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Re: Entry at plasticshore.com

edburton — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 04:13:07 -0000

All very true. I like to accentuate one of the positive differences from the "water cooler" context. At a water cooler regardless of whether you've got a lot or a little information or emotion to express, rambling is an option. With twitter if you have a lot to express rambling isn't an option. You can use a URL or you can use poetry, or whichever combination of the two works best for you in 140 characters or less. I like to think of it as a way of sharing, saving and reflecting on the often insubstantial and sometimes profound fragments of poetry that constitute daily life that are otherwise in danger of being lost when daily life is lived at a distance from our peers.

Re: Alex is blogging, too: I have updated plasticshore one more time. This...

edburton — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:43:18 -0000

I liked the image so much I clicked the "create a site like this button", I don't seem to have a site like this though, whole story please! x

Re: Alex is blogging, too: I have updated plasticshore one more time. This...

edburton — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:10:14 -0000

cool, looks nice and easy, http://edburton.net might be an early adopter :-{)}

Re: Entry at plasticshore.com

timdiggins — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:14:10 -0000

oh lovely

Re: Entry at plasticshore.com

timdiggins — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:43:55 -0000

weewar head to head with last.fm. very cool!

Re: Entry at plasticshore.com

timdiggins — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:44:43 -0000

hmmm. very gnomic url.

Re: Photo | plasticshore.com

timdiggins — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:52:39 -0000

Alas, the last remnants of a very silly UI

Re: New to Git? | plasticshore.com

timdiggins — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:35:05 -0000

thank you alex!

Re: stream.red56.co.uk

timdiggins — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:57:04 -0000

after I woke up my mac from deep-sleep... this is what I saw (it
reflected changes to underlying changes in interface (though mouse was
ignored, keyboard events were not) - and even moved across multiple
monitors and then mirroring. Wild! Thankfully normal non-acid-trip-mac
was restored on reboot.

Re: Pave the cow paths

timdiggins — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:20:21 -0000

I like this concept, but prefer the term "desire line" (same meaning as cowpath, but comes from landscape designers' lingo)

Re: Tumblr Friendfeed Theme Release

timdiggins — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:31:45 -0000

Why is friend feed such critical part of the mix? what does it bring you that tumblr on it's own doesn't? (portability?)

Re: Iridesco Watercooler - Permatime - share any point in time across time...

timdiggins — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:21:15 -0000

Thanks for the thumbs up. We've just deployed some more changes, and more country knowledge. The truly dedicated can follow news-tweets at http://twitter.com/permatime !

Re: stream.red56.co.uk

timdiggins — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:45:19 -0000

oh and I forgot... fax in and out.

Re: Task Sorting Just Got Better

timdiggins — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:25:01 -0000

it's not just projext managers who will like this - people using NoKahuna with pair programming, and also any team where tasks move (or can move) between people quite a lot, but they still need to prioritize the tasks for the team rather than individual...

Re: Bookmarking is dead

timdiggins — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:59:17 -0000

Hmmm, I remember you saying this a year or two ago, Alex. But bookmarking is still useful, even if search has killed it's initial reason to exist. I still have a wide delicious library of bookmarks (mostly of things I want to read (or reread) or others to read, NOT of things I need to 'refer to' again). I also have a very useful set of bookmarks in my browser - not just bookmarklets, but also particular things that google is bad at pinpointing exactly (or is that I forget how to tell google to find it precisely) - e.g. the docs for the version of python that I have to use on one platform (is that 2.4.4 or 2.5.5 ?) and other often-used custom deep links and extranet/intranet links, that are badly served by search.

But I agree that the original reasons for bookmarking have gone. Bookmarking is dead. Long live bookmarking!

Re: Bye bye user filtering

timdiggins — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:37:56 -0000

"Filtering by user" was a possibility in the previous ui, but it was not the important feature introduced in that "filtering" ui, nor was it the feature that I am missing in the revised ui. Grouping by user (as present) and filtering by user are functionally very similar. I love the way No Kahuna makes it easy to move tasks between users, and I use this a lot in my projects. I really want the team to own and care for all the tasks - prioritization (ordering) of tasks is a team responsibility and getting as many important (prioritized) tasks done is something everyone should care about. The new removal of this feature actively prevents me from working on ordering of tasks (ignoring who is currently assinged to them). Worse, it encourages (as you point out in your post: "The reality is that my own tasks are the most important thing to see when I click a category") users to 'silo' themselves and just care about the tasks that are /currently/ assigned to them, rather than look at the most important task and think about the tasks from a holistic, whole-team, project perspective. Seeing that the task you're about to do is say, the fifth down the list of tasks which are all assigned to someone else, might make you think - hey, maybe I should do one of those other 4, or see if I can help, rather than just... let me get on with *my* tasks.

I can appreciate the simplicity of the new revised ui (and simplicity is absolutely a key feature of No Kahuna). But I'm afraid that the specific design encourages a "heads down, get work done" behaviour at precisely the wrong moment.

Re: Study your organisation as a system

timdiggins — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:44:33 -0000

I just posted about this on The Connected Republic (http://theconnectedrepublic..., but might (if I have time!) break up those points into separate posts here.

Re: Task list improvement

timdiggins — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:45:16 -0000

I didn't realize this was done till just now. Superb. love it. (and who is that charming third person in your sample screenshot... ;-) )

Have to say though, I'm not loving: the lack of "all tasks" and the "improved" order for task "events". (I think of it as the task "conversation", which might explain why I find it hard in reverse order).

Re: Task list improvement

timdiggins — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:42:19 -0000

Agreed on preference on order of those events...

but the prob with "all tasks" ordering is related to another item high on my wish^H^H^H^H desperately-needed list: non-user based ordering. If you only allowed reordering when NOT grouped by person (not currently availble) that would solve both problems.

Given that Nok is all about moving tasks from person to person, having a prioritization system that is linked to person-grouping seems somewhat counter-intuitive...

Re: Add Spaces To Your Dock

timdiggins — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 06:11:54 -0000

Note for copy-and-pasters that the command line needs non-curly, quotes/double-quotes, so should be like this (fingers crossed that these don't go automatically curly):

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{"tile-type"="spacer-tile";}'

Re: Stable Circle CI builds with PhantomJS for larger Rails-backed frontend apps

timdiggins — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 10:17:50 -0000

Interesting to read this. We've had so much random-error pain with phantomjs (not to mention difficulties in navigating the 1.9.8/2.0.0 divide) that we've already moved to capybara-webkit, which (after some initial teething difficulties) seems much more reliable, and errors are *mostly* reproduceable (in the sense of: fewer errors that "work on my machine" but not on circleci)

However I'm really interested in your suggestion to "switch parallel builds off" -- why do you think this changes things? (ie. what evidence do you have, and what's the plausible cause of this).

Re: Introducing the new App Gallery

timdiggins — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 07:48:31 -0000

Looks great: What's the status of Trello integration/apps (there is/was a freshplug for it, but the steps for installing it just looked too long and error prone).

Re: Michal Orman's Personal Blog - Run Rubocop Against Modified Files

timdiggins — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 11:40:20 -0000

Great blog post -- it got me started thinking about this. I've tweaked your suggestion and have the following:

before commiting:

git ls-files -m | xargs ls -1 2>/dev/null | grep '\.rb$' | xargs rubocop

before pushing:

git diff-tree -r --no-commit-id --name-only master@\{u\} head | xargs ls -1 2>/dev/null | grep '\.rb$' | xargs rubocop

See http://www.red56.uk/2017/03... for my full writeup

Re: iOS SDK Introduction | Boxcar Push Service

timdiggins — Wed, 24 May 2017 07:23:19 -0000

Hey Boxcar -- you need to fix the links for iOS sdks -- it looks like v1.1 is the latest from some places (sub head, footer) but you can only download v2.0.x currently. Really confusing. Also it would be good to make clear when v1.1 was retired, and when if it is currently supported...

Re: Introduction to ActiveRecord and ActiveModel Attributes API - Karol Galanciak - Ruby on Rails and Ember.js consultant

timdiggins — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 05:26:44 -0000

Nice article Karol -- have you got a reference to any discussion (issue/PR/...) of when / if ActiveModel will also have the Attributes API in rails core? (obviously we have your gem until then).