Greg Nesbitt

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Shopframe

This is a very early stage v.01 of what I’m hoping to make into a decent barebones framework for a webshop. I’m planning to build out the basic functionality in such a way that a coder with fairly basic ruby/rails/css/html skills can get a shop up and running pretty quickly and can spend their time getting it to look and feel the way they want it to, instead of coding the shopping cart and inventory management system. I’m not trying to compete with turnkey solutions like spree, but just provide a bit of a platform for people to be creative with their stores.

fair warning, I’m pretty new to web app programming, so a lot of things will take time, might not be secure, and may not adhere to “best practise”. Any helpful comments about security or refactoring will be appreciated, though.

First I was tackling the basic layout, as that was what seemed easier after a bit of a break from writing...

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What is it about Boston Legal that makes it special?

This question might seem a bit odd, but seeing an episode again for the first time in probably 2 years, it really struck me how special this series is.

The cultural and political issues that get tackled are somewhat dated now, but its portrayal of the complexity of right and wrong while tackling those issues makes the specific issue almost irrelevant. Not to the case, clearly, but to how things can be tackled from many different angles, and what’s right and what’s wrong will very nearly always depend on where you stand .

I’m not entirely sure what the point of writing this is, but I guess it’s something (and gets me in the habit of writing something more frequently)

I haven’t seen any other of David Kelley’s shows, but I’ll have to go back and have a look at some of them.

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Actually using my domain for something.

As I was reading some posts about how developers tend to have a lot of half baked ideas sitting in a text document on their hard drive, and the domains to go with them, it struck me that I was like that, but with only one domain. So this is the start of great things, I hope. At least I’m using the domain for something!

I hope to post about some of the programming ideas I have, and by doing so publicly, embarrass myself into actually launching (and maybe even completing) some of them.

Perhaps someone will find this post and actually hold me to it!

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