James Brooks

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Entries for August, 2008

Hush CMS

Today I began development on a in-house content management system (dubbed Hush CMS), a Ruby on Rails plugin to extend a rails application with CMS functionality (both static [pages] and dynamic [news, blog posts]) as unobtrusively as possible to the application.
So far I’ve got a GitHub Repository setup with some initial code in. At the [...]

My git workflow

Recently I’ve been trying to get my head around git, I think my head has been tainted by excess subversion usage. Thanks to the help of close friend Joel Stanley I’ve got to the stage where I’m fairly happy with how I can use git to accommodate my workflow with multiple developers.
The following workflow is what I use at [...]

Getting around to it

Writing on a blog was always going to be one of those things I was going to get around to it, but I never did because I didn’t think I found anything that warrented a decent sized post. I think I’m going to have to bite the bullet and just post the damn things without [...]