I’m Jon, and over the past 6 years I’ve been involved in the development of web applications big and small. Whether you want a full e-commerce solution, an application to streamline your business processes, or a business idea turned into a reality, I can use some of that experience to help you.
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I use S3 to share files temporarily for people, largely because it’s quick and simple when using a tool like s3cmd, close enough to free for the cost not to matter.
I also use Alfred to provide a GUI command line for Mac OS.
Whilst reading about Heroku’s logging on Adam’s blog I came across logger,
a tool available on most unix systems which takes any input on STDIN, and redirects it to syslog with the provided options. I’d never heard of it,
I’ve been doing some more Open Sourcery for the last few days, and I think it’s just about at a point where I’m happy writing about it now.
Noumenon is a content management system which tries to focus on the content, rather then it’s presentation. Currently it’s roughly equivalent to Jekyll or Toto, but without the blogging focus (although you could probably build a blog with it)…
TLDR; I wrote an Open Source version of Copycopter’s server called Text Tractor. You can find it on GitHub at http://github.com/jellybob/text_tractor.
Update: I was asked by Thoughtbot to change the application’s name from it’s original one, so it’s called Text Tractor now.
The last couple of days I’ve been writing a Sinatra applications which I plan to use for managing copy on my client’s web applications. It’s not a full blown content management system, it’s just enough to allow clients to change the titles of pages and the like by themselves…
Given that my most popular post (by far) is about creating a new Rails 3 project with Mongoid and the assorted extras you always end up needing. It’s probably time