Who am I?

I’m Jamie van Dyke, a freelance Ruby developer. I've been doing web application development and infrastructure for over 6 years. I'm half British and half Dutch, I live in the North of England and I'm in my early thirties.

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Engine Yard AppCloud Experiences

20 July 2010

I’ve recently been working for a client deploying them to the Engine Yard AppCloud, there were ups and downs. I summarise them here.

Let's talk about me

15 April 2010

Where have I been, what have I been up to? I’ve been working as the Chief Techie for Venturian Media Ltd., who bought boxedup. I’ve been doing some Engine Yard cloud migrations and planning an interesting system that manages the affiliate system on the backend. This blog post is basically an answer to all the requests for a CV/resumé now that I’m available for work.

Local hostnames the easy way

08 February 2010

The quickest and easiest way to manage to manage your local hostnames and aliases is to use the ghost RubyGem. Let me show you how.

Railties error?

08 February 2010

If you’re like me and you skip reading a gem’s README when you install the latest, you’ll be seriously sorry when you don’t for inherited_resources because it is Rails 3 only on the main branch now.

Web Development with SCM Basics

30 August 2009

I’m going to run through my basic solo web development pattern. How do I do BDD with Rails? This is where you’ll find out. This is part one in a series that nobody showed interest in so part two never came.