This post is part of my weekly tech learning series, where I take one hour each week to try out a piece of technology that I’d like to learn. Make sure to read to the end, where I have a screencast overview of the final application. This week I decided to learn a bit more …
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TED Talk | Clay Shirky: How the Internet will (one day) transform government
An interesting TED Talk about how open source and the git model of working can help society.
My writing process
I’ve been writing a lot more recently. Between theadmin.org, Chirk HR, the Little Stream Software newsletter, and Chirk HR’s newsletter I’m probably close to writing a few thousand words per week. That’s not a lot for a writer but for a freelance developer and business builder, that feels like a lot. One thing that has …
Learning pjax – Tutorial and Screencast
This post is part of my weekly tech learning series, where I take one hour each week to try out a piece of technology that I’d like to learn. This week I’m back to JavaScript, trying out the pjax library from Chris Wanstrath. pjax 1.0.0 was just released a few days ago and I’ve been …
Learning EventMachine
This post is part of my weekly tech learning series, where I take one hour each week to try out a piece of technology that I’d like to learn. This week I decided to try out EventMachine: a fast, simple event-processing library for Ruby. I have to say, I was pretty impressed. Both by its …