Archive - Jason Stirk's Blog

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Hi! Welcome to the personal blog of Jason Stirk (Griffin) - a slightly unhinged web application developer living in Lismore, NSW (yes, that's in Australia).

I am co-founder of Aurora Software, where I do a lot of Ruby on Rails Development.

I also run Achernar Solutions, which is my freelance gig providing Linux support, and the occasional bit of Rails work.

These days I tend to work mainly with Ruby and Ruby on Rails, although I've also also done my fair share of work with PHP, and administering various flavours of Linux servers.

Development Services

Find out about our awesome Ruby on Rails work with Aurora Software.

Recently, On The Blog

Vim Tricks for Ruby and Rails Developers 09Jun2009
The New Adventures of Aurora Software 29Mar2009
Dynamic Routes in Rails Redux 14Aug2008
Ruby Enterprise Edition Gem Install Script 10Jun2008
Thoughts and Observations on ICT in Education 28May2008
Maybe I Should Be a Plumber? 04Apr2008
SwitchPipe for Fun and Profit 06Mar2008
RadiantCMS Extensions Load Order GOTCHA 04Feb2008

or, view the full archive of posts.

Pieces of Me

Seems I'm spread all over the net these days...

Current Projects

These are some of the projects that I'm currently involved with - either as a business venture, or as a freelancer.

Link Love

Here are a few trendy folks that I know, or have worked with.

Syndicate

It was an awesome game, but that's not what I meant! I meant FEEDS! Of the RSS and ATOM flavours! Get them while they're still meaty!

Post Archive

Here are all of the posts made on this site - newest at top, down to oldest and saggiest.

Vim Tricks for Ruby and Rails Developers 09Jun2009
The New Adventures of Aurora Software 29Mar2009
Dynamic Routes in Rails Redux 14Aug2008
Ruby Enterprise Edition Gem Install Script 10Jun2008
Thoughts and Observations on ICT in Education 28May2008
Maybe I Should Be a Plumber? 04Apr2008
SwitchPipe for Fun and Profit 06Mar2008
RadiantCMS Extensions Load Order GOTCHA 04Feb2008
Every Era Has an End 01Feb2008
Scaremongering About Australia's Proposed Filters 09Jan2008
Australia's Proposed World Class Broadband? 02Jan2008
Musings on Pure Democracy After the Election 27Nov2007
My Late Night Productivity Myth 26Nov2007
The Human Mind and Other Inane Ramblings 19Nov2007
Ruby Net::HTTP and Content Encoding : http_encoding_helper 04Nov2007
Introducing Achernar Solutions 02Nov2007
pal: Multiuser Wrapper for Mongrel, Release 1.0.2 01Mar2007
Net::HTTP, Timeout::Error and You 19Feb2007
WST DST Timezone Changes for *nix 28Nov2006
Getting Up An Hour Earlier!?!? Damn Timezones!!! 23Nov2006
Building A Web-App 103:: Managing Your Project 08Aug2006
Building A Web-App 102:: Getting Your Code On 28Jul2006
Building A Web-App 101 20Jul2006
You Want Me To Examine What Now? 12Jul2006
PCRE Alternative Branch GOTCHA 11Jul2006
Free As In Beer 10Jul2006
SpamAssassin, rewrite_header and Friends 16Jan2006
Where All The Love Be At?!?! 05Dec2005
Microsoft Dynamic Partition Hell 14Sep2005
At long last! 29Aug2005
errno_ :: photoblog 20Jul2005
Dynamic Routes in Ruby On Rails 23Jun2005
Office 2003 (Including the Clone Wars) 17Jun2005
Musical Baton 26May2005
IXR_Library 1.7.1 Release 26May2005
Searching for Vulnerabilities 04May2005
Static vs. Dynamic Typing 05Apr2005
Initial Release of Firefox del.icio.us Search Plugin 08Mar2005
Initial Release of RailsVH 08Mar2005
Mozilla to Disable IDN Support 16Feb2005
How VeriSign Could Stop Drive-By Downloads 14Feb2005
Ducking and Dodging with Rails 11Feb2005
XML as a configuration medium 02Feb2005
The Kleptones - A Night At The Hip-Hopera 31Jan2005
Back Online 25Jan2005
Packing Up 14Jan2005
Toy for Today : Newsmap 13Jan2005
Linux technical pleasures 12Jan2005
I _hate_ public holidays 04Jan2005
Rainbow Ninja 30Dec2004
T'was the night before Christmas 25Dec2004
Ruby and RFC2822 after midnight 21Dec2004
Call a spade a... uh... piece of crap? 18Dec2004
Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide 18Dec2004
Identifying text nodes with MSXML 18Dec2004
del.icio.us tools 11Dec2004
Web Application Development and Standards 09Dec2004
Musings - 8th December 2004 08Dec2004
Thunderbird 1.0 Released 07Dec2004
SANS, Sunburn and Security 07Dec2004
Blatant Propaganda 03Dec2004
Metadata CMS 03Dec2004
Sunday == First Day of the Working Week 28Nov2004
Take off every Pingback! 27Nov2004
Comments Problems 27Nov2004
Pingbacks 26Nov2004
Blogroll and a small chips kthx 24Nov2004
Griffin, of ER 23Nov2004
Post-Mozparty2 21Nov2004
Pre-Mozparty2 20Nov2004
Hilighting Fragments with JavaScript 14Nov2004
Maybe not so funny... 11Nov2004
Blogtrawl : XHTML, Flash, and Standards Compliance 03Nov2004
New "Hex" Theme 02Nov2004
Murphy's Law Calculator 27Oct2004
mozparty2: It's 1.0 time! 27Oct2004
Comments: Mk. I 24Oct2004
The Promised Features 23Oct2004
When method names attack! 21Oct2004
Thunderstorm + Computers == FUN! 21Oct2004
Anchors 101: Well nobody told me! 20Oct2004
Dev almost complete! 18Oct2004
JavaScript vs. Usability 10Oct2004
First Post! 08Oct2004