Lacing shoes
I got some new shoes today because my old ones had cracks in the soles (which got my feet wet!). So once I'd admired them and polished them, it was time to lace them. Antonia…
Tips when writing an API in Ruby on Rails
At work we have settled into a pattern of splitting our frontend and backend into standalone JS applications at the front and Ruby on Rails at the back. This means I've been writing a lot…
Deploying a Node.js web application with Capistrano
Capistrano is a Ruby-based server automaton and deployment tool that is primarily designed to deploy Ruby (on Rails) applications, but also works really well for deploying Node.js applications because of its sensible defaults. I'm…
Tiny Upstart script to keep a NodeJS process alive
I'm not sure what it is about startup scripts, but people seem intent on complicating them. In my experience the simplest way to keep a non-daemonizing NodeJS app running (on an Ubuntu server) is to…
Rickon
Update: Rickon is recovering well, full post soon :) Our oldest rat, Rickon (all our rats are named after Game of Thrones characters) is having surgery tomorrow to have a tumour removed. He has managed to…