Today I found myself needing to uninstall all the gems in my rvm gemset. As I didn’t want to uninstall each gem by hand (there was quite a long list) I started poking about for options in the gem command. Unfortunately the ruby gems tool does not have an option to uninstall all gems at once, so something else was required. Enter a bit of command line magic! Continue reading
Tell Git to ignore changes to tracked files
This post is a short one and is as much a note to myself as anyone else. I have used this essential command many times in the past, but I use it so infrequently I always have to go and look it up when I come to need it. This post will be much quicker for me to find 
Sometimes you find that you need to make a change to a file (often a config file) that makes sense for your local development environment, but Continue reading
A business blog is not just for Xmas
Every sinice I have been working on my own web startup I have had a very keen interest in Internet marketing. I love studying the ins and outs of all the different techniques and love to devour any articles that pop up on my Hacker News feed about scrappy startups finding novel ways to promote themselves on the cheap.
One of the prevailing pieces of wisdom is that the foundations of a business’s web marketing strategy should be the company blog. Continue reading
Why I prefer developing web apps
I am a big proponent of Web Applications, and I think the benefits are so clear that I am sometimes taken aback when I encounter people who want to develop Desktop applications. It is times like these when I realise that not everyone has been drinking the same kool-aid as I have Continue reading
Removing Posted At & Posted By From Your WordPress Theme
I recently decided to remove the “Posted By James” at the top of every blog post. This is my personal blog after all, who else would have posted to it? I also decided that I would prefer people reading my blog posts not to be too concerned when I wrote each post. After all each one of my posts is a timeless classic right? Right?! Continue reading
A Simple Link Shortener In Rails
One of the neat things that Dealush allows it’s users to do is to automatically tweet sales when they are listed. A key part of the tweet is a link back to the sale listing on Dealush. If your have heard of twitter you probably know Continue reading