So after ‘Fringe it appears I’m not the only Rubyist with a deep love of music. I love music, listening to it, making it hmm not so much (I can’t) - thus thought I’d blog about further adventures in audio-listening-land. I needed some replacements for my desktop system after a minor technical glitch, and have [...]
Read moreOne of the many plus factors about working from home is you can have the sweetest sounds throughout the day. Without the accompanied hearing loss of listening to Senns or Grados all day in an office.
Some Tannoy active monitors (Reveal 5a’s) graced my desk for the past year or so. Up until a crackle emanated [...]
Searching for an affordable freelancer/SOHO backup solution? I think I found one on the weekend. I use JungleDisk for offsite storage of *really* important stuff that I would quite literrally die if I lost, but in this day and age of huge media files, the need for vast amounts of reliable, fast, storage is present. [...]
Read moreOh the humanity of it all! On my way to work this morning I was stopped in my tracks by two Ariel Atoms parked outfront of an events place just round the corner. Instant parallel thought trains rocked through my mind, how the hell are they road legal in Canada ? and how the [...]
Read moreThe Golden Rule
Always isolate your speakers from whatever they’re sitting on (be it floor, bookshelf whatever). It’s just the golden rule in life. You must do it. Well, I built this new desk**, and completely forgot the rule, I was just so happy to have somewhere for these puppies to sit on. I happened upon [...]
And now for something completely different. Old news if you already have heard about it…
Quite a few years ago, like many a young IT guy, I had a too little responsibilities and too little common sense, which resulted in a daily driven, highly modified, 450HP Twin Turbo 300ZX gracing my garage - including no less [...]
Tannoy nearfield active monitors. Let’s face it churning through documentation or code, can sometimes be mind numbing, no matter how much delegation you do you still have to deal with it and the only way to keep your mind in check, and sometimes to speed things along is to be bathed in your favourite music.
Now [...]
Rowan is a Product Development Manager, specialising in architecting, developing and putting web applications into production - in particular Ruby on Rails based apps. He lives in Toronto, Canada but speaks in a funny accent as he's originally from New Zealand. He's been working in the software and web business for over a decade. This blog covers Web Application development and deployment in the real world, dealing with topics from business fundamentals to Ruby on Rails, Merb, PHP, Flex, MySQL, Apache and more.
