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2017

January

January 1, 2017 » SPEC: Rails App Autostaging

2016

December

December 31, 2016 » EXPERIMENT: Spec'g My Projects

November

November 23, 2016 » MacOS Sierra, Homebrew, and rbenv

2015

September

September 6, 2015 » How to get started with a Minecraft Server, Redux
September 5, 2015 » Compiling Spigot Minecraft Server for CentOS 7
September 5, 2015 » RIP Craftbukkit, Moving On

April

April 26, 2015 » Moving Your TypePad Blog To Jekyll: The Re-Translation
April 25, 2015 » Announcing the MTIF gem
April 19, 2015 » Moving Your Blog To Jekyll: The Translation
April 18, 2015 » Goodbye, Typepad; Hello, Github Pages

2013

April

April 12, 2013 » Setting Up A Minecraft Server For Kids, Part 1: Preparation

2012

March

March 26, 2012 » Bashing tcsh

2010

August

August 13, 2010 » Advanced YAML: Tricking Out Your database.yml

2009

October

October 15, 2009 » Live Blog: Comet & Other Browser Stuff
October 15, 2009 » Live Blog: Web Aggregation, What Works and What Doesn't

September

September 13, 2009 » Stepping Into BDD with Cucumber and WebRAT: Structuring the Work

August

August 18, 2009 » Generate the regex for a TLD hostname from Perl

July

July 7, 2009 » Gmail no longer beta? True dat.

June

June 25, 2009 » Michael Jackson's Obit via Wordle
June 23, 2009 » LiveBlog: 10+ Deploys A Day: Dev and Ops at Flickr
June 23, 2009 » LiveBlog: Q&A with Twitter's John Adams
June 23, 2009 » LiveBlog: PageSpeed
June 23, 2009 » LiveBlog: 2 Years Later, Loving and Hating the Cloud
June 23, 2009 » LiveBlog: Fixing Twitter
June 23, 2009 » LiveBlog: Next Web Challenges: It's Still All About UX
June 23, 2009 » LiveBlog: The User and Business Impact of Server Delays, Additional Bytes, and HTTP Chunking in Web Search
June 23, 2009 » LiveBlog: After the Click
June 23, 2009 » LiveBlog: Surviving the 2008 Elections at DailyKos.com
June 22, 2009 » LiveBlog: Hadoop Operations
June 22, 2009 » LiveBlog: Intro to Managed Infrastructure with Puppet
June 22, 2009 » LiveBlog: Death of a Web Server
June 14, 2009 » Got the "can't activate" Gem::Exception Blues? gem cleanup!
June 10, 2009 » Cucumber, Webrat ... Who Names These Things?
June 3, 2009 » Generating with Ruby OFF Rails

May

May 3, 2009 » Re-finding my rubyligion ...

January

January 29, 2009 » Seven Ways To Approach An Issue

2008

September

September 29, 2008 » The Values Driving My Value-Driven Life
September 3, 2008 » Mozilla's TraceMonkey Avoids Trampling
September 1, 2008 » Google Chrome: The Next Big Thing?

August

August 31, 2008 » Reflections on moderated blog comments
August 20, 2008 » Reports of the Business Card's Death Are Greatly Exaggerated, or why bzCards != biz cards
August 12, 2008 » Cuzillion: 'cuz there's a zillion pages to check
August 12, 2008 » Stupidity In The Name Of Security
August 7, 2008 » Old & Rusty to Shiny & New, Part 1
August 3, 2008 » BarCamp RDU: Fun and Done
August 1, 2008 » BarCamp RDU in 8 hours!

July

July 14, 2008 » Let Our Congress Tweet? Who's Stopping Them?
July 14, 2008 » Using mysqldump with subqueries
July 9, 2008 » Let Our Congress Tweet? You've been had.

March

March 28, 2008 » Long Time, No See

February

February 25, 2008 » LinkedIn Mobile is Live!
February 2, 2008 » If

January

January 10, 2008 » Data Portability In A Nutshell: You Own Your Data

2007

December

December 19, 2007 » Textile, RedCloth, and MonkeyPatching
December 14, 2007 » How Quickly We Forget
December 13, 2007 » Wiimote Makes Your Screen A Canvas
December 5, 2007 » Ruby Benchmark Shootout, Round 2
December 4, 2007 » Growl for Entourage (via Applescript)
December 2, 2007 » Make Terminal.app start with a default set of windows

November

November 26, 2007 » Me @ LinkedIn.com
November 25, 2007 » My New Toy: Pentax K100D Super
November 24, 2007 » OLPC: You Know, For Kids ... Theirs *and* Yours.
November 16, 2007 » Cosco Busan, SF Bay, and Kurt Schwehr
November 12, 2007 » Post-Leopard Checklist
November 12, 2007 » RubyConf 2007 Slide Roundup
November 12, 2007 » Reading my referrer log ...
November 12, 2007 » A Mild Leopard Hangover
November 10, 2007 » Rails 101 by Peter Marklund
November 9, 2007 » It's Official: I'm a Rails Contributor
November 3, 2007 » RubyConf, Day 2: Maximizing Productivity
November 3, 2007 » RubyConf, Day 2: Essential Incompleteness in Program Modeling
November 2, 2007 » RubyConf, Day 1, 4p: Hurting Code for Fun & Profit
November 2, 2007 » RubyConf, Day 1, Plenary Part 2: Advanced Ruby Class Design
November 2, 2007 » RubyConf, Day 1, Plenary Part 1: Welcome and Beautiful Code
November 1, 2007 » Do Not Watch This While Eating or Drinking

October

October 26, 2007 » A Plethora of Rails Podcasts
October 26, 2007 » My First Rails Plugin: GenerallyUseful
October 25, 2007 » Cornplastic!
October 24, 2007 » A(nother) Blast From The Past
October 24, 2007 » An API on an API
October 9, 2007 » Live Blog: Graphing Social Patterns, Day 3, Opening the Social Graph
October 9, 2007 » TypePad 8 my homewerks.
October 9, 2007 » Live Blog: Graphing Social Patterns, Day 3, Facebook App Design: Elements of Style
October 9, 2007 » Live Blog: Graphing Social Patterns, Day 3, FB Apps with ASP.NET, Silverlight, and Popfly
October 9, 2007 » Live Blog: Graphing Social Patterns, Day 3, FB Platform, Apps, Metrics
October 9, 2007 » Live Blog: Graphing Social Patterns, Day 3, Keynote
October 8, 2007 » A Blast from the Past
October 8, 2007 » One Social Graph To Rule Them All? Not Hardly.
October 8, 2007 » Graphing Social Patterns Geek Day Tomorrow!
October 8, 2007 » The Galaxy of Identity
October 8, 2007 » Live Blog: Graphing Social Patterns, Day 2, Keynote
October 7, 2007 » Live Blog: Graphing Social Patterns, Day 1, Geek Track, Late Afternoon
October 7, 2007 » Live Blog: Graphing Social Patterns, Day 1, Geek Track, Post-Lunch
October 7, 2007 » Live Blog: Graphing Social Patterns, Day 1, Geek Track, Pre-Lunch
October 3, 2007 » Giles Channels RubyEast
October 3, 2007 » DSLs Are Our Future
October 2, 2007 » Test Helper: assert_not_valid
October 2, 2007 » Test Helper: assert_equal_multiline_text

September

September 30, 2007 » Setting Constants While Testing
September 29, 2007 » Obakucinbidwardston for President
September 25, 2007 » CDBaby.com goes back to PHP
September 11, 2007 » RailsRumble: Post Mortem Ruminations
September 10, 2007 » Economics & Fishing
September 9, 2007 » RailsRumble: It's Over.
September 8, 2007 » RailsRumble: Halfway ...
September 8, 2007 » RailsRumble: Phase 1 Complete
September 7, 2007 » RailsRumble.start!
September 7, 2007 » RailsRumble: Who's Rumbling?
September 7, 2007 » RailsRumble: Choosing the OS for VPS
September 7, 2007 » RubyConf Registration is Open
September 5, 2007 » RailsRumble: Strategy, Phase 1
September 5, 2007 » Ready to Rumble!
September 4, 2007 » 0-30% Test Coverage? That's Nothing.
September 1, 2007 » More cool tech from SIGGRAPH

August

August 31, 2007 » Thoughts on Software Testing and Rails (a little)
August 31, 2007 » Alice is Lost!
August 31, 2007 » Ms. Teen South Carolina
August 30, 2007 » The Topology of Social Networks
August 28, 2007 » DIY Upper Atmosphere Photography
August 28, 2007 » The Difficulty of Non-Technical Users
August 27, 2007 » Live! Nude! Code!
August 27, 2007 » Digging It Up with Dave Thomas
August 27, 2007 » Context Aware Image Re-Sizing
August 24, 2007 » Rails and TDD/BDD
August 22, 2007 » MIT's 'clutter detector' could cut confusion - MIT News Office
August 22, 2007 » Scripting News for 8/22/07 « Scripting News Annex
August 21, 2007 » Consistency Pays
August 21, 2007 » Rails, Oral Tradition, and Getting Started
August 21, 2007 » Beloit Mindset List for 2011 is out
August 20, 2007 » Finding Rails {Docs,Plugins,Info,Stuff}
August 17, 2007 » Changing Feeds
August 11, 2007 » ThereWolf!

July

July 31, 2007 » Decadence is ...
July 30, 2007 » Programmers == Stinky Bums
July 28, 2007 » Profiling and Optimizing Rails
July 27, 2007 » CoRaid ATA-over-Ethernet
July 19, 2007 » Sparky: The Alexa Toolbar for Firefox
July 18, 2007 » LOLCODE ... OMG!!1
July 17, 2007 » Three Observations on Reverse Engineering
July 14, 2007 » "Beta" is the Web 2.0 "In Construction Guy"
July 9, 2007 » The Next Big Thing
July 6, 2007 » Models < Drops
July 6, 2007 » Confessions of a RambleGeek
July 5, 2007 » Not Living In A Cave ...

June

June 27, 2007 » Boobs, Injuries, & Dr. Pepper
June 27, 2007 » The Circle of (typographic) Life
June 15, 2007 » SW Dev: Back to the Mac
June 14, 2007 » More Tech, Less Smarts
June 4, 2007 » A Change of Pace

May

May 29, 2007 » Radio Open Source: David Weinberger
May 19, 2007 » The Tagline Graveyard
May 17, 2007 » Sir Tony Hoare The Elegant

April

April 26, 2007 » Moleskine USB Drive
April 20, 2007 » Running the Numbers
April 20, 2007 » We Are What We Know
April 19, 2007 » Exquisite Book Desecration
April 12, 2007 » Olde Skool Web Syte

February

February 8, 2007 » How To Get My Attention

January

January 25, 2007 » Bobby McFerrin + 11
January 23, 2007 » Walgreens != Privacy
January 23, 2007 » Procrastination is ...
January 1, 2007 » Spöka-y!

2006

October

October 15, 2006 » Track My Baggage Closely, Please!
October 15, 2006 » Weak security in our daily lives@Everything2.com

September

September 5, 2006 » Chaos Theory In Practice, Part 1

July

July 15, 2006 » Meyer's Conjecture on Philosophy
July 9, 2006 » One Red Paperclip. One House. One Year.
July 9, 2006 » Hey Apple, Let Me iWander!
July 9, 2006 » Cool Blog: Creating Passionate Users

June

June 23, 2006 » Cleaning up old mail

April

April 26, 2006 » Bring Your Own Laptop To Work?
April 25, 2006 » Slowly Crawling Towards Daylight
April 25, 2006 » SHDH9 This Weekend!

March

March 29, 2006 » Panasonic's Vision of the Future: All Pixels, All The Time
March 27, 2006 » Ajaxy Homepages
March 25, 2006 » Meshing an Airport Extreme and a Linksys WRT54G
March 22, 2006 » LinkStations: NAS for the Hacking
March 22, 2006 » LiteBrite on your Fridge
March 20, 2006 » Biodegradable Food Containers
March 18, 2006 » Tiny MP3 Streaming Server
March 17, 2006 » Leaftag: Tag files and stuff in Linux
March 14, 2006 » Okay, Okay!
March 14, 2006 » Libraries as Playlists
March 14, 2006 » How To Tie Your Shoes
March 9, 2006 » OLPC: You Know, For Kids!
March 9, 2006 » Good Engineering!
March 8, 2006 » TypePad == Geek Haven