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So long, 2008

Approximately a year ago, you may have wished me a happy 2008. If you did, thank you! I had a pretty awesome year! Reading back in my blog, it feels like a long year. In fact, i noticed a stark...

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On learning Vim

I'm sure Vim is going to be a wonderful thing for me to have learnt – a skill that will stay with me and benefit me for the rest of my life. It's just getting there that's so hard! I started using Vim...

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Addicted – a web app in a day!

Today was a rather different day at work – when we arrived we learnt that we were going to build a web app in a day! Just for fun! This morning there was no ykyat.com. Now there is! We bought the...

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I have such a good job!

How cool is it that i can spend the day doing fun stuff like this and get paid for it?! This is how ykyat.com looks now! See – you can comment now! And you can get RSS feeds! If you're on Twitter, why...

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File under: notes to self

Note to self: Not everything has do be done as quickly as is humanly possible! I tend to want to type as fast as i possibly can, all the time, and code as fast as my brain can do it. Learning Vim has...

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What's going on in aimee's life?

I'm back! I have been away from the Internet for a week – a self-enforced leave of absence to try to avoid getting RSI. Happily to say, it seems to have worked – just typing as much as i need to at...

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Distressing times for the Rails community

Things like this sadden me: Mike Gunderloy resigns as a Rails activist, no longer wishing to be a public spokesperson for Rails. This is a great loss for the community. Things like this disappoint me:...

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Glimmers of Hope

This beautiful photo was taken by @ecomba at Barton Farm this morning: Quite appropriate, since the team have a big project to deliver today, which has been months in the making. I have worked on the...

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My software apprenticeship

I have recently had the privilege of being accepted as an apprentice to software craftsman and philosopher Enrique Comba Riepenhausen. This is part of Eden Development adopting a craftsmanship approach...

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Moving blogs around

Hello dear readers. I have had this blog for several years but you've probably noticed i very rarely update it these days. I have decided to move to a new blog at sermoa.wordpress.com. I have recently...

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