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oceanician
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About oceanician
Seem to come up with ideas all the time, but like to collaborate on them.
What's your idea? Maybe we can swap coding time & get some ideas out there?
Me=RoR(current), Groovy on Grails (1yr), RoR(8+ yrs), PHP 1.5 years, Java(4.5 years), C++ (1 year) etc etc etc
Look fwd to hearing from you: http://twitter.com/alterisian
Also available for Ruby On Rails work: http://alter.is
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I wonder what you think of Gherkin/Cucumber? https://cucumber.io "Cucumber lets you write automated tests in plain language." I wonder if has been integrated with ClaudeCode yet?
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Comment #33957913
I feel Chris was a very intelligent human, who conveyed complex information, in a human-digestable manner, that many others of us struggle with. I saw him present in Manchester at …
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Comment #26153830
Glad it was saved. Other early contenders for the 'first' title include the ones from Manchester: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Mark_1
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Comment #25988303
Wow. So 1950s. I wonder if this was the very first data visualisation then?
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Comment #6975359
http://www.reddit.com/r/tinyhouses
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Comment #6975161
I've debating about doing this in the UK with a 32ft shipping container, and possibly straw bail externally for insulation, and a water collector on the roof for grey usage. Seen s…
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Comment #6923884
I wonder how many are merely 'consulting' or not even that, just on a 3 month tourist?
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Comment #6920362
Hey, this is sound advice. I've a very early days version of a travel bucket list app, that I've geographically limited to one city - my own, as the place that you can fly out from…
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Comment #6681614
Cheers, this is interesting as I've recently started a travel planning project, incorporating prices of flights, lately. Would love to chat to others who've gained traction, and st…
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Comment #6513810
Also make sure you someone from the business who'se interested in the project. Make them interested if needs be i.e. find out what pain points they experienced with the old app, an…
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Comment #6513792
I'd write down several simple features that the web application will need to do. Then put them into Trello. Then prioritise which ones are the most valuable to the business. Then t…
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Comment #6367764
Perhaps there's public snapshots that you can start with?
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Comment #6367327
I'm glad that both of these companies exist and offer globally competitive hosting, and are both local to myself. Can either offer a service where you can create a new server setup…
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Comment #6364294
would love to see this done in space: http://www.biosphericproject.com/frontpage (A biospheric greenhouse project in Salford/Manchester, UK.
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Comment #6172142
Really good idea, but needs more consumer & business ideas on. Too many geek tools at the moment.
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Comment #6140420
time is indeed flying. even 2001 seems like yesterday for me.
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Comment #6069408
This looks really good. Just need another Ruby programmer to try it out with now :) Anyone free a week today - next Friday, 26th July?
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Comment #6051233
It would be interesting to see good examples of how others have recruited, and not ended up with near-100% male developer employees.
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Comment #6019297
Going to be harder for people to clone that than Reader :/
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Comment #5873271
This works great for me if not used too frequently: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0EgzJ0KGxg Wish there was a 8 hour version!
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Comment #5839106
Cheers for the reminder. I've definitely seen this before, but had completely forgot to set it up on my new laptop. Good post.
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Comment #5644360
Lots of pdfs with no alternatives here: http://www.manchester.gov.uk/site/scripts/meetings_index.php
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Comment #5644329
I feel like it's a step improvement, and will help people use the site. However, what I'd have really liked to see is machine readable minutes of the council. This is something tha…