Category Archives: development

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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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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Be passionate about what you do

By jonezy | Published: April 6, 2008
The other day at lunch a co-worker of mine and I were talking about hockey. Our conversation ended up at Alexander Ovechkin, left winger for the Washington Capitals. Whether you are a hockey fan or not this guy is a sight to see on the ice. Every goal he scores is like his first goal, every [...]
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Learning from others

By jonezy | Published: April 1, 2008
In the vein of the last post (what went well, what didn’t go well, what can i try next time?), I decided to apply this exercise to a particularly bad customer service experience I had at the local drug store. But this time I would apply those 3 questions to how the pharmacy [...]
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Wanted: Senior .NET Developer

By jonezy | Published: March 25, 2008
The company I work for is looking for a Senior .NET developer!  Check below for the details: Q4 Web Systems is looking for a kick-ass senior .NET developer.  If you are a technology junkie and your idea of fun is spending a Saturday night reading about Team Foundation Server 2008 or playing with Silverlight 2.0 just [...]
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ASP.NET Mvc Source Available

By jonezy | Published: March 21, 2008
Just posted on Scott Guthries blog this morning, you can now download the source code for Microsoft’s ASP.NET Mvc extensions. Grab it at Codeplex
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Q4Press.com

By jonezy | Published: March 18, 2008
At work we decided that we needed to put together a marketing site for our just released product Q4 Press. What followed was literally a couple of hours of back and forth with the CEO of the company and we had the site done and ready to go. For such a quick turnaround I’m really happy with [...]
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web application testing in ruby

By jonezy | Published: October 4, 2006
i have been looking for an excuse to try writing some ruby code for a while now and I just stumbled on Watir (web application testing in ruby) which seems to be a pretty good place to start.  I can apply it to work related tasks (automate some of the more boring and repetitive tasks [...]
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other opinions about the joel vs dhh debate

By jonezy | Published: September 4, 2006
When Did High Tech Become High School? Typical Enterprise Impasse Svec on Joel on Software on Language Wars
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Do as I say, not as I do

By jonezy | Published: September 2, 2006
I present to you 2 arguments. Well one attack and one response really. Joel Splosky talks down to Ruby on Rails while extolling the virtues of his own private closed source framework (compiler he reffers to it as) Wasabi* David Heinnemer Hannsen responds and sticks up for his baby. I am slightly confused by Joel’s bashing of [...]
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