There’s a skype chat I’m on that discusses community currencies, that recently was trying to find “the ultimate elevator pitch” for community currencies. This is a very reasonable request as all of us working in this area are frequently asked to describe what we are up to succinctly. Here’s my post to that chat in […]
Author: zippy
rails capistrano deploy script OS X to Ubuntu
Ok, so in a previous post I described the rabit-hole which is switching to rails. Below’s my capistrano deploy script which solves a number of problems: The production server needs a mongrel cluster configuration file added. Deployment requires restarting the mongrel cluster. On Ubuntu the database.yaml spec has to be modified to because you need […]
The Economics of Innocent Fraud, John Kenneth Galbraith, 2004
You can read this short book in an hour, but you’ll be thinking about it for much longer. Galbraith, a man of impeccable credentials, points out some of the unspoken (by mainstream culture) truths of our times: “The free-market system” is the meaningless replacement term for what capitalism has become, and what should truthfully be […]
A “list items won’t wrap” Firefox css fix!
The last few days working on the openmoney.info website, I’ve had a major hassle dealing with what appears to be a bug in the html renderer in Firefox. The issue is that in Firefox, text in a list item won’t wrap around a right floated image; like this: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing […]
down the rails rabbit hole
The last month has been quite a trip down the rabbit hole into the new reality of ruby on rails! The promise of a powerful and well designed web application framework was just too much for me to resist, so I decided to leave my own yawaf framework behind (though it has certainly served me […]
SnapMail on Seth Godin’s Blog
So marketing blogger Seth Godin has a mention of SnapMail in the same breath as File Maker Pro on his blog. It’s nice that my humble little program is in such august company, though the context is a bit sad. What’s so odd is how SnapMail was created before the Internet was at all a […]
Recent Reading List
A while back I thought I would take on the discipline of posting a short essay on each book I read. I haven’t done that, but here is a list of my recent reading, with one or two sentences for each. Goatwalking, Jim Corbett: Astounding analysis of the relationship of people to society and how […]