Category: rj.com

Notes on getting up and running on my new Mac. Probably not an interesting article, I'm writing it as a letter to the future me.

We keep re-reading about the FTP object, and re-learning how it works. Then a week later, we've forgotten.

Last time we zeroed in on the FTP capability of our new cut at my 'iPad' project. Today, I'm hoping we'll TDD an FTP object.

Against all my best judgment, we decide to 'start over' on this tiny product.

We've not done work on this for ages. Tozier and I try to figure out what's up.

Just a bit of reflection after two weeks off. Next week, I hope we'll actually do something. Today I remember the Boy Scout Refactoring Rule.

It has been a week since Tozier and I last worked, and I spent most of the time under repair. I'm thinking we'll work on the date-sensitive stuff. I'm mostly wrong.

Chet has me nearly convinced to move my site base to Dropbox. Today we'll talk further about that and about moving the product forward.

I decide to spike a bit on folder and file manipulation.

When this article appears, it will have been processed by our new (MVP) iPad Transfer Mechanism. 'Thank you for pressing the self-destruct button.'

Tozier and I learned something about habitable code yesterday. Topics may include bits of Confirmation Bias and fragments of Coding Morality.

I thought today we'd work on the triggering mechanism for the iPad build. Instead something important happened! (Clickbait)

If I were a REAL product owner, I'd be pressuring the hell out of my team right now. So I will. How did that work out, Ron?

We'll try to focus on building features today, but there are lurking issues in those magical incantations we do about Dir and FTP classes.

Thoughts about Technical Debt

Time to do some work after the heavy refactorings involving quantum mechanics. Let's see if we remember how.

In this short session, we inch forward and wind up in a better place. Not THAT better place. I just mean the code is better.

What's next for the iPad project? Refactoring, it turns out.

We knew last Thursday that we had an issue with folders and folder names. A week later, we dig back in.

We really hope to get from end to end today. You won't believe what happens next. Unless you're paying attention.

Tozier and I shoot again for end to end on the iPad project. What happens next? As I write these words, I don't know either.

We're clearly closer than we were, and it feels very close. But not as close as we thought.

Bill and I decided to do a bit more on the iPad publication project. You won't believe what happened next. Unless you expect trouble.

Today Tozier and I will do a Quick Design Session and start TDDing something that will, I hope, turn into the actual app.

In which we suddenly realize something about Tozier.

Tozier and I start with some Ruby code for FTP or something.

Tozier and I try some things.

I'm told the iPad is the new Mac, or something. Anyway, it'd be nice to be able to write articles on the iPad and get them on my web site without lugging around my Macbook.

The conversion from XProgramming.com to RonJeffries.com is essentially complete. Let's look at some learnings.

Content from XProgramming has been moved to this site. Some brief retrospective thoughts.

As Tozier and I work on Scraper, I find the pairing to be quite difficult, though not unrewarding.

A report on what's going on behind the scenes, with a bit of info on how we have built and used plugins and templates. Major errors within!

Some questions come to mind about creating articles for a static site. In particular, what about trips with only an iPad?

We come up with a block tag plug-in that lets us display most recent articles, sorted lists, and so on.

We finally got some testing going on up in our house.

Today we made some good progress, including a plugin!

We've been working on the XProgramming replacement project since late September, so let's talk about estimation.

Doing simple things with Liquid templates is so awful it makes me want to ditch Jekylll just to get rid of Liquid.

A progress report, and some waffling. There's a lot of learning in a new project.

Project Description as posted on github pages.

Progress report on the ongoing XProgramming rewrite.

Report on working with page layout. Just notes.

A record of some of the stories for the system.

Note on an issue with the new site. Odd formatting.

XProgramming.com needs a new implementation. Want to watch?