Blog Posts

• 17 Jul 2010
  Making Thinking Sphinx Fast in Development Mode programming rails sphinx
• 06 Jul 2010
  An Inkling programming thoughts
• 20 May 2010
  Future of Web Design Notes events design
• 27 Apr 2010
  My Desktop is Boring work productivity
• 06 Apr 2010
  JsChat and Ico Updates jschat ico opensource
• 31 Mar 2010
  The Secret of Popular Blogs blogging
• 24 Feb 2010
  Your Boss/Client's Guide to iPhone Interfaces iphone programming design
• 18 Feb 2010
  Massive Attack music
• 21 Jan 2010
  DailyJS javascript programming
• 16 Jan 2010
  Smartphone Security Flaws / Nexus One Review mobile security
• 12 Nov 2009
  iPhone Tech Talks: A Great Success koolaid programming iphone
• 04 Nov 2009
  Riotjs: A JavaScript Unit Testing Framework javascript programming
• 29 Oct 2009
  Running a Web Business in the UK business marketing
• 26 Oct 2009
  Riot: Ruby Unit Testing programming testing ruby riot
• 22 Oct 2009
  Fear and Loathing in JavaScript DSLs javascript DSL
• 19 Oct 2009
  BBC Glow: Overview and Example bbc glow javascript tutorials
• 09 Oct 2009
  Gemcutter ruby gems gemcutter
• 16 Sep 2009
  Deployment: Diffs and Dependencies ruby rails deployment agiledeployment
• 21 Aug 2009
  The End of Religious Wars programming productivity
• 20 Aug 2009
  What Makes You Happy? life productivity
• 12 Aug 2009
  Agile Deployment: Unified Repository ruby rails deployment agiledeployment
• 03 Aug 2009
  Quickly Load Rails Projects ruby rails tips productivity
• 31 Jul 2009
  A Rails Plugin for Tokyo Dystopia ruby rails plugins tokyocabinet
• 28 Jul 2009
  Vlad Debugging and Solutions ruby rails deployment agiledeployment
• 27 Jul 2009
  Agile Deployment: Taxonomy ruby rails deployment agiledeployment
• 16 Jul 2009
  Agile Deployment: Checklist ruby rails deployment agiledeployment
• 13 Jul 2009
  Agile Deployment ruby rails deployment agiledeployment
• 09 Jul 2009
  Using Jekyll site design
• 03 Jul 2009
  Rapid Rails: Boot Up Time rails rapidrails ruby performance
• 02 Jul 2009
  Rapid Rails: Mastering Indexes rapidrails rails optimisation
• 23 Jun 2009
  iPhone 3.0 Development Glitches programming iphone
• 02 Jun 2009
  Experiences Releasing an Open Source Project thoughts
• 15 May 2009
  Intuitive Code programming thoughts
• 01 May 2009
  Future of Web Design Notes events design
• 28 Apr 2009
  Ryan Singer Workshop design events
• 21 Apr 2009
  Deadline for Mac (and GitHub Hooks) programming deadline
• 15 Apr 2009
  Secure Trading Rails Plugin programming money
• 10 Apr 2009
  Beautiful Algorithms programming ruby
• 09 Apr 2009
  Let's Make a Game: Snake shoes ruby programming
• 06 Apr 2009
  GitLondon: Event Review and Notes events london gitlondon git
• 02 Apr 2009
  Open Map Technology maps geolocation geocoding
• 11 Mar 2009
  Hack the Tube programming
• 10 Mar 2009
  The Rosetta Stone of iPhone UI Development programming iphone
• 08 Mar 2009
  Rewired State Project: StateAware events programming
• 06 Mar 2009
  Getting Started with iPhone Development iphone programming
• 04 Mar 2009
  Mini App: TweetFu projects miniapps
• 03 Mar 2009
  Vim Stuff vim programming
• 09 Feb 2009
  MoloPix photography iphone apps
• 04 Feb 2009
  Google's a Glutton for It google privacy
• 03 Feb 2009
  What Hosted Blogging Should Look Like writing blogging software
• 02 Feb 2009
  Cross-Browser Testing: Follow-up browsers design testing
• 30 Jan 2009
  What Cross-Browser Testing Could Look Like thoughts web design
• 29 Jan 2009
  New Project: Quite Useful writing blogs
• 21 Jan 2009
  Ico: SVG Graphs with Prototype and Raphael graphs programming javascript
• 04 Jan 2009
  SMS/Web Apps and Rapid Fluid Support sms fluid ssb
• 24 Nov 2008
  LittleBigPlanet Level Design Tips games littlebigplanet design
• 13 Nov 2008
  Rails Doesn't Crash a Lot programming rails sysadmin
• 08 Nov 2008
  Deadline projects apps
• 15 Oct 2008
  FOWA 08: Social Notes and Observations fowa
• 14 Oct 2008
  FOWA 08: Day 2 Talks fowa
• 13 Oct 2008
  FOWA 08: Day 1 Talks fowa
• 08 Oct 2008
  Captor: A Capistrano GUI capistrano ruby programming
• 03 Oct 2008
  Top 5 uses for Capistrano capistrano rails programming sysadmin
• 25 Sep 2008
  Building a Single-Sign-On System in Rails rails programming
• 22 Sep 2008
  Dynamic Rails Error Help rails javascript programming
• 11 Sep 2008
  Guerrilla Software Marketing Strategies marketing
• 08 Sep 2008
  Analytics with Capistrano capistrano programming ruby
• 27 Jun 2008
  Rails Tutorial Part 1 writing rails ruby
• 10 Jun 2008
  We Need to Talk personal
• 28 May 2008
  5 Great Mac Tools for Programmers programming tools mac
• 21 Apr 2008
  Rapid Rails Part 3: Desktop Mastery programming rails rapidrails
• 01 Apr 2008
  Rapid Rails Part 2: Rapid Literally programming sysadmin server rails rapidrails
• 27 Mar 2008
  Rapid Rails Part 1: Command Line Mastery rails productivity programming rapidrails
• 04 Feb 2008
  Some Ruby on Rails Plugin Stats ruby rails programming plugins
• 04 Feb 2008
  Rails Plugin Testing Guide ruby rails programming testing plugins
• 18 Jan 2008
  Start Using Test Driven Development Today programming testing
• 08 Jan 2008
  10 Essential Ruby Gems programming ruby gems
• 16 Jun 2007
  A Taxonomy of Rails Plugins rails programming ruby patterns plugins
• 29 May 2007
  Constants are Changing ruby programming
• 18 May 2007
  Session Encapsulation rails programming tips
• 15 Apr 2007
  Tools for Tests (JavaScript Edition) javascript testing programming
• 09 Apr 2007
  Tools for Tests programming tips ruby testing
• 28 Mar 2007
  Push Back Explored programming theory
• 07 Mar 2007
  Rails Quality Control Tip: Use Verify in Controllers ruby rails tips programming
• 06 Mar 2007
  Rails Speed Tip: link_tag Caching rails programming tips
• 05 Jan 2007
  Hpricot Google Search Snippet hpricot ruby programming snippets
• 23 Dec 2006
  Dashboard Widgets are Great with Prototype prototype javascript programming
• 30 Nov 2006
  Server-Sent Events in Opera browsers standards ajax javascript
• 23 Nov 2006
  Easy Zip Compression in Ruby ruby programming
• 10 Nov 2006
  Load Your .vimrc with Helipad helipad vim
• 27 Oct 2006
  Easy Mac Applications with Camping ruby camping programming mac
• 22 Oct 2006
  Vim for TextMate Fans textmate vim editors
• 16 Oct 2006
  Rails Time Saving Tips tips rails programming
• 06 Sep 2006
  Mac-friendly Terminal Cheat Sheet mac cheatsheets terminal console
• 06 Aug 2006
  Textile JavaScript Class textile javascript programming
• 01 Aug 2006
  Dismantling Browser Ajax Handling ajax javascript
• 02 Jul 2006
  Backpack Automator Plugin backpack automator
• 31 May 2006
  Using APIs: Don't Forget About RSS and Atom Feeds programming api rss atom
• 04 May 2006
  Getting Started with Rails Optimisation rails performance optimisation programming
• 21 Apr 2006
  RSI rsi ergonomics
• 05 Apr 2006
  PHP 5's Anonymous Functions php programming
• 28 Feb 2006
  What you Absolutely Must Know About TextMate textmate editors programming
• 24 Jan 2006
  Knowing JavaScript programming javascript lies
• 13 Jan 2006
  The Ajax and JavaScript Magic Behind Apple's New iDisk apple javascript analysis mac
• 21 Dec 2005
  JavaScript Function to Help with Accesskeys javascript code snippets programming
• 16 Dec 2005
  Google Home API Security google api programming
• 15 Dec 2005
  Google Home Module google programming api
• 10 Dec 2005
  script.aculo.us: When to Use Ajax and Effects tips programming code javascript
• 09 Dec 2005
  Carson Workshops: Get Started Using Ajax By Thomas Fuchs javascript programming workshops
• 29 Nov 2005
  Single-table Inheritance and validates_as_unique snippets code programming rails
• 18 Nov 2005
  Javascript Mini Bibliography javascript snippets code programming
• 19 Oct 2004
  Using XSLT with Bad HTML php xslt programming
• 07 Oct 2004
  Processing Textile Text with XSLT xslt programming snippets tips textile
• 02 Aug 2004
  Internationalisation with XSLT xslt php internationalisation
• 16 Jul 2004
  Processessing Multiple XML Files with XSLT in PHP php xslt programming snippets tips
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Work

Ruby on Rails web applications I've created at Helicoid:

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  Helipad
  Free notes app that includes Mac and iPhone clients
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  Deadline
  Reminders through email, SMS, IM, plus iPhone app
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  Loom
  Helpdesk and issue tracking
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  Tiktrac
  Time tracking
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  Ebiwrite
  Tools for translators

Public iPhone and Mac apps:

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  Helipad
  Notepad app (App Store Link, Mac)
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  Deadline
  Reminder app (App Store Link, Mac)
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  CPH
  Freelance project for Double Jump Media (App Store Link)

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  → For more visit my work page

Open Source Projects

• JsChat
  Real-time chat protocol with web and console clients
• Ico
  A simple JavaScript graph library inspired by Stephen Few's books
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  → For more visit github/alexyoung

Writing

• DailyJS
  A popular JavaScript programming blog