Archive for the ‘Notes’ Category

New York, New York

Monday, November 12th, 2007

I’ve been living in Melbourne for 7 years now, and I have decidely itchy feet.

I moved to Melbourne for work just after the dot-com crash of 2000 and it was always meant to be a temporary stop on my way to New York, which I visited and fell in love with.

I think it’s time to get that dream moving again.

I am happy to work remotely to get a foot in the door, if that suits. Happy to sign up for a short-term contract if it gets me to your fair city.

So, if you’re in New York and need a developer with lots of experience, expert skills in Java, PHP and Ruby, and a penchant for user experience, drop me a line.

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Note on equity

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Just for the record. I’m not saying never, I’m just saying “think carefully and choose wisely”.

There are a lot of projects, and not so much time.

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Note to self: server date and Amazon S3

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Just lost an hour of my life trying to work out why the test server received 403 errors when attempting to store an image using Amazon S3.

The server date was a day out and S3 uses the date as part of its authentication scheme.

Note to self: check server date when seeing inexplicable errors in Amazon S3.

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Note to self

Friday, July 6th, 2007

A couple of things that have stumped me today.

A syntax error in database.yml caused the TextMate model generator to die silently. In case of doubt, check the config.

After installing rFacebook on Dreamhost, the application would not pick up the gem without unpacking it and requiring the explicit path in production.rb:

require "#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rfacebook-0.6.2/
lib/facebook_rails_controller_extensions"

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