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API Developer of the Year - Xero
A big thank you to the guys at Xero for awarding me API Developer of the Year for my work on Xeroizer. I have been a big fan of Xero and its community for a couple of years now and it's great to be able to give back…
16 FEBRUARY 2011Xeroizer now installable with gem
A minor update to the Xeroizer library, it is now installable with plain-old rubygems. To install the latest alpha release: gem install xeroizer Please feel free to try it out and provide feedback through github.
14 FEBRUARY 2011Xeorizer Updated to Xero API V2.06
Well, that was quicker than I expected. Xeroizer has now been updated to support the Xero API V2.06 including: - Manual journal create/update/view (can only create draft invoices for now) - Inventory items…
22 DECEMBER 2010Xeroizer ruby library
Given that Xero (cue the hyperbole about how Xero is great) has just updated their development API and they are planning to do this much more in the future, I have taken this opportunity to create my own ruby-based…
2 DECEMBER 2010Everyone is a programmer
After reading this article I wrote this article with one mouse click I realised that the requirement for writing code is becoming more and more important to professions other than software development. This idea is…
13 OCTOBER 2009yUML makes UML fun?
Thankfully, due to the way I work and the 'clients' I work for I have few requirements to diagramme the applications I work on. However, there is the odd occassion where I need to create documentation for less (or…
14 AUGUST 2009Xero is greater than the rest
Well, that title definitely sounds like a marketing introduction but I swear, I have no affiliation with Xero apart from thinking that they have some of the best SME accounting software that I've come across. Being…
1 OCTOBER 2007iPhone and iPod Touch User-Agent HTTP Header
I have had the opportunity to recently get my hands on an iPod Touch specifically to do web-development to work with it's fully-featured Safari web browser. These applications need specialised formatting for these…
15 FEBRUARY 2007Add all non-versioned controlled files to the subversion repository
Just wrote a small one-liner to add all non-version controlled files in the current path and down to a subversion repository without any unecessary warning messages or errors. I have only tested this on Cygwin so far,…
13 FEBRUARY 2007TIBCO General Interface
With all the work I've been doing with Ruby on Rails recently, I haven't given much thought to the advancements being made for web-based application development. However, yesterday I stumbled across TIBCO's General…
9 NOVEMBER 2006Javascript Graphing
I recently had a requirement to create a proof-of-concept "what-if" calculator for a new product I'm involved in which will launch in the first quarter of next year. Now, I prefer to write web-based applications because…
11 JULY 2006Just Ask!
Well, it seems that if you wait... just long enough, you may just get what you wished for. I was just finishing my implementation of a scalable push solution for real-time web-based applications when I was asked to…
5 MAY 2006Efficiency of HTTP Push Vs Pull
I'm working on a new application (StaffLocation.com) that requires the ability to stream live data from a server to the client web application via JavaScript. There are two methods that I could approach this. The first…