My first remote gig was in 2005 – and since 2007, apart from some brief dalliances with on-site work, I’ve been fully remote. This suits my (highly) introverted personality. I find working in groups exhausting – I’d much rather get
How I GTD
David Allen’s 2002 book ‘Getting Things Done‘ (GTD) certainly struck a chord with programmer types. Unfortunately the classic GTD system espoused by Allen seems to fall apart over time. The biggest culprit for me was an ever growing ‘Someday /
Using the ‘after_party’ gem with Capistrano 3
One of my long-term client projects involves frequent data migrations (as opposed to the classical schema migrations one typically runs). Up until recently I’ve been creating standalone rake tasks to perform the data migrations and executing them manually when deploying
My Daily Routine as a Remote Freelance Developer
Since 2007 I’ve been living my personal Holy Grail – that of a freelance developer working remotely from home. This, like most worthwhile things in life, has taken a large dollop of discipline, reliable broadband and at least one pair of
git svn clone/fetch yet no files? This might help…
I’ve just spent some time wondering why a “git svn clone <repo>” followed by a “git svn fetch” was producing no files in the target folder. This was puzzling, as the Subversion repository was upto version 423, and poking through
XCode Project Template bug on Snow Leopard
After a gap of almost six years I’ve been grabbed by the sudden urge to start doing some Cocoa development again. Rather than get my old battered copy of Hillegass’ seminal Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X out of some