Hi, I'm Damian...

Damian Nicholson Welcome to my blog! I work at Orange Bus as a web-developer and have been building websites for around a year now. When I'm not glued to a computer screen I like to see live bands, read and play my guitar. Want to learn more?

05 February 2009 ~ Comments Off

My thoughts on Ruby, Rails and where I got started

Since I was quite late to jump on the Rails bandwagon, I thought I’d share my experiences upto this point in time. “They say” learning Ruby first really lightens the load when learning Rails, consequently that’s what I set out to do in the late stages of 2008. This however, was not my first encounter [...]

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29 January 2009 ~ Comments Off

Google Quick Search Box

Like a lot people who own a mac, when this announcement came out, I feverishly downloaded the Google Quick Search Box.

Being a regular Quicksilver user for quite some time now, I was eager to see what the big G-Man could bring to the table. My initial impressions can be summed up in one word…SLOW!
As mentioned [...]

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23 January 2009 ~ Comments Off

Setting Your Git Up

Whilst building this blog, I was also trying out git to manage my solutions to Project Euler and host them on github. Consequently when I got bored of solving Euler’s problems, using git for version control for this thing seemed to be the next logical step.
I had read about making a Capistrano recipe to checkout [...]

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13 January 2009 ~ Comments Off

My Setup

In light of the Alex Payne’s and John Nunemaker’s recent posts on their setups, I thought I’d share my own. Mainly because I find them interesting reads, and I’m generally able to try out a new app or two that I was previously unaware of.
Hardware
I use a 15″ Macbook Pro that I purchased from ebay [...]

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24 December 2008 ~ Comments Off

Hello World!

As you can see, I finally started my new blog!
It’s a bit bare at the moment, however I’ll gradually update it over time. That’s one of the great things about not being tied to the more mainstream blogging engines – since I built this thing from scratch in Ruby on Rails, I can customise it [...]

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