Joanna Walker

You Will Never Get There - 30DB #2

The title of this post is a bit pessimistic, but the topic I wanted to talk about today is actually about positive attitude and dealing with perfectionism. I was going to write about something else today, unfortunately I made a newbie mistake of updating my theme without making a backup.

Hello 2013 - 30DB #1

It’s that time of the year again, when everyone sets goals and makes New Year’s resolutions. Well, this year I’ve decided to revive my old blogging habits. But don’t worry, I’m not going to be writing about the food I ate for breakfast (I’ve

30 Days of Blogging

Everyone likes a challenge, right? The 30 day challenges (or longer…) seem to be all the rage now. They are a great way to give some focus to your writing and if followed properly encourage a more or less regular posting schedule. Exactly what I need after my quite long

Text file busy - db/test.sqlite3

Sometimes things are just too obvious… When trying to setup the test database for my new rails app I kept getting stuck with this error message: <b>$ rake db:test:prepare</b> rake aborted! Text file busy - db/test.sqlite3 Tasks: TOP => db:test:

Quick fix for the Social Counter Widget plugin

I’ve been doing some charity work recently and as they will have a social presence the blog was in need of some social media buttons. I thought the Social Counter Widget plugin looked quite nice (after the slightly prettier Social Impact Widget decided to just error when I did

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