A little while ago at work I said that I thought we could build a union catlogue in twenty minutes, in the same style as the ruby-on-rails videos where they take over the world build a simple blog in 20 minutes – there’s a few of them around and 20 minutes seems to be the magic number.
Anyways, to cut a long story short I got ‘called’ on it and told that I had to put my money where my mouth was and, despite having not done it yet, we announced the upcoming title in a public webinar. No pressure…
For anyone else thinking about trying “The Twenty Minute Whatever” I suggest you re-consider. It’s only when you try to record yourself coding, live, without edits that you realise how badly you type!
We published it yesterday over on our developer network site 
Keeping an eye on Talis
Since leaving Talis I’ve continued to keep an eye on what they’ve been up to. Well I do still have some shares so I have a vested interest…
Anyway a couple of things jumped out at me so I thought I’d metion them here. The first …