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An experimental lifestream app

Some time ago DW and myself had an enthusiastic conversation about logging various aspects of our electronic lives: emails sent and received, RSS feeds read, incoming and outgoing phone calls, the list goes on.
At that time I’d already started tinkering with apps to track my efforts in the gym and changes in my bodyweight, I’ve [...]

Home time revisited – redeveloping a CakePHP application with Sinatra

I’ve just released the latest iteration of hometi.me, a little nano-app I’ve mentioned before.
Deliberate Practice
It’s only a trivial app but I’ve a bit of free time before the start of a contract so I thought it would be good practice to redevelop it, a task I’d been ignoring for a long time.
Goodbye CakePHP, Hello Sinatra
The [...]

node-shoutbox – a simple node.js demo

Last month, at the inaugural Super Happy Dev Castle, my buddy Dave Rice told me about a project he was working on involving node.js, an event-based I/O system for Javascript.
Javascript outside of the browser?
This concept seemed almost ridiculous to me at that time but I thought it was worth a look and cobbled together a [...]