Jarrod (a 30×500 member) just launched his ebook, Bootstrapping Design. I had the privilege to read his early drafts and I highly recommend it for developers and product builders. Bootstrapping Design was written at the perfect time for me. One of the guiding principles I’m building into Chirk HR is that software should be easy …
Chirk HR – Launching Soon
I have great news today. After months of research and development I’m happy to unveil a new product I’ve been working on. Chirk HR is a web application for human resource professionals to find and hire better applicants. Using the pool of applicants that every job posting generates, Chirk HR will let HR reuse the …
Organizing Rake Using Namespaces
I use Rake to automate a lot of tasks, in my plugins and on my development systems. A good technique to learn is to organize and group your tasks using Rake namespaces. Example: desc "Download missing plugins from Github" task :plugins do # .. end namespace :plugins do desc "Fetch latest revisions" task :fetch …
What I’m excited about with ChiliProject 3.0.0
On February 6th ChiliProject 3.0.0 was released. This marks the third major release for ChiliProject and the stabilization of the past 6 months of development. The 3.0 series is my favorite release so far. It finally brings in some features that I’ve been wanting to use for at least 4 years. The full release details …
Redmine Theme – Basic Themes – Images and JavaScript
When I last wrote about Redmine themes I showed how to customize the basic styles by overriding the CSS. Basic themes also support a few other features in addition to CSS. Images Most themes will use images as part of the design. This is pretty easy to do because the entire theme is located in …