast archive for the show Use iconv to convert the page to UTF-8 Use tidy to convert… Continue reading Creating an Atom feed from a web page
Good domain names are hard to find
As the The Project is a web site, I had to look around quite a while for suitable domain names. Many of my desired names were already taken, but IIRC none of them was actually used for something. Some are probably a case of domain name speculation, some may be registered by people with a… Continue reading Good domain names are hard to find
The humble beginnings of The Project
Yesterday and today I took some time to work on The Project. (Tomorrow I’m back at work, so much for a holiday project.) I tossed aside requirements on a strictly Swedish interface, so the controller names are in English and I don’t use Ola Bini‘s Swedish Rails yet. Honestly I haven’t done any TDD/BDD yet… Continue reading The humble beginnings of The Project
I want to read “Peopleware” again
Bruce Eckel recommends Peopleware — Productive Projects and Teams (by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister) in his recent weblog entry The Mythical 5%. When I ordered a bunch of book recently I was thinking of including both The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick Brooks and Peopleware, but I didn’t. It is probably a good idea to… Continue reading I want to read “Peopleware” again