Some posts aren't really in the Ruby or Agile category. They are just little random posts on odd bits of tech.
Awareness of a new API in a business often comes from developers, rather than from the marketing or commercial side of the business. This grass roots traction is an important aspect of an API only business. If developers are becoming customers in that way, there must be a developer sales funnel.
Nesta CMS has recently introduced theme support, and I had recently spotted the penguin classics theme on tumblr. I thought I'd convert it.
A useful bit of command line foo, for getting useful information out of git log.
Using curl with the -I flag retrieves just the header information - handy for detecting the MIME type of a URL.
Avoiding Java heap space errors in the JVM with Maven and MAVEN_OPTS.