Software developer and consultant based in Plymouth, UK.
Founder of Plymouth Software.
@cblunt

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  1. 26 Jan 2024 › Trying Note to Self App
  2. 11 Jan 2024 › City Conversations with Devon and Plymouth Chamber of Commerce at moment
  3. 07 Jan 2024 › Winter Sunday walk across Dartmoor moment
  4. 01 Jan 2024 › Happy New Year - 2024 Edition!
  1. 01 Jan 2023 › Happy New Year
  1. 27 Dec 2022 › Getting Ready for Goals
  2. 26 Dec 2022 › Indecision
  3. 24 Dec 2022 › 100 Days of Writing
  4. 23 Dec 2022 › Digital Clutter
  5. 22 Dec 2022 › Outdoors
  6. 21 Dec 2022 › Notes Apps and Data Portability
  7. 20 Dec 2022 › On StandardNotes and Listed
  1. 11 Dec 2021 › Moving to Blot
  2. 30 Nov 2021 › 1000 Days of Calm
  1. 22 Jul 2020 › Rails and React: Fixing 'Module not found' errors for JSX files
  1. 22 Dec 2019 › Using MariaDB / MySQL Service Containers Azure in Devops Pipeline
  2. 03 May 2019 › The Business of Software at FutureSync 2019
  3. 05 Jan 2019 › 2018: A Value Pricing Year in Review
  1. 05 Oct 2018 › Rails 5: Matching Asset URLs in Feature Specs
  2. 03 Oct 2018 › Rails on Docker: How to Share Containers Across Multiple Projects
  3. 23 Aug 2018 › Rails on Docker: Using an Entrypoint File in your Containers
  4. 14 Aug 2018 › Business Tools: How to get started with ConvertKit for Email Automation
  5. 26 Jul 2018 › Rails on Docker: Using Rails Encrypted Credentials with Docker
  6. 21 Mar 2018 › Value Pricing Mistakes (and what I’ve learned from them)
  7. 21 Mar 2018 › Should You Track Your Time When Value Pricing?
  8. 12 Mar 2018 › Ruby on Rails: 5 Checks to Make Before Launching Your App
  9. 19 Feb 2018 › Ruby on Rails: Running Tests with Guard and Docker
  1. 24 Nov 2017 › Rails on Docker: Using Yarn to Manage Frontend Assets
  2. 09 Sep 2017 › Rails on Docker: Using Docker Compose with Your Ruby on Rails Apps
  3. 11 Aug 2017 › Conquering the Fear of a Fixed Price
  4. 07 Jul 2017 › Rails on Docker: Getting Started with Docker and Ruby on Rails
  5. 03 Jul 2017 › 3 Steps to Start Value Pricing
  6. 20 Jun 2017 › Why You Should Stop Charging for Your Time
  7. 19 May 2017 › How to Fix Missing SD Card on Android Emulator
  8. 07 May 2017 › How to Pass Data From Rails to Javascript / Coffeescript
  9. 27 Apr 2017 › 3 Ways to Keep Your Ruby on Rails Apps Healthy
  10. 25 Jan 2017 › A Year of Value Pricing
  1. 16 Nov 2016 › Scheduling and Capacity Planning with Value Pricing
  2. 20 Jul 2016 › Rails on Docker: Quickly Create or Update Your Gemfile.lock
  3. 10 Jun 2016 › The Value Conversation
  4. 30 Mar 2016 › Value First, Price Last
  5. 08 Mar 2016 › Value Pricing Progress Update March 2016
  6. 29 Feb 2016 › Rails: Generating Polymorphic URLs when Model name does not match Route
  7. 22 Feb 2016 › The Value of a Fixed Fee
  1. 04 Dec 2015 › Android: Toggling Your App's Theme
  2. 08 Sep 2015 › Using TinyMCE Content CSS with Rails Asset Pipeline
  1. 04 Sep 2014 › Rails: Rendering Dynamic SVG Images in respond_to
  2. 13 Aug 2014 › Android: Consuming a Remote JSON API with Volley
  3. 01 May 2014 › Android: Getting Started with Volley
  4. 22 Jan 2014 › Android: Using Gradle
  1. 22 May 2013 › Android: Getting Started with Databases and ContentProviders Part 1
  2. 06 Jan 2013 › Rails 3: Storing Model Metadata Attributes with ActiveRecord::Store
  1. 31 Dec 2012 › Welcoming 2013 - Goals for the New Year
  2. 01 May 2012 › Running Plymouth Half Marathon - Let's Raise £1k for Macmillan Cancer Support
  1. 04 Oct 2011 › Testing Rendered Views with RSpec2, Capybara and Rails 3.
  2. 01 Oct 2011 › Moving to Posterous
  3. 23 Jun 2011 › Android: How to test Local Web Apps on an Emulated Device (AVD)
  4. 25 May 2011 › Thoughts: On Agile Project Estimating and Pricing
  5. 10 May 2011 › Resource: Google Nexus-S Graphic for Inkscape (SVG / XCF)
  6. 07 Apr 2011 › Rails 3: How to Autoload and Autorequire your Custom Library Code
  7. 02 Apr 2011 › Ubuntu 11.04 Beta - How to test Unity in VirtualBox 4
  8. 01 Mar 2011 › Android: Spinner-Like UI for Selecting Multiple Options
  9. 24 Feb 2011 › Plymouth Half Marathon: Raising Funds for Jeremiah's Journey
  10. 24 Jan 2011 › Introducing Monthly: Pay-Monthly Web Site Design and Development
  11. 01 Jan 2011 › Welcoming 2011
  1. 14 Dec 2010 › Rails 3: How to Dynamically Build Complex Queries with Composed Scopes
  2. 05 Dec 2010 › Plymouth Santa Fun Run
  3. 28 Nov 2010 › Plymouth Software Case Study: Mark Stocks (Vistas de Murcia)
  4. 20 Nov 2010 › Clarity: An internal app for managing leads, clients, and projects.
  5. 27 Oct 2010 › Business Update October 2010
  6. 15 Oct 2010 › Rails 3: How to Simulate Paperclip Attachments With FactoryGirl
  7. 04 Oct 2010 › Lightweight Web Apps: Getting Started With Sinatra
  8. 02 Oct 2010 › Amberleaf: Importing Domains Improved
  9. 29 Sep 2010 › Simplifying Your Hosting Business: Why I Built Amberleaf
  10. 22 Sep 2010 › Business Startup Week 9: From Moo Cards to TestUnit
  11. 13 Sep 2010 › Business Startup Week 8: Amberleaf's New Look
  12. 05 Sep 2010 › Business Startup Week 7: Use your own software
  13. 01 Sep 2010 › Is your sign up process pushing customers away?
  14. 28 Aug 2010 › Business Startup Week 6: Outlime and a Crash Course in Marketing
  15. 24 Aug 2010 › Introducing Outlime: Rapid Sketching for Android
  16. 22 Aug 2010 › Business Startup Week 5: A New Look
  17. 14 Aug 2010 › Business Startup Week 4: Moo Cards and Rails 3
  18. 12 Aug 2010 › Android: Double Taps on a MapView with Overlays
  19. 07 Aug 2010 › Business Startup Week 3: Android
  20. 31 Jul 2010 › Business Startup Week 2: Launch
  21. 26 Jul 2010 › Business Startup Week 1: Plymouth Software
  22. 22 Jul 2010 › Short notes on a Long Trip
  23. 01 Apr 2010 › Lanyon: An Email and Web Interface to Jekyll
  24. 17 Mar 2010 › Amberleaf: Pricing Announced
  25. 11 Mar 2010 › Amberleaf Update: Bill Tracking for Domains and Hosting
  26. 05 Mar 2010 › Run Rails 3 Apps on Passenger
  27. 03 Mar 2010 › Building apps with Rails 3, RSpec, FactoryGirl and Mocha.
  28. 16 Feb 2010 › Changed Permalinks and More Blog Tweaks
  29. 07 Feb 2010 › Switching to Jekyll
  30. 04 Jan 2010 › Amberleaf: Manage Your Domains & Hosting - Public Beta Now Open.
  31. 03 Jan 2010 › Just Married