Head of Operations @ Uprise Digital

Wellington, New Zealand
Joined October 2009
They're one of NZ's best digital agencies and now @upriseNZ have climbed to 10th on our #nzfast50 list!
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Never been a better time to check out concurrent-ruby (github.com/ruby-concurrency/…) now that it's a rails dependency. It's an awesome toolkit
@TheQuestForever late to the party but your first podcast was great. Useful material without all the cynicism typical of 'sphere content
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TIL running out of entropy on servers is a thing
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jRuby boot times.. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
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Beard did not make it through the trough of disillusionment
The Docker tooling in @cloud66 is pretty awesome.
Replying to @ian
@ian +1. Taking VC is like getting the world’s worst boss: Shitload of opinions, undue level of influence, never actually shows up for work.
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If I had any at the moment; picking up Elixir seems like a pretty solid investment of spare time
You were born too soon You will live to see immortality But be too poor to afford it
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How had I not tried the hot choc at Scopa before? Molten chocolatey goodness
Anyone with e-newsletter/CMS knowledge looking for a part-time gig managing marketing content for a fashion brand? 5-10 hours per week
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Having an identity map in your client-side code is a huge asset when combined with server-initiated data syncing. Huge liability without.
Miss EmberConf? Watch us unveil Glimmer, the revolutionary new rendering engine, in our keynote: youtube.com/watch?&v=o12-90D…
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Whelp, maintaining a bunch of realtime-sync + hypermedia code on top of ember-data is not fun. Time to roll my own persistence layer I think