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October 2011
30
Five Ways to Speed Up Your Database-Backed Rails Test Suite
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June 2011
28
Some thoughts on RubyConf India 2011
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19
Everyone's an Idiot Some of the Time
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March 2011
29
When to use RSpec, when to use Cucumber
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25
Microsoft technology isn't what killed MySpace
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February 2011
27
Arguments In And About Ruby
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November 2009
22
Slides for my talk on construction techniques for internal DSLs
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17
Headphones and hand grenades
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September 2009
21
Pair Programming Is For Everyone: A Rebuttal
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June 2009
9
Awsymandias, or, An ode to cloud computing
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May 2009
2
Mocking in ISpec: A first pass
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1
RailsConftroversy
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April 2009
30
Blog syndication should be working again
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9
Destructuring Macros in Ioke
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9
HTML format spec runner now in Ioke/ISpec
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9
Why do type checks in dynamic code smell?
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March 2009
30
Mansions of cards: Osinki, CDOs, and the role of software
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26
Code comments, alias_method_chain, extensions, and the importance of expressing intent
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24
An introduction to mocking and stubbing in Ruby
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23
What the Rails Hosting survey says about the Ruby on Rails community
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16
Announcing the release of ResourceFull 0.7.1
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4
Onewaysweet: a way to track conversations
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February 2009
9
Do unit tests find bugs?
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2
Ioke mocking, Mocha as exemplar
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January 2009
29
Refactoring A Strange Codebase
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26
The Ioke programming language
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December 2008
12
The Way I Pair
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November 2008
23
Zed Shaw: The Simplest Possible Explanation
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August 2008
28
Make Lotus 8.5 Pretty After Upgrading
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28
Rails and REST: ActiveResource doesn't play nice with domain-driven resource identifiers
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26
The difference between commentary and conversation
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24
Rails and REST: Don't use auto-incremented database IDs as your resource identifier
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21
Rails and REST: A reference to commonly-used HTTP status codes and their use in REST APIs
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21
Rails and REST: Nested XML and the Law of Demeter
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14
I'm Not Sure That Word Means What You Think It Means
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2
The weirdest code I've seen recently
personal
July 2008
20
GitHub, briefly
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19
Marketing Ruby
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10
Somebody Else's Code
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May 2008
29
Speeding up ActiveResource
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28
Six Months with NetBeans on Rails: A Retrospective
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8
Out of Hibernation
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June 2007
11
Give Camino another look
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11
Slides and video from last month's Handshake presentation
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May 2007
16
On IBM and patents
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13
You can take the software company out of the jungle
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11
Benchmarking Handshake
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6
Career announcement: I'm joining ThoughtWorks
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2
The power of text
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2
I realize that this constitutes a flurry of activity
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2
Handshake at Boston.rb
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1
Handshake 0.2.1 Released
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April 2007
22
They what said it best
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16
This is not a free speech issue
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13
Chicago: in fashion
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11
And you thought you knew a tea
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9
A word on Joshua Bell and the Washington Post
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7
Marketing Community-Based Open Source Languages
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6
Redux
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4
Well, I'm here
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3
Will people pay $.30 extra for high-quality DRM-free music?
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1
Comment paradise lost
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March 2007
29
Way over yonder in the minor key
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28
Like pouring cold water on A List Apart
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25
Handshake released as a gem
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23
Inanity in the presence of kittens
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20
Kitten break
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20
Handshake vs. ruby-contract
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19
Let's make a deal: Handshake, a contract system for Ruby
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13
Meet RubySearch!
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13
Sick of Courier New?
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12
Waitin' for the spam to come rolling in
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11
Three hundred morons
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11
Scheree Schrager has a kitty!
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11
Aaron Leans On PISA
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9
Funditry with Puppies
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9
Funditry with Punditry
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9
Shocker: FBI abused PATRIOT act
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8
RadRails developers pass it off
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7
I have a homepage!
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7
While I have your attention
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7
Fun with hosts, virtual and otherwise
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7
The obligatory welcome-to-my-blog post
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