All small business owners are strapped for time. Each of us have only has 24 hours in the day but we somehow have to get 28 hours of work done every day. One problem I have, is just keeping up on all the information available. Even my simple RSS feeds are overwhelming me. I have [...]
Archive | February, 2008
Interesting Links #6
Alan Weiss says if by improving only 1% every day, in 70 days you are twice as good. Who can’t do 1% each day? With the idea of small improvements, these links are all ways you can improve your business that little bit every day: 25 Freelance Tips for Maximizing Your Income 7 Things You [...]
Interesting Links #5
How Much is Your Time Worth? – Great post that really hits what I’ve been saying about pricing services. PSA – backups – Jamie Zawinski has a great solution for backups. If you are running a business without backups you are just asking to have your business closed any day now. Javascript Design Patterns – [...]
Redmine Timesheet plugin – v0.0.2
I’ve just released version 0.0.2 of my Timesheet plugin for Redmine. Changes This release was made possible from the feedback of the community. Some of the changes include: Timelogs can now be filtered by user account (#477) Multiple projects can be selected (#484) Subtotals are shown for each project (#485) Language translations to Russian and [...]
Interesting Links #4
I’ve been scrambling this past week trying to close out a few projects before I start on some new ones. Here are a few links that came across my wanderings: Generating the code for an older version of Rails – A customer asked me how to generate a stock Rails application from an older release. [...]
Fail Loudly with osd_cat and autotest
A key to Test Driven Development is frequently run tests. These tests are used to judge the health of a project. Like in a hospital, when things deteriorate we have to be alerted right away. Ruby developers use autotest to monitor and run their test suite in the background. One problem with autotest is that [...]
Interesting Links #3
I upgraded a few Rails applications to 2.0 and found the following links helpful. In under an hour I was able to upgrade 2 applications from Rails 1.2 to 2.0. Rails 2.0: taking the plunge Pastie script to test for 2.0 Compatibility Upgrade to Rails 2.0 Upgrading to Rails 2.0. A Recipe