Rimu Atkinson

Organics Aotearoa New Zealand and Organic Products Exporters of New Zealand needed a CMS and member directory, and drupal was a perfect fit. Moxie did great things with the design side of the projects. Both the designs intentionally use some similar design elements, as they are related organisations.

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I've had a lot of work interviews or interview-type meetings in my life, but there have only been two or three which I felt really assessed me well, technically. I enjoyed those very much, because just by the questions they asked they demonstrated that they could understand any answer I could throw (back) at them. There was a sense that I was getting a fair trial, and so was everyone else.

"Where do you want to be in 5 years?" or "Give an example of a situation you handled well/badly" are too easy to have pat answers for.

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Today I ran a poll on the NZWEBDEV email list, and asked members to indicate which server side languages they regularly use in their work.

Results are below but you'll need to click on the image for a legible version.

 

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Argh I can't believe how long it took for me to track this one down. No one else on the internet had reported the problem before, so trusty ole google was no help. So I'm putting this one out there, to help others.

This error is caused when a file vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/values/unicode_tables.dat becomes corrupted. The easiest way that can happen is if while using FTP to upload your Rails app onto it's server, you are uploading the entire vendor/rails directory in ASCII mode. unicode_tables.dat contains binary data, which gets mangled when you upload using ASCII.

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Almost a year ago, I switched to Linux as my main development platform. It was difficult, but not as bad as I expected. Worth the effort, definitely.

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Pacificbizonline is a searchable database developed to provide an 'information gateway' to Pacific Islands' businesses and commercial contacts. The client who commissioned the project is the Pacific Cooperation Foundation.

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Had an 'interesting' day today, perhaps in part caused by confusion about the difference.

Some people don't clearly distinguish between the graphics / colours of a web site and the functionality.

I do the functionality. When an email gets sent, or your credit card gets billed, or when information you typed into a browser goes anywhere and later comes back somewhere else, that's my thing. I'm an engineer, or a plumber or perhaps on a good day, an architect.

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Moxie Design Group provides a number of services, one of which is a sustainable business consultancy. The Imagineering web site facilitates the process of sharing ideas and resources about sustainability between Moxie and their clients, and amongst the people in the client organisation by using a collaborative blog type structure. DesRead more

Every year in various locations around the country there is a large fund raising event to raise money for the Cancer Society. The event involves teams of people getting sponsored, and the Relay For Life web site makes it all possible.

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Momento NZ is a clone of the original Australian web site. It's functions are identical, my main task was deploying it in a new location and then patching up the multitude of issues that arose later.

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