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All of my crazy bored thoughts and random projects that can only be born from boredom with whatever I was supposed to be doing at the time. Usually this kind of information will make little sense to anyone who doesn’t actually know me.

Project Management - a matter of perspective!

UPDATE: Projects go wrong because of poor communication

Posted on 25 October, 2011 by James Rowe

Turns out this fantastic project management cartoon is actually created from a website that generates them for you
Just been sent this fantastic cartoon after having a rant about poor communcation on a project I am working on.

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Documentary evidence that Thursday is in fact, the new Friday

Posted on 23 September, 2010 by James Rowe

I have documentary evidence that Thursday is in fact, the new Friday. NY Times and Orange And, if we can’t trust American Newspapers or French Telecommunications Networks then who can we trust!? I particularly like the bit about the quote from the clash… What it doesn’t mention is that the weekend comes to a halt [...]

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Jeffxcalibur, a bizarre cartoon that only my friends will understand

Posted on 25 July, 2008 by James Rowe

I was looking through some old files and stumbled upon an old cartoon I wrote, I can’t imagine anyone finding these interesting apart from those people actually in the cartoons – but you never know. And that’s as far as I got. If anyone can suggest how the story should continue then leave me a [...]

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Things I'm Using A Lot
  • 960 Grid System CSS framework for nice structured fixed width pages
  • Backbone.js MVC framework for javascript
  • humanstxt.org an initiative for knowing the people behind a website
  • jCanvaScript Scene graph for HTML5 canvas element
  • Programming Ruby the Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide is the best reference I have found
  • Ruby on Rails Docs The best place to go for help is very often the API documentation.
My Open Source Projects
  • Handset Detection Rails plugin to deal with contacting the really useful handsetdetection.com web service
  • number to words Rails gem to turn a number into words
Useful Information
  • Development Archive Links to my old projects and work from Uni etc.
  • James Rowe My bio on about.me
  • Jim Rowe My bio on flavors.me
Friends and Co-Workers
  • Nezza @ somewheretorant.com
  • Oi my employer
  • Steve Andrews @ salin.org
Twitter Feed
  • where the h3ll is my ice cream sandwich google? #nexuss #ics #google
  • RT @sal1n: 90% of all housing benefit claimants are in actually work, in effect it's a state subsidy which allows greedy employers to pa ...
  • RT @rubynortheast: UK Government using Ruby (@rails and @sinatra) for their new digital platform: http://t.co/NVM1xYFo
  • RT @karlton303: #backbone 0.9 is out - check out the changelog http://t.co/hH4qNjO5 #javascript
  • RT @jamesmockett: This piece from BBC News about Vienna's coffee houses is all the more interesting as it was filmed on a Sony NEX-5N: h ...
  • @sal1n Take a look... http://t.co/yv3fiWOA
  • ☣ A char that's going to be useful when spreading the word on twitter about a zombie outbreak ☣ http://t.co/W0TQXNji
  • @sal1n I decided to go with that in the end, but what is the difference? couldn't find anything googling for it #linode
  • should I be using the /srv or the /var/www directories for my websites? #linode
  • Great little "bolt on" eCommerce component... http://t.co/KpS0wsAs