Been Born Yet – Creating a Rails Application for the first time
About three months ago I started to work on my first Ruby on Rails application. As the annoying “more of a designer than a developer” type of web person, I’ve always felt reliant on developer friends and colleagues in order to build anything more than static HTML/CSS & Javascript. While I acknowledge that I’m not an excellent ...
StoryWallApp: Digital Kanban Cards
As I’ve said before, most digital task systems don’t cut it for me. They’re either too opinionated or intrude on my life constantly to the point that, when coupled with my personality, I can’t get away from a to-do list that follows me around wherever we go. A colleague of mine, Toby Hede, has just released something which ...
The hidden cost of the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) approach
Recently we’ve been adopting a more disciplined approach to launching websites in their minimum viable execution and then iterating improvements based on feedback. The idea behind this approach is explained well in Eric Reis’ new book The Lean Startup (which I recommend). The basic concept is to get to a point where you can learn ...
The web is enough.
Recently at work I’ve found myself being pulled in a few directions by some departures and reshuffles and this has made me think about something I haven’t had to really articulate before so I thought I’d give it a go here.
From the farm to the web – helping a novice into the e-commerce world
So I’m sitting here on a Saturday morning trying to figure out the best way to get my mother-in-law into the modern era and into e-commerce. There are several challenges so I thought it might be useful in a similar situation if I was to document my thoughts.