I’m a Ruby on Rails expert from Christchurch, New Zealand. What do I do? Technical director at Resolve Digital, a Christchurch Rails development company. Co-founded Off The Back, a New Zealand online shopping site. Founded Refinery, a Rails based CMS. Founded the Christchurch on Rails user group Tumblr (3.0; @dgjones)http://d-jones.com/<p>“The most expensive part of being a news reader these days is actually taking the time to read the news.” - idealog</p>http://d-jones.com/post/371303252http://d-jones.com/post/371303252Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:04:28 +1300<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kvwwgbiKav1qaomfpo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I have been playing with <a href="http://www.devtoaster.com/products/rev/">Rev2 for iPhone</a> from <a href="http://www.devtoaster.com">Dev Toaster</a>. Here’s our VW Polo accelerating to 35mph. The top line shows RPM while the bottom line shows MPH. Thanks to <a href="http://twitter.com/t0nyburton">Tony</a> for lending me the <a href="http://www.plxkiwi.com/kiwiwifi/hardware.html">Kiwi Wifi hardware</a>.</p>http://d-jones.com/post/322766862http://d-jones.com/post/322766862Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:57:00 +1300<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kvwtgbzrnJ1qaomfpo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Moa: Harvest - limited edition beer. Awesome aftertase of cherry (one of the ingredients).</p>http://d-jones.com/post/322663473http://d-jones.com/post/322663473Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:52:59 +1300beer“I stumbled across Refinery one day a couple of months ago and it looks amazing, something I was hoping to find years ago back in the days of classic ASP.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://core.je">Richard Delph</a></em>http://d-jones.com/post/322559655http://d-jones.com/post/322559655Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:49:16 +1300“I love refinery cms, what a piece of kit!!! Ruby Rocks!!!”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://xpress-media.co.uk/"><a href="http://xpress-media.co.uk/">http://xpress-media.co.uk/</a></a></em>http://d-jones.com/post/322556085http://d-jones.com/post/322556085Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:47:10 +1300<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kvuvenITrS1qaomfpo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Two things to make my life easier in 2010.</p> <p>A powered premium Logitech USB hub so I don’t have to plug 2 USB plugs into my laptop everyday.</p> <p>And a LaCie iamKey flash drive. It’s smaller than my largest key so I will take it with me and never say “hmm where is my flash drive”.</p>http://d-jones.com/post/320766450http://d-jones.com/post/320766450Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:39:58 +1300productivity