Monthly Archives: May 2008

How often do you commit?

By jonezy | Published: May 31, 2008
I was working on some code today and was getting ready to do a check in and I thought to myself, should I be checking this code in? I made tiny change that would end up being part of a bigger refactoring of some tests I was writing, I wasn’t sure if I would be [...]
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jonezy.org.BackpackAPI

By jonezy | Published: May 27, 2008
Is the reason why I haven’t been posting here, I’m working on building a c# wrapper for the 37 Signals Backpack API. Nothing terribly exciting yet (I’m basically just implementing the services per the api docs). I’m hosting this at Google Code and this will be an open source project. I’m also [...]
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What do you do when the shit hits the fan?

By jonezy | Published: May 13, 2008
To cut to the point, I was promoting some changes for a client last night. It was an update to part of our product that allows our customers to send automated and one off emails to lists of subscribers. I had done promotions similar to this in the past (in fact i’ve probably done the [...]
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Twitter in plain english

By jonezy | Published: May 10, 2008
Found this while reading Rick Strahl’s blog today, I’ve tried to explain twitter to a lot of people but this pretty much sums it up in about 2 minutes, what more could you ask for? (video source: http://www.commoncraft.com/Twitter)
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Semantics, language and meaning

By jonezy | Published: May 5, 2008
As an employee of a software development it’s fairly common to have people of many nationalities and cultural backgrounds as co-workers. More and more people from around the world come to Canada and the United States to find jobs in the tech industry, bringing there ample skills and knowledge to the companies they work for. [...]
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