Articles

The Need to Refactor

March 19, 2012

A plea to companies to allow their development staff the opportunity and the time to refactor regularly.


Understanding ActiveRecord::Base.explain in Rails 3.2

March 7, 2012

Understanding ActiveRecord::Base.explain in the Rails 3.2 release


Left Pad Zeroes in JavaScript

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.


Advice on Attracting Good Developers

February 24, 2012

Good developers are hard to find. What can you do to attract them to your organization?


Power Up Search in Google Chrome

February 16, 2012

Make search in Google Chrome even better by using shortcuts to targeting specific sites you want to search


Testing Geocoder with RSpec and Cucumber

February 3, 2012

How to simply set up your test environment to handle the Geocoder gem's calls to geocoding providers.


Up and Running With Ruby Interactive (ri)

January 30, 2012

An overview of the usage and benefits of Ruby's Interactive CUI (ri)


A Letter From My Grandmother

January 22, 2012

My grandmother Edith Pauline Mullen wrote a rather lengthy letter shortly before her 50th wedding anniversary to my grandfather Silas Mullen.


Guidelines for Using ActiveRecord Callbacks

January 17, 2012

Three simple guidelines for helping Rails developers determine if using an ActiveRecord callback is a good idea.


Sending Notifications Using Decorators Instead of Callbacks

December 31, 2011

Move your notification callbacks out of the model and in to a decorator to simplify testsing and practice good OOP habits.


Hello, Octopress!

December 28, 2011


Use Capybara::add_selector to Simplify Finding Links

December 26, 2011


Tests are Pain

December 5, 2011


Test Driven Error Resolution

October 17, 2011


The System is Borken

October 10, 2011


Setting Up a Remote Git Repository

October 1, 2011


Three Simple Tips to Start Running Barefoot

August 15, 2011


MysqlDump with a Query Constraint

August 8, 2011


Authentication with RailsAdmin, Rails 3.1, and an Admin Model

August 8, 2011


FireFox's getCurrentPosition error_callback Problem

July 31, 2011


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