January 2012
1 post
Supercharge your Sinatra app with...
Over a year ago, I wrote about SassRoku, a little template I had whipped up for hosting simple sites on Heroku.
Well, now I’ve started using Adam Bair’s Backbone-Bootstrap, which has just been updated to include my fork that uses Compass.
Backbone.js
HAML + Sass + Compass(new!)
CoffeeScript, jQuery, Underscore.js
Sprockets, Asset Packaging
Heroku!
Go on then :)
September 2011
1 post
Sleep less for better productivity
One thing you’ll hear time and time again in the productivity world, is the important of getting enough sleep.
I happen to completely agree, and for most of my working life I made sure that I got my 8 hours, no matter what. Yea, the odd late night sneaks in, but it should never become a regular thing.
Recently, things have changed.
I now sleep less each day, and my productivity and...
August 2011
1 post
Why I'm glad that someone stole my idea.
A couple of months ago we launched an MVP for Sisper - a way to easily send encrypted messages just using a browser.
It started off as a way for me to mess about with encryption (I studied some at Uni and loved it), and it turned into an actual product that could be very useful to some people.
A couple of LeanMinded projects then took over, and Sisper sat at the back of mind as feedback...
October 2010
3 posts
Static sites, Ruby & Heroku
SassRoku - A Sinatra template.
Host ‘static’ sites, using Haml + Sass, for free on Heroku.
When making ‘static’ sites, I always miss the nice things like Sass, Layouts & Helpers that I get to use on a normal ruby project.
So, I put together a little Sinatra application that lets me do all that and serve it (free of charge) from Heroku.
It’s basic, and...
TextMate, Regex & America
Supercharge TextMate’s Find & Replace using Regular Expressions.
I was recently working on a website when my american client reminded me that he prefers to write his dates backwards. As you know:
24-08-2010 (Day, Month, Year)
is the sensible way to format a date while:
08-24-2010 (Month, Day, Year)
is the standard in the US.
Find & Replace using Regular Expressions
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