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"this shit just got real, didn't it." Hilarious. - James Adam

A patch fixing the issues loading bundles with Ruby 1.8.6 and Snow Leopard - James Adam

Describes the issue I'm seeing with loading RMagick on Snow Leopard with Ruby 1.8.6, and the GDB backtrace matches too. However, the problem seems to still exist in 1.8.6-287 - James Adam

Very interesting post about the realities of interstellar travel. It ignores all the colonisation we could do locally, however... - James Adam

A case study about my uncle's cost saving for Lothian council. It's just a shame it was all Microsoft based! Ah well, can't win 'em all :) - James Adam

My uncle and his team has saved Lothian council a shedload of cash, and reduced their carbon footprint too. - James Adam

"Adds a simple watermark to images that are hotlinked i.e. wrong referrer". - James Adam

Energised work seem to be impressively productive, and have very clear and strong processes surrounding the way they development. - James Adam

Application for (amongst other things) uploading files and placing the URL in your clipboard; has a Ruby extension API. - James Adam

"Some environment variables must be set before Ruby is started because the Ruby interpreter itself uses them. The RailsBench GC settings environment variables, which are now supported by Ruby Enterprise Edition, are examples of such environment variables. You can set these environment variables by writing a wrapper script. " - James Adam

Neat looking application for using the "pomodoro" technique. I might try this at some point, maybe with James Andrews. - James Adam

Photos of pubs in London; here's the W1H view. FWIW, the Duke of Wellington is really nice. - James Adam

"In mail.app, in the Account edit screen, you can enter multiple email addresses on the 'Email Address:' line. Separate each with a comma, and then save your changes. When you compose a new email from that account, you'll see a little pop-up for selecting which address you would like to use as the sender of the email. Very slick trick, and easier than creating an entirely new account. " - James Adam

John Holland's 80th birthday makes me reminiscent of my brief stint in academia. I am still drawn to it... maybe one day I'll go back. - James Adam

"Rails Engines also don’t allow you to package up migrations, assets, plugins, initializers, etc…" - were I to care much about 'defending' rails engines anymore, I might respond to this, but the kids don't care much about history, and I don't want to spoil the fun for upcoming 'plugin mechanism' developers. - James Adam

With a name like 'Warp Drive' how can it fail? ;-) - James Mead

We used this pretty effectively at Reevoo, and I'm sure I'll use it again. - James Adam

Must check this Ruby application server out - James Adam

This relates to something I've been thinking about recently too. "Pragmatism" is necessary, but it's a compromise that should be felt each and every time it's made. - James Adam

The new 'Service Battery' message I'm seeing after upgrading. Apparently my battery only holds charge for about 1.5hrs, and my other battery died because I didn't charge it often enough - seriously. - James Adam

Covers lots of 'advanced' javascript that I'm not familiar with - good stuff. - James Adam

"How many tests do you need to test this application thoroughly? At least 10,000. Maybe a million. One million." The author seems to implicitly suggest that coverage of every single code path is significant, and naturally this is easier to achieve with unit tests. I'm not sure I agree with his conclusion though. - James Adam

My post to the Apple support discussion board about display problems when waking from sleep under Snow Leopard. - James Adam

Interesting article about the need for a UX focus when running a software business - James Adam

A post touching on how Terralien operates, which has some similarities to Free Range - James Adam

Looks like a fairly comprehensive solution for playing iPlayer content - James Adam

It seems like it's now impossible for an application to create a document and guarantee (assuming no user intervention) that the document will always be opened with that application. I don't know if this is annoying or not. - James Adam

Might be useful as a basis for other services, as it uses ruby and applescript together - James Adam

I've always felt that one of the great strengths of Mac OS X was that things could either be glued together (via Applescript), or piped around (via Services), or triggered (via Folder Actions), but that not enough was made of any of these. - James Adam

Alternative to 1password - James Adam

Free alternative to XSlimmer? - James Adam