Martin Wood

freelance web developer based in Cardiff, UK

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On Remote Working

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

Martin February 19, 2020February 26, 2020 Freelance, Professional, Remote Working No Comments Read more

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 /

Martin June 8, 2015 Business, Personal, Productivity No Comments Read more

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

Martin June 3, 2015June 3, 2015 Programming, Ruby No Comments Read more

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

Martin May 19, 2015October 30, 2015 Business, Freelance, Life, Personal No Comments Read more

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

Martin June 7, 2010October 30, 2015 Programming No Comments Read more

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

Martin November 17, 2009August 27, 2010 Ruby, Web No Comments Read more

Old App Traffic Spike

Many moons ago (well, late 2006) I wrote my first Rails application, a dinky little GTD app named ZenLists. Now, I haven’t given the app much though for the last eighteen months, and the shocking confession is I don’t even

Martin Wood February 9, 2009August 28, 2010 Programming, Ruby No Comments Read more

Ioncube for Rails?

Having just completed my first mISV product, I’m already starting to think about potential new projects. Despite Datafeed Studio being written in PHP, it is fair to say it is not my programming language of choice. Datafeed Studio is a

Martin Wood May 27, 2008 Business, mISV, Ruby 2 Comments Read more

A New Micro-ISV Is Born

Well, I’ve only gone and done it, folks. I’ve finally become a bona fide Micro-ISV (mISV). Today marks the launch of my first product, Datafeed Studio – a web application that allows affiliate marketeers to create price comparison sites, niche

Martin Wood May 26, 2008 Business, mISV, Personal 6 Comments Read more

Rails 2.0 application checker

Now that the first release candidate of Rails 2.0 has been announced, what better time to check if your existing Rails app might need some TLC before the upgrade? Enter r2check, a small tool which does some regular expression searches

Martin Wood October 1, 2007 Programming, Ruby No Comments Read more
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Full-time freelance web and mobile developer who loves building things, or making existing things better.

Involved in commercial application development since 1997 - freelance since 2007, mostly focused on Ruby on Rails (10+ years), Javascript (React, Angular, jQuery) and PHP/MySQL type stuff, after several years working with Java, Perl and C/C++.

I also dabble in mobile development, both native iOS and Android and hybrid HTMl5 apps.

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