March 19, 2012
A plea to companies to allow their development staff the opportunity and the time to refactor regularly.
March 7, 2012
Understanding ActiveRecord::Base.explain in the Rails 3.2 release
March 1, 2012
JavaScript doesn't have all the formatting niceties of other languages. Here's an elegant way to left pad numbers with zeroes.
February 24, 2012
Good developers are hard to find. What can you do to attract them to your organization?
February 16, 2012
Make search in Google Chrome even better by using shortcuts to targeting specific sites you want to search
February 3, 2012
How to simply set up your test environment to handle the Geocoder gem's calls to geocoding providers.
January 30, 2012
An overview of the usage and benefits of Ruby's Interactive CUI (ri)
January 22, 2012
My grandmother Edith Pauline Mullen wrote a rather lengthy letter shortly before her 50th wedding anniversary to my grandfather Silas Mullen.
January 17, 2012
Three simple guidelines for helping Rails developers determine if using an ActiveRecord callback is a good idea.
December 31, 2011
Move your notification callbacks out of the model and in to a decorator to simplify testsing and practice good OOP habits.
December 28, 2011
December 26, 2011
December 5, 2011
October 17, 2011
October 10, 2011
October 1, 2011
August 15, 2011
August 8, 2011
August 8, 2011
July 31, 2011