The Twenty Minute Union
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 :-)
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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 …
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