John Grimes
Blog URL http://johngrimes.info
Located London, London United Kingdom
Tags web, business, tech, ideas, opinion, tutorials, reviews, books, social media
Ideas, opinion, tutorials and reviews from a web business enthusiast living in London.
Latest Blog Posts
- Cause and effect analytics for social media on Jun 8, 2009 in Ideas analytics blogging seo social media twitter
For some people, social media is almost like a sport. How many followers can you get? How many subscribers can you get? For other people, social media is their livelihood - it is how they put food on the table. One thing that I think a lot of peo...
- Country list in YAML format, countries.yml on May 28, 2009 in Tutorials fixtures plugins rake ruby on rails yaml
I made myself a list of countries in YAML format for use in a Rails app today. Here it is: countries.yml You can put this file into a directory called db/seed_data and then set up a rake task to load it into your database. Put this into the file...
- XHTML and CSS validation on Rails on May 26, 2009 in Tutorials automation ruby on rails standards testing
You can build XHTML and CSS validation right into your Ruby on Rails Rspec tests - thanks to a plugin called be_valid_asset. Combine this with autotest and voila - you can be alerted the moment you change something in the view code that breaks your...
- Analytics for your content contributors on May 24, 2009 in Ideas analytics google analytics social media startup widgets
What do you think about this idea - create a tool that makes it dead-easy for owners of user content-driven websites to drop-in the ability for users to access detailed analytics about the content that they have created. I think that narcissistic s...
- Review: Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath on May 13, 2009 in Book Reviews books business marketing psychology reviews
What if you had the power to get on Twitter and create a trending topic at will? What if you knew the secret to making people connect with your ideas, remember them and pass them on to their friends? Would you use your powers for good or evil?
- What comes after free? on May 8, 2009 in Thinking business business models trends web
I have just been reading a post off Seth Godin’s blog: Too much free. As the market for free gets more crowded, we’ll see more and more people promoting their free products, stuff that people used to have pay for. A complete shift from ‘y...
- Automatic rails testing with autotest on May 6, 2009 in Tutorials automation rubyonrails testing web
I found a really good way to speed up your workflow: a library called autotest that automatically (and intelligently) triggers the tests in your Ruby on Rails project whenever it detects files that are modified. This is great because it means that...
