Gears Within Gears

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

November 2009

23 - Slides for my talk on construction techniques for internal DSLs posted in Professional
18 - Headphones and hand grenades posted in Professional

September 2009

22 - Pair Programming Is For Everyone: A Rebuttal posted in Professional

June 2009

9 - Awsymandias, or, An ode to cloud computing posted in Professional

May 2009

2 - Mocking in ISpec: A first pass posted in Professional
2 - RailsConftroversy posted in Professional
1 - Blog syndication should be working again posted in Personal

April 2009

10 - Destructuring Macros in Ioke posted in Professional
10 - HTML format spec runner now in Ioke/ISpec posted in Professional
9 - Why do type checks in dynamic code smell? posted in Professional

March 2009

30 - Mansions of cards: Osinki, CDOs, and the role of software posted in Professional
27 - Code comments, alias_method_chain, extensions, and the importance of expressing intent posted in Professional
25 - An introduction to mocking and stubbing in Ruby posted in Professional
23 - What the Rails Hosting survey says about the Ruby on Rails community posted in Professional
16 - Announcing the release of ResourceFull 0.7.1 posted in Professional
5 - Onewaysweet: a way to track conversations posted in Professional

February 2009

9 - Do unit tests find bugs? posted in Professional
3 - Ioke mocking, Mocha as exemplar posted in Professional

January 2009

30 - Refactoring A Strange Codebase posted in Professional
26 - The Ioke programming language posted in Professional

December 2008

13 - The Way I Pair posted in Professional

November 2008

23 - Zed Shaw: The Simplest Possible Explanation posted in Professional

August 2008

28 - Make Lotus 8.5 Pretty After Upgrading posted in Professional
28 - Rails and REST: ActiveResource doesn't play nice with domain-driven resource identifiers posted in Professional
27 - The difference between commentary and conversation posted in Professional
25 - Rails and REST: Don't use auto-incremented database IDs as your resource identifier posted in Professional
22 - Rails and REST: A reference to commonly-used HTTP status codes and their use in REST APIs posted in Professional
21 - Rails and REST: Nested XML and the Law of Demeter posted in Professional
15 - I'm Not Sure That Word Means What You Think It Means posted in Professional
2 - The weirdest code I've seen recently posted in Personal

July 2008

21 - GitHub, briefly posted in Professional
19 - Marketing Ruby posted in Professional
11 - Somebody Else's Code posted in Professional

May 2008

29 - Speeding up ActiveResource posted in Professional
29 - Six Months with NetBeans on Rails: A Retrospective posted in Professional
9 - Out of Hibernation posted in Professional

June 2007

12 - Give Camino another look posted in Professional
11 - Slides and video from last month's Handshake presentation posted in Professional

May 2007

17 - On IBM and patents posted in Professional
14 - You can take the software company out of the jungle posted in Personal
12 - Benchmarking Handshake posted in Professional
6 - Career announcement: I'm joining ThoughtWorks posted in Professional
3 - The power of text posted in Professional
3 - I realize that this constitutes a flurry of activity posted in Professional
2 - Handshake at Boston.rb posted in Professional
2 - Handshake 0.2.1 Released posted in Professional

April 2007

23 - They what said it best posted in Personal
17 - This is not a free speech issue posted in Personal
14 - Chicago: in fashion
12 - And you thought you knew a tea
10 - A word on Joshua Bell and the Washington Post
7 - Marketing Community-Based Open Source Languages
7 - Redux
5 - Well, I'm here
4 - Will people pay $.30 extra for high-quality DRM-free music?
2 - Comment paradise lost

March 2007

30 - Way over yonder in the minor key
29 - Like pouring cold water on A List Apart
26 - Handshake released as a gem
24 - Inanity in the presence of kittens
20 - Kitten break
20 - Handshake vs. ruby-contract
20 - Let's make a deal: Handshake, a contract system for Ruby
14 - Meet RubySearch!
14 - Sick of Courier New?
12 - Waitin' for the spam to come rolling in
12 - Three hundred morons
12 - Scheree Schrager has a kitty!
12 - Aaron Leans On PISA
10 - Funditry with Puppies
10 - Funditry with Punditry
10 - Shocker: FBI abused PATRIOT act
9 - RadRails developers pass it off
8 - I have a homepage!
8 - While I have your attention
8 - Fun with hosts, virtual and otherwise
7 - The obligatory welcome-to-my-blog post